Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If mechanical watches seem anachronistic in our digital age, the time-honoured desk clock is perhaps even more ...

Some collectors prefer the aesthetics and design of a beautiful timepiece that you can set on a table — “a mechanical sculpture,” as one put it. Share full article The Arachnophobia clock, from a ...

The Rolex Submariner Date Desk Clock features the same stainless steel case construction but also adds a secular calendar.

You don’t need a travel clock. We get it. It’s 2020. Your iPhone knows what time it is. Blah blah blah. We’ve heard it all before. Are you wearing a watch? Great — you’re sufficiently old-school. Keep ...

If you haven't finished holiday shopping, Swiss firm Kross Studio is rolling out a meticulously detailed desk clock shaped like the Batmobile, with production limited to 100 units. Kross Studio chose ...

This clock is made of more than 400 parts, is powered by weights, and was designed and built by one person. Produced by Matt Stuart. Video courtesy Associated Press. Follow TI: On Facebook More from ...

What is it about mechanical clocks? Maybe it’s the gears, or the soft tick-tocking that they make? Or maybe it’s the pursuit of implausible mechanical perfection. Combine mechanical clocks with “free” ...

Dave Welch makes a living out of time, yet he doesn’t wear a watch. “Don’t need one,” he said, swiveling his chair to better survey the vast array of clocks in his Vergennes domain — big ones, small ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. When he was a college student at the University of Wisconsin in the early ...

The familiar tick-tock of wall clocks originates from the escapement mechanism, which controls gear movement in precise steps ...