Walter Mitt Royal Marine Diver (BL-BR) review

If you buy a Walter Mitt watch you are not doing so because you want a well-know brand or a classic vintage piece that will impress your mates. You are buying a watch that is pretending to look like a vintage diver and to maybe scratch an itch that you have had for some time […]

Tech where you don’t expect it

It’s easy to presume that the Apple Watch is the king of wrist tech, but look a little deeper (and much cheaper) and the Casio G-Shock GW-M5610-1ER offers a great deal. 1/ Satellite time keeping makes for to the second accuracy at all times. 2/ The backlight will turn on when you lift your wrist […]

Omega Geneve calibre 1012 (1974) review

I haven’t reviewed a new watch for a while so I though I would review an old one. A watch that is 45 years old in fact. It was spotted in a vintage watch shop I know and I spent some time just staring at it because certain features caught my eye immediately. The quake […]

Final Garmin Venu thoughts

I have to say that after a week of use the Garmin Venu has proved itself to me and to the point that I would rate it above the Apple Watch, any Apple Watch to date. Ignoring the cellular Apple Watch, the Venu offers the following advantages- It is cheaper by 25%. The battery life […]

Reviewing the Vivoactive 4 as if it were an Apple device

For the past few days I have been playing with the Garmin Vivoactive 4 and have come to some early conclusions that I realised were based on the brand rather than the product itself. I wrote recently about how the Apple Watch is way ahead of the competition, and I stand by that, but I […]

The Hamilton Khaki King. Silence…

I have been on a journey, one that will be familiar to many of you. It started off with watches that were too big for me and which were far too flashy. This moved on to looking at more expensive pieces like the Oris Divers 65, which I regretted selling, and then on to the […]

The (Apple) Watch

For all of the nods to traditional watchmaking that Apple tries to add to the Apple Watch, it doesn’t really matter because those nods mean nothing to most people. The crown feels odd to those who are used to doing everything through a touch screen and the faces that are designed to mimic legendary watch […]

Is the Citizen Excaliber (BN0100-51E) the best budget diver available today?

Yes it is, in my humble opinion. The thing with this watch is that it ticks so many boxes at such a low price point that it makes me wonder why the rest cannot do this? Seiko, Bulova, Hamilton, Tissot, you name it and not one of them makes a watch that offers this much […]

Apple Watch series 5 thoughts

I linked to Marques’ review of the series 5 Apple Watch recently and I have to start by agreeing about the battery life. It is excellent when the display is set to not be always on, but noticeably shorter than the series 4 when this much hyped feature is enabled. The question is, does this […]

Citizen PRT AW7031-54A review

Now and again I see a watch that stands out to me in a shop window and I’m not quite sure why. I saw the PRT in a local jewellers a couple of months ago and saw it again yesterday which was a bit of a surprise. This time, however, it was 30% off and […]