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Hooke or Huygens? Discover one of the great duels in watchmaking history: who really invented the balance spring that turned the pocket watch into a precision instrument.

Discover the link between the pocket watch and hypnosis, the technique for accessing the unconscious, from Mesmer and Braid to the stage and the consulting room.

Three gifted watches that became legends: Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral’s Patek Philippe, the Breguet No. 160 “Marie-Antoinette” and Paul Newman’s Rolex Daytona.

With the Stranger Things finale set for 1 a.m. on the 1st, we look at the clocks, the watches and the perception of time in the Netflix series.

The stackfreed: history, working and legacy of the Renaissance device that tried to tame the uneven torque of the mainspring before the fusee prevailed.

We have perfected ever more precise instruments to measure outer time, yet ignored our inner time. A reflection on the biological clock and the mechanical watch.

The Maltese cross stopwork limits the mainspring to its most stable zone, improving isochronism. A history of the mechanism and its Vacheron Constantin legacy.

Stubbornness, pessimism and optimism: the triangle that drives the world of watchmaking. Discover how it works and how it is taking shape in Portugal.

What does Swiss Made mean today? Swiss law, the 60% cost rule of the 2017 Swissness reform, what has changed since 1971 and how origin works in the EU and Portugal.

New York hosts three watch fairs on the same weekend. Urwerk presents the UR-300 Time Quantum, Arnold & Son the DSTB Stop-Seconds and Hublot reissues its 1980 watch; Hermès and IWC round off the day.

Watch after-sales service (SAV) links tradition and innovation: servicing, restoration, transparency, ethics and the challenges facing watch repair in Portugal.

Was the tourbillon Abraham-Louis Breguet's invention alone, or did it emerge under the influence of the English genius John Arnold? A quiet controversy revisited.