While now a relatively obscure name, Gruen was once among a club of notable American watch makers. The company’s history goes back to making pocket watches in late 1800s under the name Columbus Watch ...

Driving east into Walnut Hills, you come across a pair of Old World buildings flanking East McMillan Street. They look like a Swiss chalet, or maybe an estate from a different century and different ...

Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a biweekly column highlighting little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the Gruen Techni-Quadron. It’s an archetypal ...

Benjamin Samuel Katz, who had been a newsboy and messenger boybefore he became a photographer, went into Dinhofer Brothers, Manhattan jewelry wholesaler, one day in 1917 to buy a ring for his fiancee, ...

Question: Last year, I bought some interesting jewelry at a house sale. One piece is an unusual old 17-jewel, 10 K gold-filled, pentagon-shape, open-face pocket watch that is stem-wound and set.

This site handled (or was contaminated by) uranium, according to government records. The Department of Energy initially considered cleaning up this site under the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial ...