Long scorned despite being cheaper and more accurate than their mechanical counterparts, quartz watches are finally getting some love. By Scott Cacciola Wristwatch enthusiasts can be persnickety. They ...

Too often, quartz is disregarded as a cheap, passionless way to tell time. While mechanical watches are put on a pedestal as complicated high art (and to be fair, in many cases they are), quartz is ...

Before it came to represent mass production and dirt-cheap watches, quartz was once upon a time a cutting-edge technology. It was expensive at first, the wave of the future, and it nearly upended an ...

To fully appreciate what 29-year-old master watchmaker Cameron Weiss is trying to achieve in a nondescript office park in Torrance, it’s necessary to wind the clock back for a minute — to the late ...

Reading about watches can often feel like cracking open a textbook. Browsing—and even buying—means being barraged with inscrutable words and phrases like "tourbillons,” “perpetual calendars,” “minute ...

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 ...