Blogs

As the Managing Director of Oakleigh Watches Ltd I thought it right that I should kick off this series of blogs based around the Watch Box and it’s contents.

As proud Community Partners for Norwich City Football Club this season, we thought we’d have some fun and use our expertise to pick the perfect watch for each of the players based on their personality on the pitch.

If you ask anybody who knows me and my taste in watches, they will tell you that I don’t like Breitling watches.
Except, that’s no longer really true.

This short blog piece is intended to give a bit of an update on the background of what is a very interesting and unusual sports Rolex model – the Milgauss.

When I first thought of writing this blog piece in the autumn of 2020, the Rolex Explorer II 16570 was one of the most overlooked and undervalued of all modern sports Rolex watches.

Once things had started to settle post war, the 1950’s saw the next – and pretty much final – significant stage in the development of the pilot’s watch.

The next stage in the development of the Pilot’s watch focused around World War Two

This part of our blog focuses on ‘The Golden Age of Flight’ – The 1920’s

The next part of our blog features a very important period in the design if not the development of the classic Pilot’s watch – The Great War of 1914-18

In this next instalment of our watch types series we encounter the Pilot’s watch – an extremely important branch of the Sports Watch family with its own loyal fanbase and following.

Welcome back – it’s time for ‘The Dive Watch Part Three’

Welcome back – it’s time for ‘The Dive Watch Part Two’

In this short series we’re going to examine the main categories of wristwatch that you will come across on your daily horological journeys and this time it’s the ‘Dive Watch’.

The Bremont MBI is a watch that’s only available by special order for pilots who have ejected from a fighter jet using a Martin-Baker ejector seat

In this short series we’re going to examine the main categories of wristwatch that you will come across on your daily horological journeys and this time it’s the ‘Sports Watch’.

This is a 100% original one owner watch with its original bracelet, papers, booklet, box and purchase receipt – it also has an incredible history.

Those in the watch loving world often rant on about how brilliant the Audemars Piguet (that’s ‘Oh duh marr piggay’ – or ‘AP’ for short) Royal Oak is.

The 20th of March 2019 is a long awaited day in the horological calendar because that’s the day that Rolex announced the new models that they are releasing at Baselworld.

In 1970 Tudor entered the chronograph market with a watch that was very different from its Rolex Daytona brethren

At the end of the 1960’s, Heuer decided to build a less traditional timepiece that Jack Heuer described as “something out-of-the-box” and “avant-garde”.

The Cartier Santos undoubtedly deserves a place in this series of blogs as one of the most significant watches through time because it was the first in a long and prestigious line of pilot’s watches.