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One of the many side effects of working for GQ is being asked to recommend watches to strangers on a semi-regular basis. My advice is always twofold: buy what you like (unless it's being dropshipped to you via an Instagram advert) and check out our annual Watch Guide for inspiration. As it just so happens, the Guide's 2025 edition has dropped today and it's chock full of absolute bangers. That rose gold IWC Ingenieur is speaking to me in a deeply unhealthy way...
Whether you're after affordable British bangers or the most dazzling Swiss wonders ever created, this year's starriest releases deliver. We spoke to the world's horological heroes to find out how
This year's burgundy Black Bay 58 draws inspiration from a red Submariner prototype in Tudor's museum. It's a watch we've been fascinated by since we first saw it and, like so many Tudor Black Bays, is a killer pound-for-pound proposition.
GQ editors, Men of the Year luminaries and Google Trend Experts all know it: the puffer jacket is truly in its salad days. Alongside camel coats and suede bomber jackets, puffers of all kinds topped the list of most-searched menswear terms in the UK this year. Among them were two of our (and one of Adam Sandler's) favourites: The North Face and Weekday.
Diary of an undercover watch geekWatch communities have long had a bad rep for being closed off and stuffy, not to mention judgy. To find out whether that's still the case, we sent an aspiring watch guy with next-to-no horological knowledge to one of London's newest watch meet-ups
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