Guides March 22, 2024 Watches We Regret Selling Buying and collecting watches is part of our DNA at WatchGecko. Equally a part of that process is selling. Very few of us are lucky enough to have unlimited budgets, so we may have to...
Guides March 20, 2024 How Anti-Magnetic Watches Work Today, technology permeates every aspect of our lives. But did you know technology can also threaten the integrity of mechanical watches? That’s where anti-magnetic watches come in. These types of watches are specifically designed to...
Guides March 16, 2024 How to Maintain a Mechanical Watch For enthusiasts and collectors alike, ensuring the longevity and optimal performance of mechanical watches is a top priority. That means understanding the basic steps for daily care of your mechanical watch, how to properly wind...
Guides March 5, 2024 How to Use a Chronograph Watch Chronograph watches combine the art of traditional timekeeping with the precision of stopwatch functionality. They’re revered for both their complexity and practicality, and have cemented their place in the horological hall of fame. But how...
Guides March 3, 2024 Mechanical or quartz? The question of whether to choose a mechanical or quartz watch isn’t new, but it crops up consistently for watch enthusiasts. Do you want a timepiece with near-perfect accuracy (like a quartz), or do you...
Guides February 28, 2024 It's Time for Another Quartz Revolution and Brands Like Sinn Should Lead the Charge No matter whether you’ve been collecting or admiring watches for years, or whether exploring these pages is your first foray into the watchmaking world, it is, in 2024, doubtless that you will already have encountered...
Guides February 24, 2024 My Suitcase Essential: The Bell & Ross BR05 With Christmas now behind us and the promise of warmer weather to come, what we need now is a holiday. Naturally, we all choose a destination, check our passport, sort out which clothes we’ll need,...
Guides February 13, 2024 Why the Sinn Hydro Technology Remains the Gold Standard of Dive Watch Innovations There are certain categories of watches that command more attention than others. One of the most popular watch types is undoubtedly the dive watch. Frequently styled either “dive watch”, “divers’ watch”, “diver’s watch”, or “divers...
Guides February 7, 2024 Nodus Unity Review: Pink Blossom If there’s one microbrand who have made me sit up and take notice in recent months, it would be Nodus. The Los Angeles-based brand have come out with some absolute corkers in the last year...
Guides February 7, 2024 Which GMT Watch Would You Take on Holiday and Why? When it came to sitting down and deciding which, out of the rather spectacular bunch of GMT watches there are on the market, I’d choose to take on holiday with me, I set myself some...
Guides February 5, 2024 Why the £200 Timex Marlin is More Important Than You Think One of the most recognisable watch brands in history is Timex and their past is filled with plenty of spectacular releases. Most notably, their Marlin collection has allowed collectors with even the smallest of bank...