Answer: Automatic watches have a movement that employs an oscillating weight – or rotor – to convert movement in the wearer’s wrist and arm into energy by applying tension to a wound mainspring. A ...

Ask people in the know on watches and almost all will agree that one measure of a quality timepiece is almost always whether it has an automatic movement rather than quartz. A quartz movement gets its ...

Seiko’s Speedtimer has an impeccable pedigree. It was narrowly beaten by a cooperative of Swiss heavy-hitters as the first ever automatic chronograph movement in 1969. Then, in 1973, it became one of ...