Time To Unwind by WatchGecko

The most exciting news from this week is that we have a brand new home! At Time to Unwind HQ, we’ve set up a recording studio with all the latest kit – ensuring that we now have all the gear and no idea. When it comes to recording at least: hopefully we know a bit more about watches. This week, we’re talking about the ‘one that got away’: watches that we either sold and regretted, or never bought...

Last time, Anthony and Jon revealed which cars and watches they would buy in certain different price categories, inspired by a question we asked our resident racing driver Scott McKenna: https://www.watchgecko.com/the-cars-and-watches-challenge-scott-mckenna/ To summarise: you’ve got around £150,000 to spend on four cars and four watches. One car has to cost no more than £5000, the next no more th...

Here are the rules of the game. You’ve got around £150,000 to spend on four cars and four watches. One car has to cost no more than £5000 , the next no more than £10,000 , the third no more than £20,000 and the final one £100,000 . Same goes for watches: one watch to be no more than £500 , the next no more than £1,000 , the third no more than £2,000 , and the final one no more than £10,000 . Antho...

Ah, the endless debate of Tudor vs Rolex. Much like iPhone vs Android there is always another side of the argument that comes to the table whenever this discussion arises; and it was no different here! Sit back and enjoy the four regulars chatting about everything Rolex vs Tudor as we muscle in our opinions on this debate for the ages… Show notes: Tudor Black Bay 58 Blue https://www.watchgecko.com...

We’re lucky to feature a very special guest on our podcast this week: Neil Duckworth from Veritime. Neil now specialises in working with a variety of different watch brands that he finds interesting – and he was kind enough to bring in a few examples to show us, which are all fascinating conversation pieces. However, he’s probably best-known for establishing TAG-Heuer in the UK: or just Heuer, as...

Motorsport and watches go together like gin and tonic. And for once the analogy is a good one, as there’s a slightly thirsty start to this episode (just check out the first clip below). But enough about drinking, as this episode is really all about driving. After the obligatory run through our latest inspirations, Anthony, Jon, Tim and Ben talk about their favourite motorsport-themed watches. And...

Jon gets the ball rolling by telling us about Schitt’s Creek, which is apparently a TV series rather than a place we’ve often found ourselves up without a paddle. It can be easy to get there by buying a watch on eBay too, but there are many weird and wonderful bargains to be had if you’re careful. Anthony and Ben cast a quick eye over what has caught their attention in the eBay classifieds, rangin...

So apart from the online Watches and Wonders show it’s been a few months of silent on the watch event news front. However it was recently confirmed that Geneva Watch Days has approval and is going ahead at the end of August. We sat down to chat about this news as well as recommending some interesting stuff that has caught our eye recently. Sit back and enjoy! Watches and Wonders Geneva Watch Days...

Something fun for today’s podcast as we share our deepest darkest watch confessions. All four of us share either one watch or one style of watch that we hate to say we kind of love. There are some interesting answers here and unfortunately for me, one clear choice that the other guys didn’t approve of. Sit back and enjoy!

In this episode, I sit down with Ben to chat about a large topic in the watch industry, vintage watches. With the adoption of vintage designs, we have seen a lot of re-issue watches appear on the market which is met with huge success. But is this something that can withstand the test of time? Listen below for our thoughts on the interesting topic… Show Notes; OW P104S https://ow-watch.ch/products/...

Welcome back to the Time To Unwind Podcast. A slight change of pace today as we recently asked people signed up to our newsletter to submit their questions so we can answer them on an episode. The result was some great, interesting and funny questions. This is part 2 of the QNA. Sit back and enjoy another time to unwind episode! Show Notes; Seiko SKX https://www.watchgecko.com/the-seiko-skx-diver-...

Welcome back to the Time To Unwind Podcast. A slight change of pace today as we recently asked people signed up to our newsletter to submit their questions so we can answer them on an episode. The result was some great, interesting and funny questions. This is part 1 of the QNA, with part 2 coming out next week. Sit back and enjoy another time to unwind episode! Show Notes; The Oris 65 2 Tone Bron...

Anthony, Ben and Tim all dive into the details of a special vintage Omega to Anthony that just so happens to be one of the Dirty Dozen from the 40s. We end up chatting for a while about the Dirty Dozen watches as a whole and the fascinating story associated with them. There is plenty to chat about. We also pick our favourite Dirty Dozen watch which promotes Ben to take that question and really mak...

In this episode we talk about things from the watch world that have caught our eye recently. Everyone was asked to bring one watch story to the discussion that peaked their interest in the past week. We had a hunt for a new watch, a confession of love for a certain Cartier, a chat about one of the most impressive independent watchmakers active today and all of our health addictions to Chrono24… Sh...

Hello and welcome to Time To Unwind by WatchGecko. Our very first episode, we discussed watch brands having to launch their watches online due to the current climate, some of our favourite releases from the past few weeks as well as some exciting new additions coming to the WatchGecko website. We’ve wanted to set up the time to unwind podcast for around a year now, mainly because we’re having thes...