When master watchmaker François-Paul Journe created his Chronomètre à Résonance timepiece 20 years ago, it was the first wristwatch to ever achieve the phenomenon of natural chronometric resonance ...

“It’s been 20 years in the making,” Girard-Perregaux’s CEO, Patrick Pruniaux told Robb Report at a recent meeting in New York last month of its latest high horology release, the Neo Constant ...

Grand Seiko is no stranger to groundbreaking, sometimes industry-shattering, innovations. This is, after all, the company which in 1969 sparked the quartz crisis when it unveiled the Quartz Astron—a ...

Grand Seiko has released its first mechanical complication watch, the Kodo Constant-force Tourbillon, which is the first timepiece to combine a tourbillon and a constant-force mechanism into a single ...

Grand Seiko made its debut at Watches & Wonders this spring by debuting its first tourbillon and its most complicated watch ever, the Kodo Constant-Force Tourbillon. It was among the luxury brands ...

If you are designing a product that requires any sort of smart-motion precision, spring parts that apply constant force or constant resistance are key mechanical design elements to consider. Two of ...

No watchmaking genre celebrates the intricate and delicate craft of mechanical watchmaking quite like a skeleton, or open-worked, design. Dispensing with the watch’s dial, skeletonization seeks to ...

With its combined knowledge of micro-manufacturing processes and accuracy processes, CSEM has been a pioneer in the design and production of centimeter-scale silicon parts with fine mechanical ...

But first, let’s get you up to speed on the background of this technology. Pruniaux likens the idea to running a marathon. The average person might start running quickly at the beginning and then get ...