Timex wasn’t the first watchmaker to reframe quartz as something cool and interesting, but it has been the most successful. The Q doesn’t take itself too seriously.

These days, quartz watches are by far the most affordable kinds of analog watches. Many storied watch brands like Timex, Swatch and of course, Seiko, rely heavily on quartz for their watches.

QUICK SUMMARY Timex's new, vintage motorsport-themed Marlin Quartz Chronograph is available in three colour ways. It's priced at £165 and available from 18th February.

The watch was originally created as a response to the quartz crisis of the 1970s, when affordable quartz watch production raised questions about the future of the mechanical watch industry. It ...

The Q Timex (or Timex Q, if you prefer) is an unlikely hype phenomenon that helped make quartz timekeeping cool again after a decade of disparagement. The collection keeps growing and evolving with a ...