This limited edition Grand Seiko SBGP017 quartz watch proves that precision, beauty, and craftsmanship don’t belong ...

The “quartz crisis,” brought on by the popularity of battery-powered watches, was severely impacting the Swiss economy and it felt hard to see mechanical watches ever making a comeback.

“For Swiss mechanical manufacturers to create smartwatches is nearly impossible,” he says. At the top end of Swiss watch making, however, the question is reassuringly academic for the large ...

While the world goes digital, Rolex stays mechanical—and unstoppable, proving that heritage and precision still matter.

while a mechanical watch’s will sweep continuously (usually). Rolex’s relationship with the technology dates back to the early ’60s, when it joined a group of 20 Swiss brands (the “CEH”) to develop a ...

While Swiss watch exports have halved since 2000 to ... Today, ETA designs and produces movements, which are the engines that ...

The swiss lead the way in post-war wrist watch ... Most of the time when you buy a broken mechanical watch all it needs is to be cleaned and oiled. But this is not as easy as it seems, you must ...