How-To

The easiest way to tell if a watch has radium hands and is radioactive is to pick up a Geiger counter. This tells you if it's radioactive.

The Casio F-91W is, famously, the only watch worn by Osama and Obama. As a beater it can't be beat an, as David Tinarenco writes, it's even better if you…

6 Steps to buying vintage watches

Desk-diving marks on a clasp are the bane of existence for a watch owner. There's an answer, and what it is will surprise you! (It took effort to write that…

I recently returned from a week photographing the annual conference of American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute (AWCI). I was there to teach photography and get images of the event that has been…

This amazing video shows two Rolexen side-by-side. One is real, one isn't. The trick? The fake looks almost as good as the real one. Knock-off manufacturing has gotten amazingly good…

Hello and welcome back (I hope) Watching the Web, our weekly installment where we highlight interesting watches related articles from other sites, and point out own more popular articles over…

  Then again, perhaps you need to fix your watch because you broke it in the first place by taking it apart to see how things worked. At least, I…

  So, you just got yourself a mechanical watch (or perhaps you"re angling to get one tomorrow) - how do you take care of this little machine?  And make no…

I always had a sneaking suspicion that I was doing something horrible to my watches by wearing them in water and now I know: almost nothing under the sun is…