Watches: Your Style Guide

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  • 11/07/2012 12:00 AM

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SOLID STYLE
No tourbillons, no skeleton dials, no fancy materials. Just solid, recognisable, everlasting class.
Examples: Rolex

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PROFESSIONAL AND SPORTY  
Watches? More like professional time-keeping instruments that happen to be carried around on wrists.
Examples: Bell & Ross 

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WRIST MUSEUMS
Tributes to Swiss watchmaking, labours of love and objets d’art, pinnacle of watchmaking.
Examples: Breguet

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ACCESSIBLE HOROLOGY
Great mechanical watches don’t have to cost the earth.
Examples: Seiko

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AVANT-GRADE
Creative reinterpretations of what the anachronism known as the “watch” can be. Not for the diffident.
Examples: Christophe Claret 

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AVANT-GRADE
Creative reinterpretations of what the anachronism known as the “watch” can be. Not for the diffident.
Examples: de Grisogono 

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ELEGANT SIMPLICITY
Minimal and classic designs that will remain in style even decades later.
Examples: Movado and Jaquet Droz

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UNIQUELY MODEM
Clearly modern designs that are contemporary, exquisite and distinct.
Examples: Carl F Bucherer

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UNIQUELY MODEM
Clearly modern designs that are contemporary, exquisite and distinct.
Examples: Corum

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COMPLICATED JEWELLERY
When jewellery brands aspire for watchmaking cred, you sit up and notice.
Examples:  Bulgari