For those of you who don’t live in New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently exhibited a collection of antique clocks and watches titled The Luxury of Time: European Clocks and Watches. Don’t worry if you missed it; we had one of our correspondents
It is about to be that infamous time of year again when we all lose an hour of sleep and have to change the time on all of our watches and clocks. It is time to Spring Forward again. This year, Daylight Saving Time falls
At it’s “Important Watches Spring Sale 2013,” Sotheby’s broke many records with their total sales amount reaching $28.4 million. One of the most surprising sales of the auction was Patek Philippe’s “The Magpie’s Treasure Nest Clock.” At the beginning of the auction, this clock was
Beginning today in York, UK at the Fairfax House, the Exhibition: Keeping Time officially begins. This exhibition celebrates the evolution and development of timekeeping in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing specifically with clockmakers in the York and Yorkshire area. The exhibition will explore clocks
Amazon.com's creator, Jeff Bezos, is thinking ahead - 10,000 years ahead. He's funded the Long Now Foundation, which is building The 10,000 Year Clock deep inside of a mountain on his West Texas estate, not far from his personal rocket-launch site. The clock is designed to stand at
Update: We're always open to learning new things, so when we learned about these additional websites, we had to add them to our list. I'm partial to time.is. Without being set to the right time, a watch is little more than a piece of jewelry. If you're passionate
Happy 153rd Birthday, Big Ben! Our watch valuation experts believe it's impressive he's still ringing after all these years. His tower clocks in at 316 feet (96 m) tall (note- Big Ben is the clock's bell, not the clock tower itself). He's survived London's World
