Seiko transferred a key feature from the affordable, divisive solar-quartz Speedtimer collection to its prestigious automatic ...

With three watches packing three different movements, all inspired by one legendary rally car, Seiko has every watch fan ...

No longer carrying as much of a stigma, quartz has found an audience among collectors who, until recently, never could have fathomed slapping anything other than mechanical watches onto their wrists.

Mecha-quartz: This new hybrid movement has become popular among micro-brands making chronographs. It combines elements of a quartz and automatic movement.

Eventually, it drove further innovation: in 1969, this sparked Zenith, the Heuer-Breitling-Hamilton group, and Seiko all to rush to stuff a chronograph into a watch with an automatic movement.

This model comes in two sizes, the quartz 36mm and automatic 43mm, both with 1000 feet (300m) of water resistance, as the name indicates. In addition to its size and movement, the 43mm version has ...