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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Once in a while, you just want to read a good war story, and we have one today. Last week we received an original Hamilton Model 21 marine chronometer, perhaps the most famous timepiece of World War ...

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 ...

Ulysse Nardin celebrates its 175th anniversary this year by imagining what a marine chronometer would look like 175 years from now. The UFO, which stands for Unidentified Floating Object, is not a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This instrument is a specialized ...