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 ...

It’s hard to beat the allure of actual military-issued watches, and those made for Britain’s armed forces are legendary. The CWC G10 was among them, and it has the distinction of being the first watch ...

Ask people in the know on watches and almost all will agree that one measure of a quality timepiece is almost always whether it has an automatic movement rather than quartz. A quartz movement gets its ...

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 ...

What is a watch movement? There’s not a straightforward answer, so we’ll use an analogy: a movement is to a watch what an engine is to a car, what a heart is to a human body, and what a decentralised ...