The first auction, which took place on 15 December, paid homage to “David Ramsay and the First Clockmaker’s Court” and was composed of 97 pocket watches representative of the era following the death ...

More than any other collaboration in Hublot’s folio, Arsham’s feels the closest to true art—pocket watches, after all, have ...

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 and wristwatches, so we have to do it ourselves.

As far back as the Second Boer War of 1899-1902, soldiers modified their pocket watches with wire lugs soldered to the case and attached to primitive leather wrist straps. In converting the pocket ...

A tourbillon (French for "whirlwind") is a centuries-old mechanism built inside some of the world's most expensive watches. It was originally designed to improve the accuracy of pocket watches by ...

They do however have a rather impressive history in watchmaking, the likes of which dates back to 1837. Masters of innovation, Tiffany recognised that the popularity of pocket watches had the ...