Springfield 016, with a movement from a 1923 Illinois Watch Company pocket watch, $4200, vorticwatches.com. When it comes to watches, the Swiss get all the glory. It wasn’t always so. Beginning in the ...

The features, designs and clockwork of modern mechanical timepieces are part of a lineage that stretches back hundreds of years. But most wristwatches today are a mere echo of an idealized past, a ...

Like wedding rings and china sets, antique pocket watches often become precious family heirlooms passed down from parent to child for generations. They never lose their charm no matter how beaten and ...

In April of 2024, an American pocket watch owned by John Jacob Astor IV—who died when the Titanic sank in April 1912—hammered for nearly $1.5 million, making it the most expensive piece of ephemera ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has added a gold pocket watch to its collections that once belonged to Julius Rosenwald (1862–1932), a philanthropist and businessman who made his ...

Spine title: Vol. 1: Pocket watch encyclopedia; Vol. 2: Illinois. "Boston, Nashua, Aurora, Hampden, New York, Columbus, South Bend, Seth Thomas, American Waltham."--V ...