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 ...

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, ...

“Dead reckoning” is one of the most common terms uttered by swashbuckling captains in pirate movies. In the early 1700s, it meant using primitive tools like the astrolabe and compass to chart a course ...

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 ...

Once in a while, you just want to read a good war story, and we have one today. Last week we received an original Hamilton Model 21 marine chronometer, perhaps the most famous timepiece of World War ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This instrument is a specialized ...

This marine chronometer was given to President Ronald Reagan by singer Frank Sinatra. The quest for the Longitude Prize spurred a wave of innovation and ingenuity in the scientific community.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This instrument is a specialized ...

Arnold & Son presents new updates to its Globetrotter and DSTB collections, inspired by the work of its predecessor John ...

Off the coast of Montauk, in the Long Island Sound, at the bottom of Peconic Bay and in other waters around the world, the remains of multiple ships lost at sea during the 1700’s and 1800’s are a ...