As smartwatches become more widely adopted, a burgeoning new segment of watches– the so-called hybrid smartwatch — has emerged to combine the traditional elements of analog watches with the digital ...
A recent story by Fast Company reported that, despite the ubiquity of smartphones and smartwatches, “old school watches are back in vogue and millennials are leading the way.” Specifically, ...
Zenith has re-engineered the mechanical watch movement by inventing a new single-piece oscillator that replaces the traditional hairspring/balance wheel assembly. It oscillates at a frequency ...
When we talk about wristwatches, the primary thing we focus on is how the watch looks. Which is fair, because that’s the primary reason why one buys a watch—we can tell the time easily and accurately ...
Fancy Swiss watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre has released a couple of new squillion-dollar, super tiny timepieces – the Snowdrop and the Bangle – featuring a 91-year-old mechanical movement that's still ...
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 ...
Chances are good that if you’re a regular Robb Report reader, you already know the answer to that question: Yes, mechanical watches are inferior, compared to their quartz counterparts, with respect to ...
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 ...