Railroad pocket watches were working safety tools, not luxury accessories. Engineers, conductors, and other operating ...

Springfield 016, with a movement from a 1923 Illinois Watch Company pocket watch, $4200, vorticwatches.com. When it comes to watches, the Swiss get all the glory. It wasn’t always so. Beginning in the ...

Ben Shoppe has carved a niche in the fine jewelry world with timeless pieces that are meant for real life, including their new charms. Senior Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent ...

A British-made pocket watch, which took four years to make, has smashed a world record - after fetching $2.7 million at auction. The timepiece, packed with moon phases, an alarm and a thermometer, was ...

The features, designs and clockwork of modern mechanical timepieces are part of a lineage that stretches back hundreds of years. But most wristwatches today are a mere echo of an idealized past, a ...