Decades after the cheap, reliable movement shook the industry to its core, enthusiasts are giving these luxurious, collectible timepieces a second look For watch nerds, any timepiece worth collecting ...

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 ...

Around the middle of the 1980s, well-known watch brands began collaborating with high-end fashion labels – a move which "marked a new phase of the quartz watch revolution of the 1970s", says Joe ...

Favre Leuba is one of Swirtzerland’s oldest watch brands, yet in the ’70s it was on the forefront of the quartz revolution when it utilized the calibre 352. This quartz movement, developed by Girard ...

We spend a lot of time at T3 drooling over the beautiful complexity of automatic mechanical watches. But that doesn’t mean the humble quartz should be forgotten about. Quartz watches are far cheaper ...

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 ...

Frequent readers of this column may have noted that this correspondent has been cautious in his estimation of the threat to the traditional watch market from wearables technology. As I have written ...

Reviled by some but embraced by many more, these often-affordable marvels represent a massive swath of the watch world. Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire's weekly column bringing you horological ...

For watch nerds, any timepiece worth collecting is usually the mechanical kind. The watches so many aficionados have gravitated toward over the past decade and a half have been tough, utilitarian ...