Brief History of the Rolex Watch Company

In 1905 Hans Wilsdorf and his brother-in-law Alfred Davis founded “Wilsdorf and Davis” in London. Their main business at the time was importing Hermann Aegler’s Swiss movements to England and placing them in quality watch cases made by Dennison and … Continue reading →

Bulova is a corporation making watches and clocks. It has its headquarters in Woodside, Queens, New York City. Bulova was founded and incorporated as the J. Bulova Company in 1875 by Joseph Bulova (1851–1936), an immigrant from Bohemia. It was … Continue reading →

A pocket watch (or pocketwatch) is a watch that is made to be carried in a pocket, as opposed to a wristwatch, which is strapped to the wrist. They were the most common type of watch from their development in … Continue reading →

Horology (from Greek: ὥρα, “hour, time” and Greek: λόγος, logos, “study, speech”; lit. the study of time) is the art or science of measuring time. Clocks, watches, clockwork, sundials, clepsydras, timers, time recorders and marine chronometers are all examples of … Continue reading →

There are two main styles of pocket watch, the hunter-case pocket watch, and the open-face pocket watch. Open-face watches An open-faced, or Lépine, watch, is a watch in which the case lacks a metal cover to protect the crystal. It … Continue reading →