The advent of Quartz in the early 1970s very nearly killed the Swiss luxury watch industry, because the 1,600 Swiss brands could no longer compete with the cheaper quartz watches that were flooding ...

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.

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 ...

I'm not really a fanatic when it comes to the timekeeping accuracy of sturdy Japanese automatic movements. They tend to be beaten — and beaten badly — by anything quartz. But that isn't the point.