According to the Breitling website, the watch transmits a first digital signal on the 406 MHz frequency intended for satellites and lasting 0.44 seconds every 50 seconds; as well as a second ...

The Great War, as one U.S. paper put it in 1919, had “made the world safe for men who wear wrist-watches.” In 2013, McCrossen wrote that, with the introduction of smartwatches, the “pocket ...

The first “heavier-than-air machines” Santos invented, the 14-bis, looked like something assembled in the back room of a UPS store—boxes pressed up against more boxes.

Murat was one of the first female watch collectors in history, having purchased her first timepiece at the age of 23. She acquired a total of 34 watches from Breguet. In 1810, Napoleon Bonaparte’s ...