Magazine

May 8, 2024

New Tudor Pelagos FXD Chrono “Cycling Edition” Released

Earlier this year at Watches and Wonders all eyes were on Tudor as they released new models for 2024. Fans of the Black Bay were in luck as the Swiss luxury brand showcased three new...

The Watches Spotted at the 2024 Met Gala

Industry News

May 7, 2024

The Watches Spotted at the 2024 Met Gala

The glitz and the glam of New York City’s annual Met Gala seems to capture me in its spell every year without fail. Keen to see how each attendee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art...

Watch Guides

May 7, 2024

The Best Straps For Blue Dial Watches

Blue dials have long been popular in the watch world and there’s a classic charm to them that I can’t see the industry getting tired of any time soon. In fact, I’d almost guarantee that...

April auction update – first self-winding Patek Philippe wristwatch, a unique Cartier, 60s & 70s design, and a £1.2 million pocket watch.

Industry News

May 6, 2024

April auction update – first self-winding Patek Philippe wristwatch, a unique Cartier, 60s & 70s design, and a £1.2 million pocket watch.

One month out before the headline May Geneva auctions, April still saw some unique and highly collectable watches come up for auction, including a pocket watch from the tragic sinking of R.M.S. Titanic in 1912...

On the Road 4: Watches and F1 Motoring Collaborations

Industry News

May 5, 2024

On the Road 4: Watches and F1 Motoring Collaborations

One of the great things about watches is that they somehow manage to unite people who are from completely different walks of life. Frenchman Jean Todt – the millionaire former team boss of Ferrari in...

Top 5 American Brands at WindUp Watch Fair San Francisco

Brand Focus

May 4, 2024

Top 5 American Brands at WindUp Watch Fair San Francisco

If asked to imagine a physical representation of the ‘watch world’, you might find visions of the snowy peaks of Switzerland naturally begin to spring to mind. That’s understandable, as Switzerland has somewhat established itself...

Welcome to the 2024 San Francisco WindUp Watch Fair

Industry News

May 3, 2024

Welcome to the 2024 San Francisco WindUp Watch Fair

Today marks the first day of 2024's first WindUp Watch Fair. From May 3rd to May 5th, 2024, the WindUp Watch Fair will proudly return for its once-a-year stint in San Francisco. The three-day shopping...

Watch Guides

May 2, 2024

Favourite watch I’ve never owned

As self-confessed watch geeks there is, naturally, a never-ending list of watches that we have our eye on in some capacity, but the reasons these watches haven’t made it into our collections *yet* can vary....

New Releases

May 1, 2024

New TAG Heuer x KITH FORMULA 1 Released

The WatchGecko office has been abuzz this afternoon with news on the product of TAG Heuer’s latest collaboration with KITH. I’m not sure some of us had quite gotten over their last quirky offering, the...

Reviews

May 1, 2024

Four NOMOS Tetra Models Reviewed

Before pretty recently, I was never tempted by a square watch. I’ve become so used to looking down and seeing the conventional round silhouette on my arm that it’s difficult to imagine anything different. But...

New Certina x Marta Ortega DS-7 Chrono Padel Edition Released

New Releases

April 30, 2024

New Certina x Marta Ortega DS-7 Chrono Padel Edition Released

It feels only natural to first explain what on earth ‘padel’ is. The answer? A fairly new, but increasingly popular racket sport not dissimilar to tennis (and sometimes referred to as padel tennis), that originated...