Timex - entire UK range now available!
It took some doing, but we're proud to announce we are now listing the entire current
Timex watch range. Timex have a great heritage in the watch industry with a reputation for quality at an affordable price. The range includes watches of almost every style, and watches for all tastes. We've split the range into six categories to make it easier to find the right watch. Be sure to have a look at the
IronMan watch range which we have some exclusive offers on.
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Lacoste LAW1300G63A - one more left
We get asked about this model every week. and while we've been showing no stock it turns out we have ONE of the
LAW1300G63A still in the warehouse still shrink wrapped and ready for the first customer who orders it. We are fairly sure we will never get any more of this model as Lacoste discontinued it a while back. Hurry!
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What does "Swiss Made" actually mean?
The Swiss watch market has seen a huge turn around in recent years, with exports of mechanical watches in particular rising as never before over the last 20 years or so. Interestingly, exports are increasing in value faster than they are in volume, giving a clear indication that the market is healthily able to sell more complex, and more expensive watches.
Rising demand puts strain on production of course, and as a result some producers have been going further afield than ever before to purchase components. So a "Swiss Made" watch is typically coming with a smaller percentage of it's components actually produced in Switzerland. This puts a strain on what exactly "Swiss Made" actually means, hence the FH (Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry) are trying to increase the strictness of the guidlines used to define what a Swiss Watch actually is. In the future, it may become a requirement that 80% of the components in mechanical (automatic) watches are of genuine Swiss origin, which adds value to the reputation of the Swiss Watch Industry.
A newer definition, "CASP" (Certified All Swiss Parts) is in use, giving buyers assurance of watches made in Switzerland, from all Swiss components, but pressures from the rest of the world, which is increasingly producing movements of better and better quality all the time is without doubt pressurizing whether or not "Swiss Made" can survive with it's reputation moving into the future.
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Casio Wave Ceptor - timekeeping accuracy redefined
We've now got eight Wave Ceptor watch models from Casio available. These remarkable watches synchronise their time with Radio stations that use Atomic Clocks for the ultimate in timekeeping accuracy.
Using an Atomic Clock to regulate means these watches should not lose or gain more than one second in, would you believe, a million years. This is timekeping accuracy on a totally new level.
A lot of the models have dual analogue/digital displays, offer World Time, Stopwatch, Backlight and many other features.
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