We spend a lot of time at T3 drooling over the beautiful complexity of automatic mechanical watches. But that doesn’t mean the humble quartz should be forgotten about. Quartz watches are far cheaper ...

There are plenty of hard jobs out there, like founding your country’s nuclear program, or changing the timing chain on a BMW diesel. Making your own mechanical watch from scratch falls under that ...

Quartz watches have a tiny crystal tuning fork inside that vibrates at 2^15 Hz and there's a really clever reason for that.

In today’s hectic fast-paced world, where most things are built simply for convenience and speed, it’s quite easy to forget ...

Fans of mechanical watch engineering, this one’s for you. People love watches for various reasons. But anyone who digs in deep finds an appreciation for the technical intricacies and for preserving a ...

Why would a watch collector need or want to understand the notoriously vague and confusing concept of postmodernism? To understand postmodernism, we must first understand modernism. In the late 1800s, ...

The right watch can become the defining piece of any outfit, but you don't even need to shell out millions of dollars for one of the most expensive watches ever sold. Even a stunning luxury watch ...

Mechanical timepieces, including vintage models, keep these shops busy. By David Belcher Reporting from Seoul Lee Byung Ken stared at the guts of a Patek Philippe watch through a loupe held against ...