Reading about watches can often feel like cracking open a textbook. Browsing—and even buying—means being barraged with inscrutable words and phrases like "tourbillons,” “perpetual calendars,” “minute ...

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 ...

Marine chronometers were used in the 18th century to aid navigation. Sailors used them to determine longitude by comparing Greenwich Mean Time and the time at the current location by reading the night ...

In the early days of sailing, it was extremely challenging for ships to determine their position at sea once they lost sight of land. Their navigation methods didn’t account for environmental factors ...

For generations, the Royal Observatory in Greenwich tested each of the British Navy’s chronometers. These precision instruments—deck clocks used to calculate longitude and thus fix a ship’s position ...

Sitting in the saloon of a large yacht, an elaborately built, modern marine chronometer like the sculptural Atlantis Orbis by German clockmaker Erwin Sattler perfectly complements the maritime setting ...

The word “chronometer” carries a lot of weight on the dial of a mechanical watch. It’s a guarantee that the watch has been certified by a third party to meet certain rigorous accuracy standards, ...

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 ...

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