At a huge event today in England, home of British watch brand Bremont, the company unveils a long-awaited new bespoke "Bremont Ronnie Clock." The Bremont Ronnie Wood B1 Marine Chronometer clock is a ...

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 ...

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, ...

Flip Clock turns your iPhone into a retro-style timepiece. The $1 download mimics the old fashioned analog-digital clocks with flipping, plastic-card numbers (as seen waking up Marty McFly in the ...

The watch world is full of jargon that's tough to understand. Chronometer might sound like a mouthful, but it's just a fancy word for "really, really precise watch." The word chronometer goes back to ...

For generations, the Royal Observatory in Greenwich tested each of the British Navy’s chronometers. These precision instruments—deck clocks used to calculate longitude and thus fix a ship’s position ...

In our History of the World told through things, we've now entered the long nineteenth century - the years between the French Revolution in 1789, and the beginning of the First World War in 1914 - ...

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 ...