Guides March 26, 2024 When Should You Service Your Watch? Even if you take great care of your watch, maintaining its precision and elegance sometimes requires extra care, often in the form of professional servicing. But many watch owners wonder just how often to get...
Guides 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...
Guides 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...
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....
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,...