Welcome to Watchword, a series in which we break down key terminology to help you better understand the lay of the horological land. In this entry, we examine the history of the chronometer, the ...

Silicon has arisen in the last several years as a wonder material in watchmaking. First utilized in an escapement by independent watchmaker Ulysse Nardin in 2001, the material has surfaced in ...

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 ...

The brand-new FB 1L Chronometer, which displays the age and phases of the moon taken as two measurements, enable this watch to offer the moon-age accuracy needed for actual astronomical use. Shown in ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This really shouldn’t be an opinion essay. It should be a simple lesson on accurate definitions and precise usage of the terms ...

We wear watches to know the time… don’t we? Given that I, and many other collectors I know, have strapped a watch on in the morning and only later that afternoon realised the watch has been neither ...

It’s even become the norm among high-minded watch technicians. When I bring these terms up with them, they dismiss my concerns as those of an obsessive wordsmith. I feel like a scowling, Dickensian ...