Quartz watches have a tiny crystal tuning fork inside that vibrates at 2^15 Hz and there's a really clever reason for that.

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Battery-powered timepieces get a bad rap among collectors, but as guest Box + Papers columnist Yang-Yi Goh argues, the wildly ...

If you were able to visualize the passage of time, it may appear as looping ribbons of color, these fragments ribboning and glinting whenever they refracted light. Researchers at the University of ...

High-purity quartz is crucial for semiconductor manufacturing, and you can only get it naturally from the mine in North Carolina.

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Writer Oren Hartov criss-crossed Japan to divine what makes the brand so special and came home with a watch for myself.

Silver protected against evil. The sun turned trolls to stone, and alchemists hunted for the stone that gave eternal life. Why have stones fascinated ...

The Skyflake, a blue-tinted spinoff of the iconic Snowflake dial, now comes in a more affordable quartz reference with a 37mm ...

From snow‑textured dials to moonlit hues, each watch reflects Japanese seasonal beauty paired with precision engineering.