Solar-powered watches have been around as a technology since the mid-1970s, when Japanese electronics whizzes made it ...
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. By Carol Besler Automatic ...
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What is a quartz watch and how do they work?
We spend a lot of time at T3 drooling over the beautiful complexity of automatic mechanical watches. But that doesn’t mean the humble quartz should be forgotten about. Quartz watches are far cheaper ...
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 ...
Thomas goes hands-on with the Citizen Challenge Timer "Tsuno" chronograph ✓ A quartz-powered 1970s Bullhead throwback ✓ ...
For as long as watches have been made, precision timekeeping has been the ultimate goal. Watchmakers have invented all manner of methods for counteracting gravity, magnetism, shock, and temperature ...
Breitling bolts tradition with its new in-house quartz movement. Like dozens of other Swiss watch company executives who made similar announcements this year, Breitling senior vice president Jean-Paul ...
Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a biweekly column highlighting important or little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the Beta 21 quartz movement. A ...
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