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Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of introductory pieces on mechanical watches from our friends at Hodinkee. You can read the rest here. More »

Editor’s note: This is part three in a series of introductory pieces on watches from our friends at Hodinkee. You can read part one here and part two here. More »

The mechanical watch is one of the few remaining practical, day-to-day items that has remained unchanged in many ways since its inception hundreds of years ago. Of course, materials and production methods have come a long way since the seventeenth century, but if you crack open a modern mechanical watch, you’ll find something that looks a lot like what you’d find if you peered inside a watch built 150 years ago. And this is true whether you’re looking at an $80 Seiko or an $800,000 Patek Phillipe. More »