All In-depth Watch Reviews

£500 - £1000

Who Wears Wins! Is The Marathon Officer’s Mechanical The Perfect Field Watch?

Take one look at the Marathon Officer’s Mechanical watch and even if you’re new to watches, your spider senses would be telling you that it’s definitely not a watch...

£250 - £500

The Quest – Rosenbusch’s Response To The Demand For 70s Style Watches

The Quest is a new integrated bracelet sports watch designed by fledgling German brand, Rosenbusch. It’s commonplace for brands to take design cues from the iconic industrial designs of...

£500 - £1000

Slowing down time with the Botta Uno 24

About Botta Founded in 1986, Botta designs and assembles its Bauhaus inspired watches in Germany and uses only Swiss movements. Led by chief designer Klaus Botta, the German brand...

£100 - £250

The Accurist Origin Men’s Chronograph – Accurist Get Back To Their Roots

If you’re not from the UK, you’ve probably never heard of Accurist before. But the brand has been around since 1946 when it was founded by Asher and Rebecca...

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The Waldhoff Multimatic II – It’s Complicated…

In a previous review, I said that it can be quite tricky to design a minimalist watch. Well, the same is true for watches that are the exact opposite...

£500 - £1000

The Nove Modena – A Different Take On The Steel Sports Watch

Too often in this industry, I see brands playing it safe and producing watches that are just rehashes of other popular designs. Which is why I really respect those...

£500 - £1000

The Tissot PRX Powermatic 80 – Pure Seventies Funk

When Tissot announced the quartz PRX in 2020, the watch world seemed impressed, an accessible, original Tissot design brought back from the late 70s and reimagined into a modern...

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The Omega Seamaster Diver 300m 007 Edition – James Bond’s Watch In No Time To Die

With each new Bond film comes a new Omega strapped to 007’s wrist. For No Time To Die Omega released a titanium version of the Seamaster Diver 300m. Daniel...

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The Iota GMT Collection – Minimalism Done Right

It’s a tricky thing to design a minimalist watch. And that’s because the fewer elements there are in a design, the harder it is to make them interesting and...

£1000+

The Christopher Ward C65 Sandhurst Series 2 – A Fantastic Value Proposition

When it comes to field watches, the devil is in the details. The design language of these military-inspired pieces tends to be very rigid, which leaves little room for...

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The Manime La F. – An Affordable And Stylish French Dress Watch

Way back when, France used to be one of the main centres for watchmaking in Europe. I actually don’t know if the two things are related but a large...

£500 - £1000

The Seiko Prospex SPB317J1 – The Quintessential Seiko Dive Watch

For the past couple of years, Seiko has been really focussed on reissuing some of its most iconic dive watches. Which is by no means a bad thing, because...