When most people hear the word “heritage” in relation to watches, they think of Switzerland—but the best Seiko watches show why real heads know not to discount Japan. The first name holding it down ...

In the 1960s, just about every watch brand was getting into the GMT game. After Rolex launched the original GMT-Master in 1954 as the first watch to combine a rotating 24-hour bezel with a 24-hour ...

In our recent meditation on how postmodernism saved the Swiss mechanical watch industry in the 1980s, we noted that from that decade onward, recreating watches from the past (an artistic practice ...