The Timepiece Journal

Three movement types power virtually every watch made today: automatic, manual wind, and quartz. Each has loyal fans and angry critics. Each is genuinely best at something and genuinely bad at some...

Buying a gift for a poker player is harder than it should be. Cards, chips, and books all eventually go in a drawer. A bottle of bourbon disappears in a weekend. A luxury watch, on the other hand, ...

A skull on a luxury watch dial is one of the oldest traditions in watchmaking and also one of the most misunderstood. Worn well, a skull watch is a reference to centuries of memento mori art and a ...

If you have spent any time around luxury watch marketing you have seen the word 'tourbillon' attached to a price tag that does not seem to make any sense. Tourbillon watches are frequently ten, twe...

Case color is one of the first decisions a watch buyer makes and one of the least discussed seriously. Magazines talk endlessly about movements and complications. They rarely tell you that the sing...

The piece of glass over your watch dial matters more than almost any other single component. It takes every bump, every sleeve scrape, every door frame. Get it right and you can wear a watch hard f...

Three years ago, if you walked into a watch collector forum and said you were buying a watch with a roulette wheel on the dial, you would have been politely shown the door. Today that same watch is...

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 ...

The $2,000 mark is the most interesting price point in the watch world right now. Below it, you’re still paying largely for the movement and the case. Above it, you start paying for brand, advertis...