The watch world is full of highly technical, often highly French terms that any normal person, reasonably, doesn’t know. Welcome, then, to Horology in a Hurry, a semi-regular column where we’ll break ...

A wise man once wrote that watch owners always have two questions in mind about their watches: is it worth it; and, is it a good watch? He went on to say that the answer to the first question is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Modern-day watch buyers take precision for granted, but 240 years ago, when the British watchmaker John Arnold unveiled his seminal Chronometer No. 1/36, accuracy in a timekeeping instrument was, at ...

Tissot fits the Powermatic 80 movement into the Classic Dream line and builds a Swiss automatic watch that keeps time almost as well as watches costing twice as much. The 40mm model costs $515 on a ...

The watch world is full of jargon that's tough to understand. Chronometer might sound like a mouthful, but it's just a fancy word for "really, really precise watch." The word chronometer goes back to ...