About

Update “About me” – March 2024

Been running this web site for around 15 years (2009) which is amazing as I thought it might last a year maybe, so both surprised and pleased.

It was meant as an outlet for my thoughts on the watches I owned with personal reviews of these and watches I aspired to – maybe?  While I had a fair number of watches at the time, I never considered myself a watch collector or a watch “nut”. But over the years my few watches has expended to over 200 models currently.

And they all have something in common – I buy them because I like them (if I can afford them) – I don’t buy them so I can say I have an expensive or rare collection.

Simply put – I buy them to wear them. And the way it’s going I could end up wearing a different watch every day of the year! But of course I probably wouldn’t – the way it works currently is that I wear a different watch every few weeks, depending on my mood.
The site grew from day one to include things I thought were sometimes tricky to find, such as instructions, or serial numbers and some other technical data I found along the way.
Watch models were mostly related to watches I owned, though a few Posts were “wish I could buy you” reviews. So the site has sort of morphed into a site for all sorts of things to do with watches. All and any reviews and comment are entirely mine and I have no affiliation whatsoever with anyone else. No vested interests and likes and dislikes are mine alone – right or wrong.

Along the way I have learned quite a bit about watches and always learning more each day.

I’ve changed the site theme a few times and the current one is so far working OK, though it doesn’t show my earlier Posts on the Home page. The best way is to either use “search” to find if I have data on a particular watch model, of click on the oldest Post on the Home page and once opened, you can keep going back to previous Post to find older ones.  Not ideal I know and I am trying to resolve this. However my PC skills and negotiating web sites skill decreasing as I get older, so don’t wait up!

One thing – most watches I own are what I call affordable (a loose term I know) and I don’t major in high end (either in price or ‘some’ over-inflated Brands), though I may review the odd one if I think it has any interest for me.  I do have an interest in vintage watches, from pre-war right up to the 1980’s, from mechanical manual or automatic wind and of course quartz and Digital. I also like watches I can read, no cluttered dials, I prefer straps to deployments (silicon single deployments excepted).

But of course “likes” change and there’s always something coming along, though in truth most new ideas on showing the time, tend to clash with actually reading the time.
but maybe that’s just me.

I will say, that today I do actually have some less affordable models as a result of selling on some models from my early collecting days, but I’m on the run down now and my good lady is saying enough is enough – and she’s probably right (as always).

NOTE – (if any of the links on my site fail to work please let me know and I’ll either update them or ditch them).

CONTACT – either via the “Comments” link at the foot of any Post – or by email at – bosartis@proton.me

My Primary web site address is http://watchspace.co.uk

Note – Try not confuse my web site with watch–space.co.uk OR watchspace.com – these are NOT associated with me in any way.