The watch industry is ticking away in Switzerland, where masters work with pieces the size of poppyseeds to hand make timepieces that retail for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“Why am I making a watch?” asked Adnane Kerd, the founder of Guebly. “For me, it was not enough to collect.” By Anders Modig Davin Imagine you are a collector who cannot find the watch you want. In ...

Time flies. And waits for no one. And once lost, is never found. Yet still we try to keep time, and measure it. Let the French, Germans, and British fight over who invented the wearable clock, or ...

There are plenty of hard jobs out there, like founding your country’s nuclear program, or changing the timing chain on a BMW diesel. Making your own mechanical watch from scratch falls under that ...

Considering the wearable technology available to us today, it’s amazing to think there was a time when you had to manually reset the calendar on your digital watch each month if you wanted it to stay ...