WRISTWATCH enthusiasts can be persnickety. They often have strong opinions about whether bezels should be bidirectional. They can cite the differences between ETA and Sellita movements. They will ...

A smoothly sweeping seconds hand is often used by a budding watch fancier as an indicator of quality. If you are close enough to tell the time, you can see whether the hand ticks once per second, or ...

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 ...

Watch collectors have strong feelings about quartz versus mechanical watches: Battery-powered quartz is inexpensive, accurate and robust, but it lacks the je ne sais quoi of an electricity-free ...

The watch industry has undergone gradual but important change over its centuries-long history, and a big part of that change has to do with the thing that makes your timepiece tick. For many decades — ...

There’s every chance the all-time grail watch on your radar is a quartz one, which means at some point a watch battery is going to need to be replaced. Whether it’s a vintage battery-powered steal you ...