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The Most Impressive Mechanical Watch Brands In The UK

Watches have become synonymous with celebrating milestones. From graduations to promotions, engagements and wedding anniversaries, timepieces are a signature way of marking special occasions. As J...

Leitners - Challenge What Timepieces Are Meant To Be

Leitners is a watch start-up based in the cultural and tech hub of Brno, a city in the Czech Republic famous for keeping the past alive and welcoming a future, that will definitely keep a finger on...

NOMOS Glashütte - Club Campus Strap Guide

The NOMOS Club Campus is the entry-level watch from Glashütte, but it seems already on its way to replace the Bauhaus-style classic NOMOS Tangente from its first place of the most sold watch. At le...

Hands on: Steinhart Ocean Vintage GMT + Strap Guide by Watchbandit

The Steinhart Ocean Vintage GMT is an homage of a Rolex watch, of which you might have never heard before: The Rolex Explorer II ref. 1655. In this post I'd like to go a little deeper into the 1970...

Louis Erard - The Quintessence Of Sport Chronographs

Louis Erard is a Swiss brand of which you might haven't heard much yet, but which you definitely should know: A watch manufacturer that focuses on creating original and authentic Swiss ...

Rolex Day-Date Strap Guide by Watchbandit

The Rolex Day-Date is widely known as "the presidents watch"; From Kennedy, Johnson, Ford, Reagan, Nixon to Roosevelt, each of them was a proud wearer of the Rolex Day-Date. Since launched in 1956 ...

Martenero Bayshore - A Modern Mechanical Dive Watch

Martenero is a premium watch brand founded in 2014, offering original, contemporary designs at accessible price points. Their aesthetics revolve around creating unique designs that stem from the cl...

Back to the future with the new LeJour Hammerhead Diver

LeJour's new Hammerhead dive watch collection had a stunning launch; The new collection was obviously exactly what the watchfam expected and needed. The green dial model was sold out within a few d...

Rolex Datejust 36 Strap Guide by WatchBandit

The Rolex Datejust is one of the Rolex's icons and one of the brand's oldest models of its collection, that still remain (in multiple updated forms) in production today. For us, at the Team WatchBa...

Fine Watches Berlin - From Berlin with love

During our visit of the (mainly microbrand) watch exhibition Aurochronos 2019 in Lodz, Poland, we had the pleasure of meeting Mia and Wilfried of Fine Watches Berlin. Fine Watches Berlin is a you...