This Week (in Watches) Today, 10 March 2024: 7 things you should know
Here I was thinking March would be a slow one with most of the watch world waiting for Watches & Wonders, but boy, was I...
Here I was thinking March would be a slow one with most of the watch world waiting for Watches & Wonders, but boy, was I...
The first two months of the year have flown by and we are now in March. The watch world is slowing down a tad as...
This year has been a tremendous year for watch releases. From the bigger brands, we have seen Rolex release colorful fun dials (something we...
It all started with Jay-Z in 2005 and LeBron James in 2013. Ten years later we see this collab between Audemars Piguet and the record...
It’s the time of the year again, GPHG is just around the corner (9 November 2023), where brands compete in multiple categories in the Oscars...
It’s been an eventful week in the world of watches. First, we have Swatch Group’s financial results in the UK for the financial year ended...
It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that the Code 11.59 series had as difficult a launch as a collection from Audemars Piguet could possibly...
After the hectic week that was Geneva Watch Days, you could be forgiven if you thought that things would slow a little in the watch...
It’s been a busy week here at Scottish Watches, so its a good thing watch releases has been a little slow this week. Still we...
With all the excitement last week, this week was always going to be a slight slowdown, as was the case with watch releases. That said,...
It was a hectic week in the world of watches with many cool events and new releases. eBay’s authentication program has pushed it to greater...
Watches & Wonders 2023 and all the frantic releases came to an end a week ago, but this week has been surprisingly busy too. First...
A couple of weeks ago, we heard that Daniel Roth, which had been sitting in Bvlgari’s back catalogue of brands of some time now, would...
It’s Audemars Piguet’s week for sure! The brand has dominated the brand new watch release scene, while also contemplating staking its place in the preowned...
2022 is over. It was a tremendously eventful year, that on some level felt like three years crammed into one because of all the restrictions...
This is it, we are at the end of 2022, with just one more day to go. This year has truly been amazing in terms...
It is a slower news week, as it usually is towards the end of the year. Nevertheless, we do have some controversies, like a allegedly...
Wondering hours displays are amongst the most visually interesting ways to display time. Perhaps only coming second to HYT’s fluidic system. Weirdly, for a complication...
The Category One of the absolute joys of the watch world is the artistic engineering of a complication. While a watch on a basic level...
The Category Ahhh the Tourbillion category, endless hours can be spent discussing the merits of a Tourbillion in a wristwatch. There are two types of...
The Category: Iconic The Iconic category to me has always been a far more clear-cut category than most of the others since a significant portion...
The Code 11.59 is boring – they said. AP’s response: “take that – doubters!!” – the last flurry of releases saw incredible timepieces in the...
This week has been a little slower on watch industry news but we have great new releases to make up for it. First we have...
Full disclosure: I LOVE THE CODE 11.59! There, I said it. Yes, yes, when launched in 2019 everyone loved to pile up the hate on...
This week, we kick off with Richemont Group signing up for a good cause, before checking out Chronext’s latest move after a series of negative...
The Category: Artistic Craft Beyond being tools, watches have evolved to become the equivalent of canvases for watchmakers and those who specialize in finishing. To...
Geneva Watch Days has come and gone, and boy, it has been a fun few days with many really interesting releases. While I normally would...
This week has been dominated by the falling prices of hyped models, with effects like Chronext’s lay-offs, and the potential causes like China’s lockdowns and...
It has been an exciting week for watch news, with some interesting industry movements. We have François-Henry Bennahmias confirming a rumour on his future in...
Another week, another flurry of watch releases. First, we hear from Ralf and Misael on the latest from Audemars Piguet and IWC respectively. Next, we...
This week has been a busy one, with plenty of watch releases, amidst some watch news. We first look at the spillover demand for watches...
Its auction season this week! In particular we have Royal Oak auctions galore, the latest Cartier Crash auction results, plus multiple releases from Seiko and...
This week is a week of collaboration with Jacob & Co and Omega dropping collaborative pieces, and Tag Heuer teasing one. Besides that, we have...
It appears that watches now emulate blockbusters, with releases now in full swing. This week we have new bronze releases from both Tudor and Hamilton,...
There is a sense of the calm before a storm this week, with Watches & Wonders starting on 7 April 2021 where many of the...
In the current climate where large physical gatherings are still non-existent and most marketing has to be digital and on social media, I at...
Audemars Piguet just released a new Code 11.59 Self-Winding Flying Tourbillon that comes in two variants, yes two variants. One is the widely reported white gold...
In 2019, Audemars Piguet and Tudor were responsible for two of the biggest marketing flops with their releases of the Code 11.59 and P01 respectively....
As the world continues to be in one of its most uncertain times, the watch industry rumbles on. This week, ETA gets free reign again, we see...
Scottish Watches Podcast #158 : The Tudor Black Bay 58 Navy Blue, AP Offshore, Auctions and More We have a third wheel with us today,...
Scottish Watches Podcast #132 : Live Timex Unboxing, Moser and Patek News, Rolex April Fools Jokes and More The dead pool is still live but...
This week, the world continues to struggle with the effects of the coronavirus with cases spiking in various parts of Europe and the...
Watches and Wonders Watches and Wonders Geneva (formerly SIHH) has been canceled. Given the increasing number of Coronavirus cases in Europe and the associated restrictions...
Life moves in circles, and so does fashion and trends. Since watches are as much art as they are science, as much form as they are function, the...
Following on from our preview article we now welcome back our the team to give some views on what actually won on the night. Aiguille...
We double up with both some Halloween and Guy Fawkes watch chat. Rikki was at a horror festival – no not the TAG watch factory...
So we have moved from doing a weekly analysis to a monthly one for now. The end of May saw the market standing at:...
So the scores on the doors this week are: Grey market price demands: 1220.25 up 28.1 Used market price demands 1191.34 up 38.31 So the...
We like clickbait as well as the next person/podcast/YouTube channel, so here we go. Feel free to add your thoughts in the comments and we will...
For this week now that I have a growing database of information, I have decided to change the format slightly to make it easier to get...
*Ok so technically made in Hong Kong, and designed in Scotland, but that doesn’t work with the Irn Bru reference!! Akura Time introduces a Kickstarter...
It is over, finished done, your Batman is now worthless! Ok, it really isn’t, but according to our figures the heat has started to cool,...
Well in week 8, just after Basel and the discontinuation of the Rolex BLNR 116710 the used market just about caught up on the grey in...
So the time has come for us all to take the “Kings Shilling” otherwise known in watch circles as doing a Hodinkee. That point in...
Listening via a podcast player? Well click here – http://www.scottishwatches.co.uk/2019/03/28/scottish-watches-podcast-24-baselworld-roundup-part-1-and-we-were-actually-there/– to read the show notes with all the photos, links and video stuff on show! If...
…and we all stood back and watched the world burn…. Sorry for the melodrama, but the world of watches has officially lost it. Basel is now...
Six weeks ago I started a wee maths and statistics project. Yup I know just how to take the fun out of watch collecting There...
The first article I ever published on this website was about G-Shocks. Specifically the launch of the 3 “full metal” editions, and to paraphrase, “I...
Welcome to episode 11 of the Scottish Watches Podcast! In this edition we travel the M8 to Edinburgh, kinda, to chat with The Edinburgh Watch...
Never one to miss joining a bandwagon here at Scottish Watches we have now seen a few articles and YouTube posts speak in tones that...
Apologies for the wait, it’s been a hectic week of bedlam here at Scottish Watches HQ! On return from SIHH we had a ton of...
Check out the 4 minute video from the team here at Scottish Watches showcasing just some of the sights from this year’s SIHH Watch Show...
We’ve let Rick out of his cage. He’s been a good boy, all his homework’s been done and his bedroom is tidy. Listen to him...
For those of you who have not yet listened to both episode 1 or 2 of our new podcast you might want to start there,...