Before it came to represent mass production and dirt-cheap watches, quartz was once upon a time a cutting-edge technology. It was expensive at first, the wave of the future, and it nearly upended an ...

Reading about watches can often feel like cracking open a textbook. Browsing—and even buying—means being barraged with inscrutable words and phrases like ”tourbillons,” “perpetual calendars,” “minute ...

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 ...