Grand Seiko, for example, has an exceptional quartz movement known as the Caliber 9F. Citizen has the light-powered Caliber ... He still wears automatic watches about “90 per cent of the time”, he ...

Mechanical movements can be hand-wound or self-wound via your wrist's motion during wear, which is known as "automatic" — a different thing, entirely, than quartz movements.

Grand Seiko, for example, has an exceptional quartz movement known as the Caliber 9F. ... He still wears automatic watches about “90 percent of the time,” he said, ...

Quartz or manual-wound movements used to be the only option for small watches, but now brands such as Bulgari, Piaget and Chopard are putting automatic mechanisms in them.

The magic figure for a quartz movement is 32,768. That’s the number of times a quartz vibrates, per second, when subjected to electricity. It’s also known as 32.768KHz, or kilohertz.

Automatic movements are the most convenient option for everyday watches, yet they are large, and women’s watches have thus lingered in the realm of quartz. Until now. Here are four watches with ...

The magic figure for a quartz movement is 32,768. That’s the number of times a quartz vibrates, per second, when subjected to electricity. It’s also known as 32.768KHz, or kilohertz.

The automatic movement, which most sources believe was invented around the 1770s, is almost exactly the same as its manual counterpart. The only difference is how it’s powered.

An automatic version of a historically quartz military watch makes for a bit of a conundrum for watch enthusiasts who tend to value mechanical movements but also historical authenticity. Of course, ...

Most of the Swiss automatic movements used these days are sourced from the Swiss behemoth, ETA, a subsidiary of the Swatch Group. ETA was born of the quartz crisis in the 1970s and ’80s, a product of ...