At Geckota our mission is to provide watch lovers, enthusiasts and collectors with a unique opportunity to own and cherish luxury and contemporary timepieces and accessories that reflect modern life.
We develop and maintain numerous class leading products, websites and social media channels while we engage with and create value for people around the world to consume and enjoy.
Jon Quinn, the founder of Geckota was driven by a passion for watches and his natural entrepreneurial spirit and he started to build the foundation of a business. While working as a software engineer, in his spare time Jon bought and sold watches on eBay.
On May 14th, 2012, the brand's domain name was registered, marking the official start of the brand's journey.
The business becomes too big for the spare room and an office is found locally. Now that the business has moved away from the house, we start to employ additional staff to help the company to grow. The company develops a range of watches in addition to replacement watch straps.
The company has 5 employees, and the Geckota K1, Geckota K2, Geckota K3 watch models are launched this year.
The Geckota K4 and Geckota ZD1 watches are released.
The Geckota K1 continues to be our best selling watch and numerous new models are released.
The company has 10 members of staff and continues to expand and moves to larger premises. The Geckota C1 is launched this year.
The company has 18 members of staff. The Geckota watch range starts to take shape and a new transactional website is launched for the brand. Several new watch models are released towards the end of the year.
The company continues to invest in new product development and launches several new watch models.
The motor-sport themed FORZO watches brand is launched and we start to build partnerships with several high profile brand ambassadors.
COVID strikes and creates a challenge. Thankfully online retailers are able to stay open but international shipping becomes unreliable and we see a drop in our international sales. Despite these challenges the business continues to grow.
We start working with OneTribe and every purchase helps to protect the rain-forest.
We now have 19 members of staff and in addition to the Geckota Watches website, we have 4 additional websites offering watch related products.
This year, BREXIT adds to the challenges of COVID and we see further drops in international sales.
With COVID now behind us, we start to get back to normal. Employees are returing to the office and production delays start to ease. Several projects that were on hold begin to materialise.
Following over a year of internal design and development we launch a new model, the Ocean-Scout.
With numberous exciting dial and strap options and a totally new case design, several of the first editions quickly sell out.
We have been working on the evolution of the range and have been posting images on social media that show off our ideas.
The new Chronotimer will now feature a mechanical movement and will be available to pre-order in October.
Our vision to be a leading, trusted and loved purveyor of attainable luxury watches and accessories. Through numerous websites and channels we have a respected, international, watch focused on-line presence.
Creative Team Leader & Photographer
“Keeping our photography as exciting as our watches and straps is our challenge, doing what I love, with an amazing team. The team works hard every day to realise our goal of taking an in-store buying experience and bringing this to an international online market.”
Order Processing Team Leader
“I’m hard working and organised and have great colleagues around me so it’s a pleasure to work with such a supportive team. My guiding principle is to be efficient and constantly strive for improvement which I do every day. We all work hard but have fun at the same time.”
