One of the very first watches, created by a locksmith. Today it is nearly impossible to find watchmakers to service or repair vintage mechanical pocket and wristwatches, so we have to do it ourselves.

A pocket watch by a watchmaker who was murdered in a highway robbery in 1853 sold at triple its estimate at TW Gaze in Diss, Norfolk Lorenz Beha was a German watchmaker and silversmith living in ...

Two pocket watch movements linked to a Victorian man bludgeoned to death in a robbery have been sold at auction. German-born ...

"Nothing feels cheap about this watch. The size is a bit smaller than my railroad pocket watch, but that's ok. I like the movement, it being an exhibition, and the feel of the stem when winding," says ...