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Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a biweekly column highlighting important or little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the Beta 21 quartz movement. A ...

Without the invention of the quartz movement, the world of luxury watches wouldn’t be where it is today. That’s an odd thing to say, given that it was the arrival of mass-produced quartz watches, far ...

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 ...

The affordable titanium timepiece puts the Japanese brand squarely in the consideration set for budding collectors.

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 ...

Long scorned despite being cheaper and more accurate than their mechanical counterparts, quartz watches are finally getting some love. By Scott Cacciola Wristwatch enthusiasts can be persnickety. They ...

Quartz watches were invented by Seiko in 1969 and almost brought about the death of mechanical watches in the Seventies, thanks to their cheap means of manufacture. Quartz movements have a battery and ...

Christmas Day 1969: Richard Nixon is in power; the second manned Moon mission has just returned to Earth; and The Beatles are at number one in the albums chart with Abbey Road. Over in Tokyo, another ...

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 ...