Many have perhaps heard the term “chronometer” or seen the words “Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified” cluttering up a Rolex dial without fully understanding it. What does it mean, exactly?

It’s not generally well-known that Mido is actually one of the top 5 brands producing the most COSC-certified watches, but there you have it — the 100-year-old company consistently delivers highly ...

Modern-day watch buyers take precision for granted, but 240 years ago, when the British watchmaker John Arnold unveiled his seminal Chronometer No. 1/36, accuracy in a timekeeping instrument was, at ...

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 ...

We go hands-on with the new Brellum Pandial Power Reserve Black Titanium LE Chronometer ✓ A stealthy titanium chronograph ✓ ...

Omega marks 20 years of Planet Ocean excellence with a bold, ground-up redesign of its flagship diving collection. The fourth ...

To mark the 60th anniversary of its first great technological breakthrough, Century unveils Mastersphere, a rebirth of the ...

The Omega Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch has received arguably the most dramatic update since the 1960s with the addition of the Caliber 3861 Master Chronometer movement. The new movement for the ...

In the days before GPS, the accuracy of a ship’s chronometer might be a matter of life and death. Navigators used them to determine longitude by measuring the local time via a sextant and a star map, ...

One of Glashütte‘s most significant watches just got a refresh. The German watchmaker debuted a new version of its Senator Chronometer this week which sports a blue-and-gray color scheme chosen to ...

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