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WISHMOOR WATCHES Gustav Temple’s attention is drawn momentarily from his modest collection of vintage wristwatches, by road testing a brand-new quartz timepiece www.wishmoorwatches.com
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“For this member of the above community, it certainly made a change to wear a watch that simply tells the time accurately, doesn’t need winding up every day, doesn’t require expensive regular cleaning and won’t eventually stop working altogether, just when you’re about to catch a train”
his publication has always been careful not to bang on too much about wristwatches, purely because most other men’s magazines do so, usually to shore up watch advertisements featuring has-been actors flying aeroplanes and so forth. However, when a missive landed announcing a new wristwatch by fledgling British company Wishmoor, the watch itself immediately took the eye. And since it wasn’t bracketed in the ‘silly’ price category, we decided to investigate further. Wishmoor Watches was founded in 2018 by Richard Hayes, a chap working in the insurance market with an eye on a higher calling. A long-term admirer of the Tag Heuer Monaco,
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