There are several different identification marks you ... to find the serial number engraved into the movement. You can then search the Pocket Watch Database or the tables provided by PM Time ...

The regulator of the pocket watch has now been adjusted. In some watches, there is a tiny screw below the regulator's pointer that can be adjusted with a mini screwdriver rather than physically moving ...

One of the very first watches, created by a locksmith. Today it is nearly impossible to find watchmakers to service or repair vintage mechanical pocket ... preventing the movement from running.

A pocket watch that was frozen in time when its owner went down with the Titanic will go under the hammer for £80,000. Ramon Gomez was one of 1,521 passengers who died when the ill-fated ship hit ...

Pocket watch accuracy was greatly improved when the balance spring came along. The balance spring acts like a pendulum does in a weight-driven clock to keep the gears moving at a metered pace.

Until 1870 most pocket watches were wound and set by a key. Then a gradual shift took place in winding and setting a watch. It was more convenient to wind the movement over a crown and to set the ...

These oversized “B-Uhr” watches had distinctive dials and pocket watch movements converted to central seconds. In 2002, IWC took its new automatic movement, changed it to central seconds, and revealed ...

The gold watch belonging to Mr J.J. Astor sold for £900,000 A gold pocket watch worn by the wealthiest passenger on the Titanic has sold for six times the asking price, fetching £900,000.