October 18, 2024

Learning to Measure Time in Love and Loss

In this essay from 2013, a writer tries to appreciate the limits of his own life. In celebration of Modern Love’s 20th anniversary this month, we […]
July 26, 2024

What Has Helped Make Sports Exciting? Watches.

Improvements in precision timing have added a lot of emotion to events such as the Olympics. Without the watch industry, sporting events would be a lot […]
May 21, 2024

Edinburgh’s Time Ball Will Fall Again

The time signaling device, which hasn’t been operating in recent years, is being restored as part of the renovation of a Calton Hill monument. Specialists have […]
November 8, 2022

A Children’s Watch That Tells More Than the Hour

The founder of Blok Watches said its first timepiece helps young wearers see, and understand, the passage of time. Are children being taught how to tell […]
June 6, 2022

Punctuality Is Having a Moment

“Fashionably late” falls out of fashion after more than two years of remote work, when, for many people, there was no good reason to be tardy. […]