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The new operators of a historic market have announced it will launch augmented reality darts and a cocktail bar and deli as work inside continues.

The most complicated timepieces — the ones that can predict future leap years and trace astronomical phenomena — also happen to be some of the most beautiful

✓ Switzerland is the watchmaking capital of the world ✓ But how come? ✓ What made the Swiss to good at watchmaking? ✓ Read it here! ✓

Watch, portable timepiece that has a movement driven either by spring or by electricity and that is designed to be worn or carried in the pocket. The first watches appeared shortly after 1500, early examples being made by Peter Henlein, a locksmith in Nürnberg, Ger. The escapement used in the early watches was the same as that used in the early clocks, the verge. Early watches were made notably in Germany and at Blois in France, among other countries, and were generally carried in the hand or...

The George Daniels Anniversary Platinum No.00 is the talking watch of the Phillips New York Watch Auction on 11-12 June.

Complications, Simplified: Minute Repeaters: Invented out of necessity, chiming watches are now the ultimate luxury for watch collectors.

Complications, Simplified: The Perpetual Calendar: How watchmakers programmed mechanical devices centuries before the advent of the computer.

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ADVERTISEMENT In a story we ran not long ago about a new watch from Ming – the 20.11 Mosaic – there was an interesting comment, to the effect that the watch represented creative watch design, not creative watchmaking. The comment got me thinking about what exactly constitutes creative watchmaking these days, and where the line is between the two. Watchmaking, to state the screamingly obvious, is the making of watches – and a watch is more than the movement. The design of the case, dial, a...

10 Modern Pocket Watches You Can Wear in 2021 SPY 2/22/2021 © Product Photo Courtesy of Amazon Pocket watches, once a staple of a gentleman’s wardrobe, are making a comeback. Maybe it’s the cottagecore movement, or that fashion truism that everything old is new again, but pocket watches have become more than a novelty item or a groomsman gift. If you’re interested in collecting the best men’s watches, you can’t ignore the best pocket watches any longer. But what exactly constitute...