The Timepiece Journal

You spent real money on an automatic watch. Now you want it to last. The good news is that mechanical watches are built to run for decades — some for generations — if you treat them with basic resp...

If you’ve spent time looking at luxury watches from Chinese makers, you’ve noticed something Western watch brands rarely do: they put zodiac animals on the dial. Dragons, snakes, tigers, rabbits, h...

If you're shopping for a roulette watch you've probably noticed there are two types of dial out there: one with 37 numbers and a single green zero, and one with 38 numbers and both a zero and a dou...

The chiming automaton horse watch is the most mechanically ambitious thing Lucky Harvey makes. It also generates more questions than any other piece in the catalog: how does the horse move, what ma...

Most luxury watches are designed to blend in. A clean dive watch on a steel bracelet looks the same to anyone who isn't a collector, and the people who do notice it are nodding politely from across...

For most of the 20th century, enamel watch dials were dying. The craft was difficult, the failure rate was brutal, and printed dials could imitate the look at a fraction of the cost. By the 1980s, ...

A roulette watch is one of those purchases where the difference between a great one and a regrettable one comes down to details most buyers don't know to ask about. Is the wheel spinning, or just p...

If you've just unboxed your first automatic watch, you have probably noticed it isn't running. That is normal. Automatic watches ship from the factory with the mainspring at zero so they don't lose...

Limited editions are the most exciting and most dangerous corner of the watch world. Done right, a numbered run of 100 to 500 pieces can become a collector's grail and appreciate steadily for years...