Springfield 016, with a movement from a 1923 Illinois Watch Company pocket watch, $4200, vorticwatches.com. When it comes to watches, the Swiss get all the glory. It wasn’t always so. Beginning in the ...

Like wedding rings and china sets, antique pocket watches often become precious family heirlooms passed down from parent to child for generations. They never lose their charm no matter how beaten and ...

Colorado-based Vortic Watches upcycles antqiue pocket watch movements and dials into one-of-a-kind wristwatches for the 21st Century. A friend of mine has been shopping for a watch from Switzerland’s ...