Until recently, watches have been entirely mechanical where each wheel, gear, and mechanism representing a milestone in our understanding of precision manufacturing and timekeeping. One of the very ...

Like wedding rings and china sets, antique pocket watches often become precious family heirlooms passed down from parent to child for generations. They never lose their charm no matter how beaten and ...

When you think of money-making watches, Swiss companies like Rolex and Patek Philippe probably come to mind, but you shouldn't count the United States out just yet. Waltham watch values may vary ...

When I first started exploring vintage watches, I was surprised by how small they seemed compared to today's oversized styles. Watches from the mid-20th century often have cases around 33 to 36 mm, ...

At a Phillips auction on May 18 in Geneva, even before that Basquiat painting broke records for selling at a breathtaking $110 million, the auction house recorded another slightly less covered record ...

Springfield 016, with a movement from a 1923 Illinois Watch Company pocket watch, $4200, vorticwatches.com. When it comes to watches, the Swiss get all the glory. It wasn’t always so. Beginning in the ...

Experts say that thinking through your preferences and then checking out the market can lead to the watch of your dreams. By Victoria Gomelsky Before the 1980s, when computer-aided design and ...

When we say "vintage," we don't mean rusty antique pocket watches from a flea market. The watches we're talking about are mechanical (the kind you wind yourself), simple (you don't need to know the ...

The all-in-one device is not a new trend by any means. Whereas we’ve recently combined music players and cellphones, our great-grandfathers were tinkering with other ways of saving pocket ...