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Read the Les Tugas manifesto and discover the true meaning of the IPR watch that will be launched on the 10th.

184 photos of watches from Portuguese brands: the first step of “O Inventário”, the IPR project to identify, document and preserve Portugal's watch brands.

What makes a watch brand Portuguese? Design, manufacture, registration or identity? A proposed classification of Portuguese horology: coarse, monumental and fine.

The Serpe is the Métiers d’Art version of the Les Tugas, created with Bernardo D’Orey: a made-to-order watch with a unique, hand-made straw marquetry dial.

How the clock became a central instrument of the Scientific Revolution, making it possible to measure time precisely and turn it into a scientific quantity.

Choosing a watch goes beyond fashion: it is about style, personality and companionship, and calls for reflection on your needs and preferences.

10/10 is World Watch Day. Today the IPR takes watchmaking to children at the Medeiros e Almeida Museum in Lisbon. Why this date, what is inside a watch and how to mark the day.

Movado Group is selling 95% of EBEL for $66.5 million to a group led by Montres Journe, the company behind F.P. Journe, with Chanel taking part. Pierre Jacques will be chief executive, and Le Corbusier's Villa Turque goes with the brand.

From the Greenwich meridian to optical clocks: who computes UTC, why leap seconds are on their way out and how time reaches Portugal.

A historical and technical look at marine chronometers: Harrison, Le Roy, Berthoud, Kendall, Arnold and Earnshaw; types, escapements, fusee, compensation balance, rating, use at sea and the GUB No. 7986 aboard the Portuguese sail training ship Sagres.

An overview of watchmaking in Portugal today: the active Portuguese brands, watchmakers, projects and institutions keeping the tradition alive.

From the legacy of Abraham-Louis Breguet to the Experimental No. 1: Gregory Kissling, CEO of Breguet, on innovation, precision and the brand's future.