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The English and Their Watches - Part 1
In his illuminating 2014 study, The English and Their History: The First Thirteen Centuries , University of Cambridge history professor Robert Tombs…
Could your stamp collection answer your borrowing needs?
As is becoming increasingly well-known, peer-to-peer lender Unbolted offers wholly non-discriminatory secured asset loans, with customers placing a v…
The rising value of rare books and manuscripts
Rare manuscripts and first-edition books constitute one of the valuable personal possession categories that we offer secured asset loans against at p…
Release cash from fine wines with an Unbolted loan
Independent art dealers, as many of them will testify, frequently find themselves in need of fast access to cash. Making a killer purchase on behalf …
Unbolted accepts new Apple products as collateral for borrowing
Need to raise a few hundred pounds fast? Plenty of people find themselves in a similar position, and many are tempted to take out a payday loan and s…
Don’t pawn your valuable asset for cash. Unbolt it!
There’s no getting away from it: January can be a brutal month for many people. The festivities of the holiday season have ended, you have to switch …
How to Buy It
Expert Tips on Watches
All watch brands with a very few exceptions will depreciate immediately after purchase. There are a few such as the grand complication Patek Philippes which are in such short supply and high demand that they can immmediately be sold for a profit.
Reissued retro - the new cool!
On the 25th December 1969, the mechanical watch became obsolete when Seiko launched their first commercial quartz wrist watch. Nearly 50 years on and that obsolete technology is in remarkably rude health, and new watch launches are stepping back in time.
Cash, Cheque or Rolex..?
Urban legend is that British special forces members travel to remote parts of the world with steel Rolexes as emergency 'tradable community', but a more modern take on the "Rolex as currency" is the practise of buying a sought-after model to take abroad instead of carrying cash.