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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For as long as watches have been made, precision timekeeping has been the ultimate goal. Watchmakers have invented all manner of methods for counteracting gravity, magnetism, shock, and temperature ...

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 ...

They say that within the first seconds of meeting a person, we unconsciously use only a few basic factors to form an impression. Something similar is true of watches. What can you tell right away when ...

Christmas Day 1969: Richard Nixon is in power; the second manned Moon mission has just returned to Earth; and The Beatles are at number one in the albums chart with Abbey Road. Over in Tokyo, another ...

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 ...