Accuracy probably doesn’t play too big of a role in most peoples’ watch purchases, and while practically speaking there’s not much reason to own something hyper-accurate, there’s an ineffable coolness ...

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 ...

Let’s get one thing out of the way: a chronometer is different than a chronograph, though one can also be the other. We’ve heard the terms confused one too many times, and while we’ll forgive past ...

A wise man once wrote that watch owners always have two questions in mind about their watches: is it worth it; and, is it a good watch? He went on to say that the answer to the first question is ...

Modern-day watch buyers take precision for granted, but 240 years ago, when the British watchmaker John Arnold unveiled his seminal Chronometer No. 1/36, accuracy in a timekeeping instrument was, at ...

The watch world is full of jargon that's tough to understand. Chronometer might sound like a mouthful, but it's just a fancy word for "really, really precise watch." The word chronometer goes back to ...

In a continuation of the trend toward cool collaborations in the watch industry, Wempe, the German-based retailer and watchmaker with a store on Fifth Avenue in New York, has teamed up with acclaimed ...

The Omega Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch has received arguably the most dramatic update since the 1960s with the addition of the Caliber 3861 Master Chronometer movement. The new movement for the ...

British clockmaker John Harrison helped make marine navigation safer for sailors around the world and his 325th birthday is celebrated in today's Google Doodle. Harrison was born in Foulby, Yorkshire, ...

In the days before GPS, the accuracy of a ship’s chronometer might be a matter of life and death. Navigators used them to determine longitude by measuring the local time via a sextant and a star map, ...

In an age where accurate time measurement is taken for granted, the upcoming auction of an 1825 marine chronometer highlights just how far science has advanced in the last 200 years. The invention of ...

English clockmaker John Harrison revolutionized long distance seafaring in the 18th century, solving the problem of calculating longitude at sea and devising tools that helped sailors navigate with ...