About

June 2025

Been running this web site (and two Art sites) for around 20 years, which is amazing. Stopped the Art sites a few years back and stuck with my watchspace.co.uk  site.  Started as an outlet for my personal take on watches I owned, with personal reviews of these and some models I liked.  While I had a fair number of watches at the time, I never considered myself a collector. But over the years my ‘collection’ has expanded to over 200 models currently, so a collector I must be.

My basic philosophy is  – affordability – or simply put – I buy them to wear them.
Most watches I own are what I call “affordable” and I don’t major in high end (either in price or ‘some’ over-inflated Brands). I don’t collect what you ‘must’ collect either, by brand reputation or fashion dictat or so-called ‘expert’ review (I had enough of that nonsense in the Art world), though I may review the odd one if it has some real merit.

However, I do have the odd rarefied model but rarely include these here.  I also have a keen interest in vintage watches from pre-war to the 1980’s, be they mechanical manual, automatic wind, Quartz or Digital.

So, starting as a bit of fun, my web site is now read and accessed from over 80 countries and over a million ordinary folk with an interest in everyday watches. The number of “views” is both staggering and humbling.  And this despite my much reduced input, owing to health issues. Getting old!

I’ve changed the site theme a few times and whilst the current one is OK, it’s not perfect. It doesn’t show all my earlier Posts on the Home page. If I have data or Posted on a particular watch model, is use “search” or if you scroll down the Posts till you reach “older Posts” at the foot, this should/might open a list of previous Posts.

Finally – you just never know about watches.  Today you can buy amazingly cheap models (the choice has never been better) and these are quality models too – sometimes they are absolutely great, but do your homework first. In the past, I’ve also bought watches for many £100’s + that were in reality really quite poor, though these days the standards of quality everyday models has definitely improved.

So, my advice? – buy what you like and what you like to wear and you won’t go far wrong!

NOTES –
1) – If any links on my site fail to work, let me know and I’ll update or delete them.
2) – Any images on site that are 3rd party copyright for illustration purposes and not annotated as such, let me know and I will remove them.
3) – All other images are copyright of this site – all can be used with my permission and attributed as such.
4) – Reviews and comments are personal views with no affiliations with anyone else.
In other words – no vested interests – see “important” foot of this page.
CONTACT – I can be contacted via the “Comments” link at the foot of any Post.
My primary web site address is http://watchspace.co.uk

Do not confuse my web site with watch–space.co.uk (with the hyphen) OR watchspace.com – these are NOT associated with me in any way.

Important – My web site is non-commercial. In other words, I do not buy or sell or promote watches for sale and have NO vested interest in any Brand.
It is simply a hobby/personal web site – an outlet for my personal views, observations and a delight in expressing my views about watches, specifically wrist watches.
Amazingly, it’s grown over the years, but is still a relatively simple resource for watch matters – such as serial numbers, data sheets, instruction manuals, most of which I have simply come across along the way. My ‘contact me’ link is always busy, which is fun.

So, I’ll try and keep it going  with the odd Post – and as ever watch(this)space.