Watchmaking doesn’t feel like the most 21st century profession. The job requires unwavering patience and a delicate touch, with watchmakers taking months or even years to create a single timepiece.

My mom recently gave me the watch my grandfather wore much of his adult life. Some of my memories of him were wearing that watch and playing mahjong as I would quietly observe. Timepieces, like humans ...

Ever since watches began bringing order to the ephemeral passage of time, they also started doing something else: breaking. Own one long enough and something will probably go wrong. It'll run slow. Or ...

It is these small, high-end independent watchmakers we are celebrating here, the masters of the craft, design, tools, and technology that drive today’s high horology. From well-known masters like ...

Watchmaker Joshua Shapiro gripped the machine’s worn handle with his left hand and exhaled. Standing at the helm of the 100-year-old “rose engine,” he peered through a microscope at a small, square ...

Stoll & Co. started over 43 years ago in Dayton, Ohio as a one-man business. In 2024, 40 watchmakers tend to the needs of their customers while a large support staff of 20 people perform ...

A journey through Switzerland’s ‘Watch Valley’ offers travelers a rare insight into how this complicated craft is alive–and ticking–in the Jura mountains. Visitors to Switzerland‘s “Watch Valley” can ...

There’s change afoot in the watchmaking world, and TAG Heuer is leading the charge. At Geneva Watch Days 2025, the brand debuted a new hairspring (the spring in a watch attached to the balance wheel ...