Magazine

March 26, 2024

Biver Carillon Tourbillon Minute Repeaters

There are a small handful of names associated with the watch industry who beg you to take notice. They are more than giants; they define the watch industry and have had an almost incalculable impact...

Two Years Later: Is the MoonSwatch Hype Still Alive?

Brand Focus

March 26, 2024

Two Years Later: Is the MoonSwatch Hype Still Alive?

Exactly two years ago today, on 26th March 2022, Swatch and Omega collaborated to bring out the “MoonSwatch”. If you’re somehow unfamiliar with this release, this is a watch that has been produced by Swatch...

Affordable Alternatives to Audemars Piguet Royal Oak

Brand Focus

March 25, 2024

Affordable Alternatives to Audemars Piguet Royal Oak

Designed by Gerald Genta, possibly the most famous watch designer of all time, the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak has understandably become one of the most recognisable watches in the industry. The design first made its...

New Raymond Weil ‘millesime’ Novelties Released

New Releases

March 25, 2024

New Raymond Weil ‘millesime’ Novelties Released

The family-owned Geneva brand, Raymond Weil, has been established for almost half a century and will be making a proud debut at Watches & Wonders next month. A staple event in the calendars of watch...

Reviews

March 25, 2024

Boldr Venture Singularity

A review of the Boldr Venture Singularity In the summer of 2022, BOLDR Supply Company released a new iteration of their popular Venture. Already available in a wide range of configurations, ranging from automatic field...

Five watch brands that died…and five that survived

Brand Focus

March 24, 2024

Five watch brands that died…and five that survived

Time is enduring, but watches – and their makers – come and go. One of the biggest threats to their existence was the well-publicised ‘quartz crisis of the 1970s’, when new technology almost made the...

Brand Focus

March 24, 2024

Top 5 Omega Watches from Kibble Watches

I am back on the search for the latest and greatest Omega watches from Kibble watches. If you are ever in need of a pre-loved vintage watch, and in Clerkenwell, London then drop in for...

Affordable Alternatives to the Patek Philippe Nautilus

Brand Focus

March 23, 2024

Affordable Alternatives to the Patek Philippe Nautilus

There are some watches in which their desirability lies almost entirely in their exclusivity. The Patek Philippe Nautilus is one of them. This is a watch that is infamously hard to get hold of, with...

Watch Guides

March 23, 2024

Watches We'll Sell Next

In the loosely connected previous part of these two features - Watches We Wish We Hadn’t Sold – the WatchGecko authors came clean and confessed to the watches they once owned and regretted parting with....

Brand Focus

March 22, 2024

WatchGecko Visits Mühle Glashütte

I’ve been fortunate to spend many months of my life in the quiet corner of Saxony known for its incredible watchmaking output. Glashütte, a quaint town of barely 5,000 inhabitants sits about half an hour’s...

Watch 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...