Buying guides, watches we genuinely rate, and the things we have learned from collecting them ourselves. We are a new independent business, so this section will grow with us.
Richard leans Swiss. Nick leans Japanese. Between us we own Swatch, Seiko, Casio, Citizen and Hamilton — so this was never going to be a completely peaceful comparison.
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From the Tissot PRX to the Citizen Tsuyosa, this is one corner of the watch world we keep coming back to — and not because somebody told us it was fashionable.
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Textured dial, small seconds, automatic movement and bags of personality. The Tsuyosa Small Seconds is exactly the sort of watch that made us want to start this business.
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The PRX is everywhere for a reason. We look at the bracelet, the dial, the Powermatic 80 movement — and why we still rate it after the hype.
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One is mechanical, one is usually more accurate, and neither is automatically ‘better’. Here is how we would choose with our own money.
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Forget snobbery and giant specification lists. These are the things we genuinely think matter when you are spending real money on your first good watch.
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You do not need four figures to buy a watch worth getting excited about. These are the names and types we would look at first with a £300 ceiling.
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‘Grey market’ sounds dodgy. Usually, it means something much less dramatic: genuine watches sold outside a brand’s authorised dealer network.
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