No matter in which part of the globe you stand, the chances are that you won’t be far away from a watch shop, and that many of the watches, expensive or not, will have come from one place: Shenzhen. Over the past 20 years the former fishing village in southern Guangdong province has become the [...]

From the New York Times: With 2012 being both a lucky Year of the Dragon and a leap, it’s not surprising that many of the timepieces introduced at the recent SIHH watch fair in Geneva gave major consideration to the calendar—the “annual” versus “perpetual” figuring prominently in the mechanical innovations and aesthetics of many of the [...]

The EER Patent Solar Powered Turbine Steampunk Fob Watch has been described as “a blast from the past.” Perhaps a more appropriate description is “a watch that never was.” Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and speculative fiction. Steampunk involves a setting in which steam power is still widely used—usually Victorian-era Britain or “Wild West”-era United States—that incorporates elements of either science fiction or fantasy. [...]