In an age where accurate time measurement is taken for granted, the upcoming auction of an 1825 marine chronometer highlights just how far science has advanced in the last 200 years. The invention of ...

Fine watches and jewellery retailer Wempe draws on its history of creating marine chronometers in a new collaboration with British yacht designer Tim Heywood. ‘Ship chronometers are an important part ...

As Ulysse Nardin commemorated its 175th anniversary this year, it paid homage to its illustrious history in producing marine chronometers, a specialty that put the Swiss brand on the horological map ...

Arnold & Son has released a new Longitude Titanium collection, a COSC-certified chronometer with sports-chic accents and three different dial colours. Prices are yet to be confirmed, although they ...

In a continuation of the trend toward cool collaborations in the watch industry, Wempe, the German-based retailer and watchmaker with a store on Fifth Avenue in New York, has teamed up with acclaimed ...

In the days before GPS, the accuracy of a ship’s chronometer might be a matter of life and death. Navigators used them to determine longitude by measuring the local time via a sextant and a star map, ...

English clockmaker John Harrison revolutionized long distance seafaring in the 18th century, solving the problem of calculating longitude at sea and devising tools that helped sailors navigate with ...

Marine chronometers have been an ocean-going thing ever since English clockmaker John Harrison—in answer to a then-hefty £20,000 carrot from Parliament—created the H1 in 1730. His was the first ...

We wear watches to know the time… don’t we? Given that I, and many other collectors I know, have strapped a watch on in the morning and only later that afternoon realised the watch has been neither ...

Ulysse Nardin celebrates its 175th anniversary this year by imagining what a marine chronometer would look like 175 years from now. The UFO, which stands for Unidentified Floating Object, is not a ...