Articles related to "Watchmaking"

Thanks to Jean Calvin, the painstaking craft of Swiss watchmaking was born, bearing collector aficion, a Geneva Seal and watch industry chauvinism in its glamorous wake.

The work of creating by hand the component parts of a watch, especially its movement, is painstaking. Here's a basic look at the process of making watch parts.

A watch "complication" is a watch function that does anything other than relay the time. For aficionados of high-end watches, the more complicated, the better.

These highly collectible pocket watches were manufactured in Canton, Ohio and are prized among watch collectors.