‘Watches’

Fashion Accessory Supreme

Once watches were only expected to tell the time accurately. Horologists spent centuries perfecting reliable, accurate, durable watches that could be carried around.

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The Modern Watch

Once upon a time the major goal for watchmakers was to make an accurate, reliable timepiece.

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Pocket Watches vs Wristwatches

Fashions change. For a hundred years or more, pocket watches were the only alternative. They were everywhere, worn by railroad conductors, stock brokers and fathers.

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The Horologer’s Craft

The practice of measuring time goes back thousands of years. The most obvious example is noting the change of the seasons and the repetition of day followed by night, over and over.

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Contemporary Watches

Very few people really need a watch today – yet they continue to sell like iPods. Cell phones, computers, TV set boxes and just about anyplace in public will have something to tell you the current time.

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Analog Watches

For centuries there were no ‘analog’ timepieces, only clocks and (later) watches. The word was born when digital (usually electronic) watches came into being.

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Digital Watches

The dividing line may not be laser sharp, but there are traditionalists who prefer an analog watch and moderns who go for digital.

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Battery-Less Watches

The overwhelming majority of contemporary watches are electronic. For many years now they’ve required batteries to power their functions.

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Water Resistant Watches

Many manufacturers stamp the back, and tout in advertisements, that a particular watch is ‘water resistant’, followed by a number. But what does that mean?

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Diving Watches

Anyone who enjoys scuba diving will soon enough want to look into getting a diving watch.

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Vintage Watches

Watchmaking today has reached the pinnacle of efficiency. Even complex watches can be had for little money, and they tell time down to the microsecond.

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Watches as Collectibles

Watches have become an utility, sometimes a fashion statement. No longer truly essential – thanks to the ubiquity of cell phones, computers, public clocks – they are desired for more than just telling the current time.

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Bulova, An American Legend

Since its founding in 1875 by 23-year-old Bohemian immigrant Joseph Bulova, the company has produced some of the world’s finest watches.

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Cartier, The Jewel of Watchmakers

The name Cartier has been associated with the very finest in watches for over a hundred years, and with fine objects for fifty years before that.

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Hamilton, An American Original

Founded in 1892, Hamilton began its dedication to care and quality by taking nearly two years to produce its first watch. It was a hit.

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Timex, American Success Story

Beginning in the 1850s as the Waterbury Clock Company, Timex has grown into the world’s largest supplier of watches on the planet.

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The Pulsar, World’s First Digital Watch

In these days of atomic-clock regulated radio watches, the ability to maintain accuracy to within three seconds per month may not seem very impressive.

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Rolex, Poseidon of Watchmakers

The Rolex watch company has for a hundred years been at the pinnacle of timepiece manufacturing.

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Replica and Counterfeit Watches

A good Rolex can cost anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars or more.

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How To Make A (Precise) Watch

Ok, let’s admit it. No one can show you how to make a watch in a single article.

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