At a huge event today in England, home of British watch brand Bremont, the company unveils a long-awaited new bespoke "Bremont Ronnie Clock." The Bremont Ronnie Wood B1 Marine Chronometer clock is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a continuation of the trend toward cool collaborations in the watch industry, Wempe, the German-based retailer and watchmaker ...

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, ...

Sitting in the saloon of a large yacht, an elaborately built, modern marine chronometer like the sculptural Atlantis Orbis by German clockmaker Erwin Sattler perfectly complements the maritime setting ...

Welcome to Watchword, a series in which we break down key terminology to help you better understand the lay of the ...

Flip Clock turns your iPhone into a retro-style timepiece. The $1 download mimics the old fashioned analog-digital clocks with flipping, plastic-card numbers (as seen waking up Marty McFly in the ...

For generations, the Royal Observatory in Greenwich tested each of the British Navy’s chronometers. These precision instruments—deck clocks used to calculate longitude and thus fix a ship’s position ...

Much like marine chronometers were essential for sea navigation, portable time standards will be needed for deep space navigation. Current missions rely on communication with Earth, where accurate ...