The tourbillon’s patent was filed exactly 220 years ago, in 1801. Nowadays, the tourbillon has two faces – its purest, traditional form, ...
It’s a time-honored tradition to give your graduate a gift that honors their achievement. If you ask any of us at WatchBox, a watch alway...
Hopefully, having ‘Watches & Wonders’ take place wholly online is only a temporary measure until the end of the pandemic. Despite the...
On the obnoxiously long list of watch complications out there, few are as obscure and underappreciated as the deadbeat seconds. I myself ...
The moonphase complication (or moon phase, depending on who/what you’re reading on any given day) is an interesting one to dig into when ...
People have always had a long history with tracking time. Sundials and water clocks were used to track the passing of time before the fir...
In the 1930s, watchmaking was all about round watches, containing round movements, intended for the chic soirées of the interwar period. ...
A popular complication found on watches is some aspect of a calendar function. This can be as simple as a date, or day-date, but can get ...
When looking at purchasing a watch, knowing what kind of movement you want is a good place to start. You should distinguish between diffe...
Watches can be another way for women to express fashion choices outside of what we may see as “traditional jewelry.” They can be a statem...
There are certain categories of watches that many of us grew accustomed to connecting with particular social or professional activities, ...
This holiday season, we’re celebrating the community that surrounds every collector; the bonds shared across generations, between friends...
While steel, titanium, platinum, and all the shades of gold are par for the course in modern watchmaking, alternative metals, alloys, com...
Watchmaking’s Most Highly Contended Category The term “less is more” does not always apply to the world of boundary pushing cutting-edge ...
As much as I enjoy reporting on the latest news from the watch industry, both good and bad, I always enjoy it when stories like this roll...
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