Like wedding rings and china sets, antique pocket watches often become precious family heirlooms passed down from parent to child for generations. They never lose their charm no matter how beaten and ...

"Oh, your watch is beautiful! Is it...?" "Atomic," you'll be able to say very soon, if you have a huge amount of money and don't mind wearing radioactive matter about your well-tailored person.

Halls Fine Art’s watches specialist Alexander Clement says the outer gold case of the watch was donated to support Britain’s Second World War effort in 1941, but the movement itself could change hands ...

Springfield 016, with a movement from a 1923 Illinois Watch Company pocket watch, $4200, vorticwatches.com. When it comes to watches, the Swiss get all the glory. It wasn’t always so. Beginning in the ...

Colorado-based Vortic Watches upcycles antqiue pocket watch movements and dials into one-of-a-kind wristwatches for the 21st Century. A friend of mine has been shopping for a watch from Switzerland’s ...

Vortic is among relatively few companies specializing in converting vintage pocket watches into wristwatches. While the majority of such pocket watches tend to be classically styled, Vortic’s newest ...