About Me
Who am I?
So, my name is Will and I would consider myself to be a watch enthusiast who is living in the North West of England, in Cumbria. I have always enjoyed watches throughout my life, however, it wasn't until a few years ago when I bought my first luxury watch and caught the bug for it. Since then, my interest in watches and horology has peaked and I found myself spending an absurd amount of my days looking into potential dream watches, new-to-me microbrands and all round interesting pieces.
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Why did I create Time Prize?
There was a few contributing factors into setting up Time Prize; I get a lot of advertisements for watch competitions on my social media which always used to tempt me until I went on the website to see the same old Submariner after trying to locate it through hundreds of other prizes of cars, clothes and bikes. Now don't get me wrong, I would have loved to win a Rolex Submariner for 99p but I thought that I would much prefer the chance to win a variety of watches a true watch enthusiast has chosen. For more personal reasons, I loved the idea that Time Prize would allow me to scratch the itch of researching and buying watches but also benefitting others by giving them away at the price of a coffee!

What are my favourite watch brands?
At the minute (as we all know this can be a forever changing answer) I would class my favourite watch brands as:
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Tudor - I think they have been doing a really good job over the past couple of years stepping away from the "Rolex sister brand" title and creating watches of their own calibre without the luxury snobbery
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Christopher Ward - they never fail to deliver competitive design and price at such good quality. Their new releases seem to be better value for money each time and the community they hold is a great one to be a part of.
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Zelos - now Zelos have really filled a gap in the market for quirky yet subtle dial designs. I think if they improve some of their quality issues and carry on going against the watch norms, they will be out of the microbrand bracket very soon.