Today, we’re going to break down eight watch chimes that encompass hourly, quarterly, and down-to-the-minute repetition.

During a time when digital watches had almost fully usurped mechanical wristwatches (the 1980s), having a proto-wristwatch involved in this sequel is a fantastic horological detail.

The world of watches has a new champion in terms of auction price. That’s right, after about 5 years of dominance, someone has knocked Patek Phillippe’s Henry Graves Supercomplication out of the top spot.

Omega’s Ultra Deep watch has taken wristwatches to new depths with its recent trip down the Challenger Deep portion of the Mariana Trench.

One particular patron of finer timepieces is an unlikely one—the current (14th) Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatzo. Ahead, we’re going to highlight a few of these holy horological pieces and touch lightly on their individual significance.

While McDonald’s was dropping the price of their beloved Big Mac down to just one dollar (for a limited time) for their 50th anniversary, merchandising was going ballistic. One of the best (yet cringiest) pieces of merchandising to come out of this anniversary was the Casio “Big Mac” watch.

How did Sears go from selling a few watches to making up 1% of the United State’s GDP? Let's explore that answer together.

China never truly had their own watch industry until quite recently. With an industry that started by bringing in watches from Switzerland, the Chinese government would eventually commission Chinese-made watches.

Today, we’ll be touching on the building blocks that lead to Swatch’s powerful status in the modern watch industry.

Trusting advertisements can be tricky. But well-established brands like Seiko and Bulova continue to put out quality work en-masse. They were there at ground zero as the horological industry met mass global communication.