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

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Ronda Courtesy When you see a Swiss watch with a quartz movement, there’s a good chance that movement was made by Ronda (ETA is also a big producer of quartz movements). Though the company is best ...

Automatic movements are the most convenient option for everyday watches, yet they are large, and women’s watches have thus lingered in the realm of quartz. Until now. Here are four watches with ...

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.