Accuracy probably doesn’t play too big of a role in most peoples’ watch purchases, and while practically speaking there’s not much reason to own something hyper-accurate, there’s an ineffable coolness ...

The watch world is full of highly technical, often highly French terms that any normal person, reasonably, doesn’t know. Welcome, then, to Horology in a Hurry, a semi-regular column where we’ll break ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. If it's troublesome and annoyingly expensive, I'm all over it. A wise man once wrote that watch owners always have two questions ...

One of Glashütte‘s most significant watches just got a refresh. The German watchmaker debuted a new version of its Senator Chronometer this week which sports a blue-and-gray color scheme chosen to ...

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 ...

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In an age where accurate time measurement is taken for granted, the upcoming auction of an 1825 marine chronometer highlights just how far science has advanced in the last 200 years. The invention of ...

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, ...

Introversion has confirmed that it's working on Channel 4 funded game called Chronometer. The Darwinia developer was approached by the UK TV channel recently and asked if it had any ideas that could ...

English clockmaker John Harrison revolutionized long distance seafaring in the 18th century, solving the problem of calculating longitude at sea and devising tools that helped sailors navigate with ...