Long scorned despite being cheaper and more accurate than their mechanical counterparts, quartz watches are finally getting some love. By Scott Cacciola Wristwatch enthusiasts can be persnickety. They ...

Quartz or manual-wound movements used to be the only option for small watches, but now brands such as Bulgari, Piaget and Chopard are putting automatic mechanisms in them. By Carol Besler Automatic ...

Too often, quartz is disregarded as a cheap, passionless way to tell time. While mechanical watches are put on a pedestal as complicated high art (and to be fair, in many cases they are), quartz is ...

Timex has introduced two new Pan Am x Waterbury GMT watches, offering buyers a choice between quartz and automatic movements.

Tissot has added a quartz chronograph to its PRX collection. Here is everything to know about the new 41 mm watch, its three ...

In 1993, Grand Seiko debuted it’s Caliber 9F, arguably one of the greatest quartz movements ever made, retaining all of the technical goodies that make quartz movements accurate while adding high-end ...

Quartz watches were invented by Seiko in 1969 and almost brought about the death of mechanical watches in the Seventies, thanks to their cheap means of manufacture. Quartz movements have a battery and ...

The story of the mechanical timepiece has always been one of relentless progress towards accuracy, usually by tiny, gradual increments. From Christiaan Huygens’ first watch to the observatory tests of ...

This is an edition of the newsletter Box + Papers, Cam Wolf’s weekly deep dive into the world of watches. Sign up here. It’s Hot Take Month here on Box + Papers, with a new guest writer dropping by ...

What makes a good dive watch? We examine water resistance, rotating bezels, legibility and how traditional dive watches fit ...

Reading about watches can often feel like cracking open a textbook. Browsing—and even buying—means being barraged with inscrutable words and phrases like ”tourbillons,” “perpetual calendars,” “minute ...