Sinclair Harding, one of the finest contemporary clockmakers in Britain, if not the world, has recreated a perfect life-size ...

Sinclair Harding, one of the greatest contemporary clockmakers in Britain, if not the world, has recreated a perfect ...

As Ulysse Nardin commemorated its 175th anniversary this year, it paid homage to its illustrious history in producing marine chronometers, a specialty that put the Swiss brand on the horological map ...

Dead reckoning” is one of the most common terms uttered by swashbuckling captains in pirate movies. In the early 1700s, it meant using primitive tools like the astrolabe and compass to chart a course ...

In the days before GPS, the accuracy of a ship’s chronometer might be a matter of life and death. Navigators used them to determine longitude by measuring the local time via a sextant and a star map, ...

(1) PROF. MILHAM tells us that for twenty years his lectures on descriptive astronomy have included the topic of time and timekeepers, and that during this period he has lost no opportunity, by ...

English clockmaker John Harrison revolutionized long distance seafaring in the 18th century, solving the problem of calculating longitude at sea and devising tools that helped sailors navigate with ...

In a continuation of the trend toward cool collaborations in the watch industry, Wempe, the German-based retailer and watchmaker with a store on Fifth Avenue in New York, has teamed up with acclaimed ...