If matched with the outfit, a stylish wristwatch can work wonders to enhance your look and boost your confidence like never before! With innovation, watches are being designed to do more than just let you keep track of time. Many of them, these days, display the day, date, month and year. With the myriads of brands available in the market, you have a wide choice available for your elegant looking gold or titanium watch or a funky LED one.
Know the types of Watches
Watches are basically classified into a wide variety based on their working mechanism, display and place of usage.
Mechanical Watch - operates using a series of gears with a mainspring wound up manually by hand. Automatic watches of such type make use of a swinging weight for automatic winding up.
Divers Watch – This type of watch comes handy to divers and is water resistant up to a depth marked on the dial. Their bezel is designed to rotate in one direction to enable the diver to determine the amount of dive time. Speedo Reflex Unisex Watch - 50m Water Resistance and Speedo Stroke Unisex Watch - 100 Water Resistance can be worn when you take part in water sport like swimming or scuba diving.
Jewellery Watches – Such watches are mainly made of gold or platinum and precious gems such as rubies, diamonds, emeralds, and sapphires embedded at the points of friction. These watches add glamour to your appearance especially on special occasions. A watch containing 17 jewels is considered a fine watch. ECKO Watch - Unisex Diamante Stainless Steel featuring an outer diamante rim, black stainless steel wristband and an intricately styled watch face is sure to make heads turn on you.
Analog Watches - Such watches have a second hand that moves in continuous sweeping motion or sometimes in two-second intervals to indicate the life of the batteries. Casio Ladies Analog Watch (Model LTP2065E 9AV) have multiple dials, 3-hand analog, and ensures accuracy within +/- 20 seconds a month.
Digital Watches – Such watches display the time in numerals or digits. The numbers are usually grey or black on a lighter background in a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Watch or displayed using diodes in a Light Emitting Diode (LED) Watch. Ibiza Ride Watch - Stainless Steel has 60 coloured LED lights that display the time and date, a black genuine leather strap and a function button that illuminates the time for 5 seconds when pressed once and the date when pressed twice.
Quartz Watch – A Quartz Watch is a battery-operated one commonly available at all stores and outlets. It uses a tiny quartz crystal that vibrates at a very stable frequency to show the time.
Automatic Watch – This is a self-winding watch that uses the motion of your wrist to automatically wind up the watch.
Pocket Watches – Such watches are generally attached to a watch chain about thirteen inches long. The chain is usually clipped to a vest or belt on one end while the watch is kept inside the pocket.
Sports Watches – Such watches come with special characteristics; designed for use by people engaging in sporting activities. Sports watches are always water-resistant, and made of highly durable material with wide bracelets. Speedo Sport Watch Unisex 50 Metres Water Resistant has a soft flexible rubber contouring the wrist to ensure utmost comfort to you.
Speciality Watches – Such watches are designed to serve specific purposes to people. A nurse's watch or an exercise watch is made of stainless steel, usually water resistant and has a red sweep second hand to enable easy reading of pulse rates. Watches designed for pilots and racecar drivers have additional functions such as calculators, telephone directories. Polar F4 Ladies Heart Rate Monitor is a small watch featuring all heart rate necessities, calorie expenditure, and a stopwatch.
Choose what suits best a person
Before buying a watch, it is advisable to be clear about the type and the purpose for which you desire one. Various brands offer a wide variety from which you can pick the watch that suits you best.
Kids Watches – These watches are designed purely with fun in mind. Children's watches are usually come in robust, eye catching and trendy bright colours. Jacques Farel Safari Kids Watch is a good choice for your child's first light weighted analogue watch featuring animal faces. Lorus Kids Digital Watch 50m W/R Blue Rubber Band is also a good buy for your child!
Ladies Watches – Such watches designed especially for the ladies are more colorful, attractive and appealing compared to men’s watches. Ladies Esprit Watch with Diamantes is sophisticated and classically designed with Quartz movement and a stainless steel bracelet to provide a comfortable wrist fit. Casio Ladies MS Watch (Model MSG1010D 1BV) featuring hourly time signal, auto-calendar, and E-Data memory, is resistant to shock and water up to 100 meters. Pipeline Ladies Watch with Hibiscus Design has a pretty blue dial with hibachis design and a metal bracelet with adjustable links.
Men Watches – Such watches designed for the men usually have big dials with a wide strap. Whether you want to evoke simple formal elegance with a leather wristwatch, a fashionable one or own a computerized multi-function watch, you have a large collection from which you can make a choice. Tommy Hilfiger Mens Watch Black Leather Band Bayhead 1710059 is a stylish and contemporary watch with a sporty edge, which can be used for professional or everyday casual wear. Men s Esprit Watch with Date Display featuring a large dial making use of Quartz movement, date and seconds display provides comfortable wrist fit for all ages.
Unisex Watches – Such watches are gender-blind or designed for use by all irrespective of gender. Guess 20th Anniversary Unisex Watch Style 90144G3 has stainless steel fitting, silver dial and swarovski crystals to ensure maximum brilliance and quality. You can choose to go in for Guess Unisex Watch Brown Face Silver Case Brown Leather Band. GShock Unisex Tyre Tread Black Band Blue Face Watch is a 200M water resistant watch that can display time from 29 time zones (27 cities). It also features city code display, and daylight saving on/off.
Choose your strap material
Gone are the days when watches were available with black leather straps alone! These days gorgeous, trendy and durable straps matching your outfit colour are available in different materials.
Canvas – This is a heavy, closely woven fabric, which differs from other heavy cotton fabrics, such as twill. Straps made out of this are very durable.
Velcro - This is the brand name for Hook-and-Loop fastener used for connecting your straps. Velcro is usually available in sports and kids watches to enable easy fastening. Your choices for watches with Velcro fasteners are Lorus Gents Watch 100m W/R Green Velcro Strap or Lorus Gents Watch 100m W/R Stainless Steel Case Blue Velcro Strap.
Leather – This supple and strong material is found in most watches since they are durable and give a formal look. GUESS Watch with Pink Leather Strap (60387L1) features a brushed silver case and a sunray vanilla bean dial. Fossil Analogue Watch with Genuine Leather Strap (Model JR8530) can also be a good choice. Pipeline Ladies / Girls Watch Pink Leather Cuff Design is a gorgeous feminine watch with a funky twist that looks great and is comfortable to wear.
Platinum – Being among the most precious metals on earth, platinum or white metal watches are exquisite and an absolute luxury.
White Gold – This is an alloy of gold with light gray colour, containing palladium, platinum or nickel that gives it more silvery shine. A white gold watch on your wrist is sure to enhance your look.
Yellow Gold – This is a traditionally popular gold used in a fusion of gold and stainless steel or other precious metal combinations. Yellow gold watches may be found in 14 karat or 18 karat. Caddy Design - Pebbles Watch with Gold Frame Mother of Pearl Face is water resistant. FORZIERI Piccadilly - Mother of Pearl Dial Gold Watch is a glamorous and stunning timepiece that is designed with Swarovski Crystals and a stylish stainless steel buckle. You can get Citizen Ladies Watch Gold Face Gold Bracelet with 3 years warranty.
Stainless steel – This highly durable and rust resistant metal is polished or matte finished to give your watches a different look. FORZIERI Womens Black Square Dial Stainless Steel Watch is designed with an elegant black dial. Casio Gents Duo Square White Face Stainless Steel Bracelet is designed with 30 telememo pages, 3 independent daily alarms and battery with a lifetime of 10 years.
Nylon – A wide variety of watches are made using this plastic, which is very strong, has good oxygen and aroma barrier properties and provides excellent clarity and stiffness. Lorus Youth Sport Watch Blue Face Blue Nylon Strap can be considered as a viable option for Nylon watches.
Rose Gold - This alloy of gold contains higher percentage of copper to give it a rose or pink hue. Rose gold watches are available in a wide variety. You can choose Jag Ladies Watch Rectangle White Face Rose Gold Bracelet or Caddy Design - Mottle Watch with Rose Gold Frame Mother of Pearl Face, available with straps featuring pink, saddle or cream colours.
Things to consider while purchasing a watch
Features and brand – You have to analyse if your purchase is based on specific features, brand or both.
Easy winding - Check to make sure if the watch winds effortlessly and the crown is big enough to grip easily. If the watch does not smoothly wind up, you can take a hint that it will only get worse with time.
Scratch-free – Make sure there are no scratches on the case, crystal, dial or back.
Crystal Thickness – Checking the thickness of the crystal is a must because thin glass is more prone to scratches and can easily break off. A thick mineral glass or sapphire alleviates such cases.
Good warranty - Ensure that your watch comes with a long warranty period. In case you find defects in your watch, you can avail free service within the warranty period.
Cleaning care and maintenance
Never leave your watch in extreme hot or cold temperatures. Keep it away from magnets, especially watches of the quartz type.
Clean your watch regularly to remove sweat, dirt, and oil. Wipe the crystal, case, and band with a soft cloth. Leather bands benefit from skin oil, but it is always essential to clean them of dirt. Clean metal bands with soap, water, or a soft brush.
Take your mechanical watch to a skilled or authorized person when gears need cleaning and for regular gear maintenance every three to five years.
A careful co-relation of the points above with what you are looking for in your Watch will help you make the right pick at Getprice!
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