Changing the strap on watch is an easy way to quickly and cheaply change the look and feel of a watch. People often ask how often they can actually do this and get worried that doing it too often can cause damage. The truth is that there are no rules. You can change your straps […]

It is argued that watches are obsolete and they are not needed in today’s world, especially mechanical watches, that are basically an ancient technology when we compare to the digital technology that we now have access too. We also need to accept that watches are effectively a fashion accessory, even if a lot of us

If you have heard about buying watches from Aliexpress you may have had some reservations, but you don’t need to. Some watches are excellent and overall the company is perfectly safe to buy from.  What Is Aliexpress? Aliexpress is a Chinese online market place that is often compared to Amazon due to their similarities. The

People seem to think there is some sort of unwritten rule where you must wear your watch on your left wrist. To do anything else is just barbaric. The truth is, this is nonsense. You can wear your watch on whatever wrist you want. There are no rules.  Does It Mean Anything If You Do

Ghosted bezels are a very sought after trait on vintage watches and are now a growing trend in the watch modding community. What Is A Ghosted Watch Bezel? A ghosted bezel is where the bezel of watch has a patina, it’s where the colour is faded from its original colour. As the colour is a

If you have ever owned an automatic watch you might have shook your wrist and listened to the rotor spinning inside while asking yourself how long it will take for it to fully wind itself. Unfortunately this question is a little more difficult to answer than you might think as there are so many factors

The PT500 is a watch movement that is starting to appear more often in watches, especially the ones coming out of China, such as those sold on Aliexpress. As we are now more likely to end up with a watch that has this movement, we have to ask if it is reliable and should we

Aliexpress watches are growing in popularity among budget watch collectors, but are they any good?  Well it depends. There are a lot of watches available on Aliexpress and a lot of them are cheap, poorly made homages, but things seem to be changing, luckily for the better. While homage watches may still dominate the market,

Dress watches are often seen as the “fancy” watch you can only wear when you are all dressed up. For a large number of men that means weddings and funerals. I’m at the age where everyone I know is married and well, I hope I won’t be going to any funerals any time soon.   This

When you buy a new watch you probably quickly take it out of the packaging and push the box aside. The box inevitably gets put somewhere out the way and eventually gets forgotten about or even lost. It is often asked what you should actually do with the box, do you really need it? Well,