Editorial
12 guides for choosing and understanding watches.
Buying Advice
Watch Insider is one brand covering Tickmere's editorial guides and the homepage newsletter. Here is what you will find, and how to use it when you are choosing a watch.
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Ex-display watches are genuine pieces that were used for retail display rather than sold as brand-new boxed stock. Here is what that means in practice — and what it does not mean.
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Changing the strap is the cheapest way to transform a watch. Here is how each material actually behaves in use, which suits water, heat and formal wear, and how to swap one safely.
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Case diameter gets all the attention, but lug-to-lug length is what actually decides whether a watch fits your wrist. Here are the four measurements that matter and how to use t...
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Sapphire is harder, mineral glass is tougher, and acrylic is the only one you can polish at home. Understanding the difference tells you which watch will still look new in five ...
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Most chronographs are bought for how they look and never started. That is a shame, because the complication is genuinely useful once you know what the three sub-dials and the ou...
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A GMT watch shows a second time zone at a glance — useful if you cross zones, work with colleagues abroad, or just like knowing what time it is at home. Here is how the complica...
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A dress watch is defined by what it leaves out. Thin case, restrained dial, leather strap, and a willingness to trade water resistance for elegance. Here is how to choose one pr...
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Most watches that look like divers are not built to a diving standard. This guide covers the features that matter — unidirectional bezel, screw-down crown, legibility, strap sec...
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A first automatic watch should be one you can wear without thinking about it. Here is what actually matters at this price — named calibres, hand-winding, 100 metres of water res...
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A watch marked 30 metres cannot be worn swimming, and a 50-metre rating is not half as good as 100. The figures are pressure test results, not diving depths. Here is how to read...
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Automatic, quartz, Eco-Drive, solar, kinetic — the movement inside a watch decides how accurate it is, how often you touch it and what you will spend on it over twenty years. He...
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