Don’t listen to all the pretentious watch snobs out there: you don’t need to spend a lot of money for a decent watch. At under $100 you can still get satisfying, attractive, robust time-tellers that ...
Too often, quartz is disregarded as a cheap, passionless way to tell time. While mechanical watches are put on a pedestal as complicated high art (and to be fair, in many cases they are), quartz is ...
For as long as watches have been made, precision timekeeping has been the ultimate goal. Watchmakers have invented all manner of methods for counteracting gravity, magnetism, shock, and temperature ...
A lot of watches under a hundred bucks make you choose between looking good and being practical. Dress watches tend to lack water resistance, and sport watches rarely have the finish to wear with ...
Now, Hamilton is back with 12 new variations of the Khaki Field Quartz, all which hold up the company’s reputation for creating precise, innovative, yet restrained pieces. Each new addition to the ...
Want more insider watch coverage? Get Box + Papers, GQ's newsletter devoted to the watch world, sent to your inbox every Friday. Sign up here. We watch nerds tend to think of mechanical movements as ...
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 ...
It may sound like some sort of horological joke, but a quartz timepiece was just snapped up for more than half a million dollars at auction. This specific Élégante was designed by François-Paul Journe ...
Originally published by Joe Thompson on Hodinkee. The first salvo of the quartz watch revolution was fired in the last week of the 1960s. On December 25, in Tokyo, Seiko introduced the Astron, the ...