Although less accurate than pocket watches, wrist watches were significantly ... manuals like this were written to train any 18-year-old to learn advanced skills in a short period of time.

Left: pocket watches from Tsarist-era ... in quality," German says while looking in the microscope and cleaning an old part scattered around the table. Besides, he adds, people in the Soviet ...

A tourbillon (French for "whirlwind") is a centuries-old mechanism built inside some of the world's most expensive watches. It was originally designed to improve the accuracy of pocket watches by ...

So it may seem like a brave choice for two Chicago entrepreneurs to launch a company making old-fashioned mechanical ... For John Warren, it all started with pocket watches made by the Cornell ...

By Joe Donlon, Zak Spector Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) -- It seems that Apple Watches are everywhere these ...