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 ...

Long scorned despite being cheaper and more accurate than their mechanical counterparts, quartz watches are finally getting some love. By Scott Cacciola Wristwatch enthusiasts can be persnickety. They ...

No matter how broad the watch market can seem, there are two distinct types of timepiece: digital and analogue. These can also be referred to as having a quartz movement (digital) or a mechanical ...

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 ...

A smoothly sweeping seconds hand is often used by a budding watch fancier as an indicator of quality. If you are close enough to tell the time, you can see whether the hand ticks once per second, or ...

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 ...

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 ...