Most automatic watches wind themselves via a weighted rotor, which you’ll be able to see if your watch has a see-through case back (it’s the half moon-shaped piece right on top). When you wear the ...

It includes watch companies that make their own movements in-house and artisans that make delicate, complicated movements by hand for watches that probably only belong in a safe or museum. There are ...

Seiko Watch Movements Seiko is a watchmaking behemoth that competes toe-to-toe with the Swiss. Its movements include simple but robust automatics found in its entry- and mid-level watches, the ...

Manufacture Royale Androgyne Royale. A watchmaker skeletonizes a watch by carving away the metal from the bridges and plates to the bare bones, revealing the tiny gears and levers that make a ...

Quartz or manual-wound movements used to be the only option for small watches, but now brands such as Bulgari, Piaget and Chopard are putting automatic mechanisms in them.

The openmovement foundation is a case in point– a watch case, to be specific. The “movement” in Openmovement is a fully open-source and fully mechanical watch movement.

Professional watchmaker Ryan Jewell breaks down two different Carpenter watches; one watch with Japanese movement and another with Swiss movement.

Luxury Watches How does a tourbillon movement work? All you need to know about the watch movement designed to defy gravity When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

However, a well-designed movement includes jewels only where needed: the purpose is to extend your watch’s life between servicing, preventing wear and tear in areas under constant stress.

Welcome to Watch Guy Watches, GQ’s monthly curation of high-end timepieces for the true watch nerds among us. This August, star watchmaker Vianney Halter teams up with Massena LAB, Vacheron drops a ...