The Horology Magazine
Features, research & explainers
Horological History · Historical feature
Clocks Before Europe: Kaifeng, Diyarbakır and the Long Prehistory of the Escapement
A century apart, a Song-dynasty statesman and an Artuqid court engineer documented regulated time machines of remarkable sophistication. Why are they so often missing from the story?
Technical Horology · Technical explainer
Why the Lever Won: Two Centuries of the Detached Lever Escapement
Thomas Mudge's invention of the 1750s waited half a century for industry to catch up. Today it beats inside almost every mechanical watch on earth.
Watchmaking Industry · Historical investigation
Christmas Day, 1969: The Seiko Astron and the Quartz Revolution
How a gold watch released in Tokyo — with a crystal vibrating 8,192 times a second — reshaped the global watch industry within fifteen years.