New Delhi, April 4 -- When we talk about wristwatches, the primary thing we focus on is how the watch looks. Which is fair, because that's the primary reason why one buys a watch-we can tell the time easily and accurately by looking at our phone! Nowadays, other factors also come into play, like how finely crafted or ruggedly built the watch is, depending on one's use for it: wearing it with a suit or bashing it about every day.

As a result of such preoccupations, the one thing that doesn't get as much attention from the average watch buyer is what ticks under the hood of the timepiece-the watch movement. And yet, truth be told, it is in this department that the real magic lies.

After all, whether it is a quartz or a mechanical watch, t...