Watch Education

Learn the ins and outs of all watches. Starting with the most basic education about watch parts, and moving you into detailed descriptions of how watches work.

A tachymeter on the bezel of a watch measures the speed based on time traveled over a fixed distance. The allows the conversion of elapsed time...

Starting every March and ending in November, we set our clocks forward and hour and back again....

A common watch function, particularly found on a sports watch, is the chronograph; but what is a rattrapante chronograph? ...

During periods of hot or cold weather, collectors often seek to add or reduce the effective length of a bracelet for watches so equipped....

Saturday, February 18th, Philadelphia hosted two of the Horological Society of New York's traveling education classes. The HSNY is the oldest watchmaking guild in the United States...

Frequency is one of several factors that help to predispose a watch towards a certain level of precision. In general, a higher frequency can improve the potential precision...

It really has been a fun year in the world of watchmaking, and as the landscape continues to change in terms of movement supply, we continue to see changes....