The jumping hour watch is having its cushion-case moment. Roughly a century after the first jumping hour watches graced the wrists of enthusiasts the world over, we’re witnessing a resurgence in the ...

Over the past year, we’ve seen the triumphant return of jump hour watches, alongside many mother-of-pearl dials and a few aventurine glass dials. We even got an aventurine glass jumping hour dial, ...

Christopher Ward was making jump hour watches before they were cool. Jump-hour complications, in which a watch’s hour hand is replaced by a digital display that “jumps” to the next hour every 60 ...

This story is from an installment of In the Loupe, our weekly insider newsletter about the best of the watch world. Sign up here. On a recent video call, Nick Manousos, the executive director of the ...