Ancient mysteries

The tourbillon is among the most beguiling instruments in watchmaking, finds Tom Chamberlin

Well, it certainly looks like a game. But is it? The archaeological object illustrated here is of a type found frequently in the Central Andes, homeland of the Inca Empire from about 1400 to 1553. Spe

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory

Chronographs are inextricably linked with motor sport these days, but five years after Louis Moinet invented the function in 1816, Louis XVIII’s watchmaker Nicolas Rieussec developed a contraption tha

Serial entrepreneur and Aera Instruments co-founder Jas Minhas can trace his horological roots back to the 1960s when his father set up a watch distribution business in Birmingham. Minhas, now 51, liv

During late August 2025, the Hunterian Museum of Zoology in Glasgow hosted Snake Summer, an event covering snakes in science, folklore and fantasy organised by Dr Will Tattersdill of the University of