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SELECTION TIME

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About Selection Time

Selection Time is an independent editorial platform covering watches between roughly $80 and $1,000 — the part of the market where most people actually buy, and the part that gets the least serious coverage.

Updated August 20, 2026

What we do

We analyse watches, compare them against each other, and rank them for specific purposes. Every page is built on one structured database, which means a specification is entered once and appears identically in the review, the comparison table, the ranking and the Watch Finder.

The shape of the site follows the shape of the decision: discover, compare, decide, buy. If you leave having decided not to buy anything, the page still did its job.

What we are not

We are not a shop. We hold no stock, take no orders and set no prices.

We are not a press-release channel. No brand sees our copy before publication, and no brand can influence a score.

We are not a review farm. Where a piece is desk analysis of published specifications rather than time spent with the watch, we label it as such at the top of the page.

How we pay for it

Affiliate links. When you buy through a link on this site we may earn a commission from the retailer, at no additional cost to you.

That arrangement creates an obvious incentive problem, and the only honest response is structural: the score is computed from published criteria you can check, the affiliate system is entirely separate from the editorial system, and no writer sees commission data.

  • Every monetised link is marked with rel="sponsored nofollow"
  • A disclosure appears above the first commercial link on every page, not only in the footer
  • We link to watches we recommend against buying, when that is the honest answer

What we cover

Nine brands to start: Seiko, Orient, Citizen, Tissot, Hamilton, Casio, G-Shock, Bulova and Timex. The database is built to hold thousands of references across many more brands, and it will.

We cover the $80–$1,000 range because it is where specification differences still change the experience, and where a bad recommendation costs someone real money.