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Articles, reviews, and watch guides from the WatchGecko Magazine team.

Having previously written for aBlogtoWatch, Fratello, Time & Tide, Grail Watch, SJX, Get Bezel, Borro Blog, Jomashop, Bob's Watches, Skolorr, Oracle Time, and Revolution USA, Rob currently co-hosts The Real Time Show Podcast, as well as working with several brands as a consultant in the fields of brand building, product development, global retail strategy, and communications.

Reviews

August 8, 2024

Doxa 300 White Pearl Review

Doxa has been a name on the tip of many tongues these past few months, following the Watches & Wonders/Geneva Watch Week reveal of the truly incredible Sub 200T series. Smaller, lightweight, wearable, and presented...

Brand Focus

August 7, 2024

Top Five Zenith Models In 2024

Over the past few years, Zenith, under the thoughtful and effective stewardship of recently departed CEO Julien Tornare, succeeded in revamping its catalogue to include a healthy mix of classic and progressive models that repositioned...

Top Five Ulysse Nardin Models In 2024: Freak, Classico, Diver NET And More…

Watch Guides

July 9, 2024

Top Five Ulysse Nardin Models In 2024: Freak, Classico, Diver NET And More…

Everyone has their favourite brands, but not every favourite is created equal.

Echo/Neutra AVERAU 39 Moon phase “Big Moon” White

Reviews

July 8, 2024

Echo/Neutra AVERAU 39 Moon phase “Big Moon” White

Creativity in watchmaking is rarer than it ought to be. While the challenges of doing something truly new in a saturated industry that, by the nature and function of its products, requires designers to work...

Watch Guides

July 7, 2024

The Top Five IWC Watches In 2024

Everyone loves a good list article as it’s a chance to reinforce your own opinions via the clearly ranked opinions of others.

Watch Guides

July 5, 2024

Top Five Hublot Models In 2024

Hublot gets a lot of stick. The brand’s mainstream but arguably undeserved reputation as a brassy, brazen, baron of bombast has proven hard to dispel in the minds of the masses. To this end, Hublot...

Watch Guides

June 28, 2024

Top Five Hamilton Models In 2024

Not many brands can claim to make a better watch (materially and functionally speaking) at a better price than Hamilton.

Industry News

June 26, 2024

IWC × Lewis Hamilton Pop-Up At Battersea Power Station July 2nd 2024

Fans of IWC take note: the popular Swiss brand from the German-speaking town of Schaffhausen is popping up in London next week with an exciting exhibition open to anyone from the watch-curious to the watch-obsessed....

Comparing the new Christopher Ward C65 Dune GMT with the Automatic Version

Reviews

June 25, 2024

Comparing the new Christopher Ward C65 Dune GMT with the Automatic Version

The Christopher Ward C65 Dune Automatic is the perfect GADA watch, right? Unlike many true Go Anywhere, Do Anything watches, it has the ability (especially on a bracelet) to flirt with high-society functions thanks to...

The Peren Regia — Transylvania’s Top Dog Returns

Reviews

June 18, 2024

The Peren Regia — Transylvania’s Top Dog Returns

Peren Regia - Credit WatchGecko Duality. The light and the dark. The rough and the smooth. Peaks and troughs, summits and valleys, glittering spires and shadowy recesses. Wide open spaces and demarcated nooks. The contrasts...

Brand Focus

June 16, 2024

Top Five Toughest Omega Watches

Rob Nudds identifies his Top Five Toughest Omega Watches for us. 5. Omega Seamaster Diver 300 M One of the Diver 300 M pieces had to make the list, so why not the memorable “No...