The Timepiece Journal

Five mechanical chiming watches under $3,000 — hourly strike, mechanical silence button, in-house automatic movements, numbered editions of 50–300. Real chimes from $1,499.

A meteorite dial watch is cut from a real iron meteorite. Inside the Muonionalusta — a pattern formed in space that no machine can copy, in a chiming titanium watch limited to 50 pieces.

A minute repeater is a watch that tells you the time with sound. You press a slide on the case, and it chimes the hours, the quarters, and the minutes. A chiming watch is simpler: it rings by itsel...

An inside look at the Lucky Harvey Hammer Chiming Big Date series — how the hammered dimpled dial is made, why the big date complication matters, and what separates this line from the Classic and T...

A full hands-on review of the Lucky Harvey Sound of Nature — the chime tone, the dial work, the build, the silent mode, the wrist presence, and whether it earns its position as the brand's flagship...

For most of watchmaking history, the chime was more important than the hand. Before watches had luminous hands, before pocket watches were common, and long before wristwatches existed, the ability ...