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Erin Ryan asked:


Now with so many clothes designers in the watch market place, we are starting to see seasonal launches to quench the public’s insatiable need for new designer watches. But the question is, which designer watch will you be wearing this autumn and winter?

With only a few of the big designer watch companies launching their autumn winter ranges so far, we can tell you that bling is still definitely in this autumn and winter. But the days of having one watch for all occasions are now well and truly over with designers like Chanel, Gucci and Dior leading the pack of exclusive designer watches. For Chanel, the J12 still reigns supreme as the watch choice for superstar celebs, with the black ceramic version being one of the most popular options. This style comes with a large price tag and this makes the likes of the Chanel J12 and Gucci wrist wear inaccessible to many.

Companies like Guess, Diesel, DKNY and Emporio Armani are creating watches that are more accessible with their prices ranging from £70 to £350 meaning the consumer is able to build up a collection of designer watches to fit with the styles of the season. This autumn/winter the new products from these companies are diverse and eclectic with all tastes catered for.

The Emporio Armani watch brand has a long history of creating high class designer watches at fantastic prices and this is no more evident than in the 2007 autumn/winter collection. Many of the women’s watches are now diamond set and, as diamonds are a girl’s best friend, we suggest the AR3156 as the Armani watch to wear as it possesses a sufficient amount of bling and comes with a reasonable price tag of only £350. This Armani watch is the most fashionable and stylish diamond watch you will see this year.

Companies such as Guess have been creating a stir with their Swarovski crystal encrusted watches, for example the Prism and the G-mix to name but two. It isn’t hard to see why. These watches have the bling effect of diamonds without stretching your purse strings.

DKNY have also continued on the Swarovski crystal bling theme this autumn and winter with a range of watches that are full of bling. The watches to look out for this season are the NY3959, a watch that blends the style for large watches with the bling effect and the NY3972, which takes bling style to another level with its black pvd case and black crystals.

For those who are not into Swarovski crystal and prefer a chunky, bold style, Diesel’s new launch encompasses the most dramatic styles, including the DZ5093 and DZ5095, which really capture the imagination with a plastic polymer casing making them colourful as well as bold.

Police on the other hand have created a watch for those women who love the look of black ceramic watches like those by Rado and Chanel, but without the problems that ceramic watches can have in respect to durability. The Navy and the NavyII both have PVD plated steel cases and bracelets which give the same effect as the ceramic but at a much reduced cost. Both of these watches have already been seen in many a glossy magazine as the most wanted watches autumn and winter 07, so don’t be surprised if you can’t get your hands on one this Christmas.

This season’s watch launches have been diverse with bigger watches player their part as well as those with the bling effect so now is a perfect time to buy a watch and with this guide you will be able to stay ahead of the crowd.



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Erin Ryan asked:


This summer has seen some of the most interesting developments in the watch industry with designer watches leading the change in the watch fashion world. Designers watch labels like Dolce & Gabbana and DKNY launching summer ranges that wowed the public and have seen watch sales sore and now with other labels like Miss Sixty joining these well established brand names the choice on the high street this season has been even greater for the general public.

Women’s designer watches have really changed the consumer’s perception of watches this summer, with the likes of the Italian fashion legends Dolce & Gabbana launching their summer season styles in conjunction with Italy’s largest watch manufacture Binda Co to much acclaim.

Watches like the Turtle and the Prime Time have captured the essence of the Dolce & Gabbana wearer and have changed the way that the women look at designer watches. Women’s designer watches now double up as pieces of jewellery as well as timepieces.

Other companies have followed suit with the likes of Fossil launching a new range of DKNY watches which have all the wow factor you would expect from a product baring the DKNY name. With a strong presence of Swarovski crystal in the DKNY range this summer Fossil ltd have created watches that women will want and aspire to the likes of the NY3746 and the NY3950 DKNY’s womens designer watches have pushed the DKNY label further into the consumer mind and have made women want these watches.

This season’s new watches have come with high profile advertising campaigns both on the Television and in press. The use of the media gas pushed the designer brands into the public realm even more and has validated the designer brands importance in the watch industry.

Dolce & Gabbana open this season with sexually charged Television campaign which pushed the profile of D&G watches and particularly the Prime Time which has been difficult for retailer to keep on the shelf. Other companies like Police brought in the high profile figure of Antonio Bandarass and Breil have used high profile rock star JK and Eva.



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The Art of Measuring Time

The history of the watch begins with the history of time. The history of time is covered in the study of horology: the art or science of measuring time or of making timepieces. An expert in horology is called a horologist and the fear of time or deadlines is horophobia. Okay, that one isn’t real, but it seems plausible.

Wherever they find evidence of societies, no matter how primitive, they find evidence of how members of those civilizations kept track of time; some used sticks with notches others used huge stones set by the movement of the stars. For ancient and prehistoric civilizations it wasn’t necessary to know the hours and minutes, but days and seasons were important, or so it seems by the evidence left behind.

As time progressed, so did the need for more exact measurement of that time. The first clocks didn’t have dials or hands; they chimed on a regular basis to signify it was time for church services or meals. As a matter of fact, the name “clock” is derived from the Middle Dutch word for bell, “klocke.” Of course, there were the silent timekeepers such as sundials and hourglasses. Water clocks were used in ancient Egypt and then in Greece. At least one type of water clock was being utilized as late as the 20th century.

The one thing in common with all clocks is that they all need motion. This does not include the earliest methods of keeping time: Stonehenge is not a clock. Early clocks used a mechanism called a verge and foliot beam, mechanisms which were much too heavy and large to make portable. At or around 1300 the clocks had no faces or hands or even a dial, but were set to chime at selected intervals. Around 1455-1488 spring-driven clocks are though to have been invented. The earliest surviving model is dated 1525.

Around 1500, then, is when clocks could be made small enough to be portable. A dumb bell shaped arm that was set on a center pivot or a spoked balance wheel replaced the foliot. Although no one can pinpoint the precise date the watch was invented, most horologists think the first one was crafted by Peter Henlein of Nuremburg. Dates vary, but somewhere in the early 1500’s, perhaps as early as 1510, but probably closer to the later date of 1524. Henlein is credited with the development of spring-powered clocks. Although inaccurate, they were much lighter than mechanical clocks built prior to their invention and the convenience of portability outweighed the importance of accuracy. The earliest existing model has the date “1548” with the initials of the artist who created it: Casper Werner, also of Nuremburg. It had Roman numerals and Arabic numerals on the dial and only an hour hand. The inaccuracies of the spring mechanism rendered a minute hand useless.

Many of the early watches were “neck watches” as opposed to wristwatches, they were expensive and showy and the owners wore them as fashion accessories. A portrait of Henry the Eighth shows him wearing a watch on a chain. Elizabeth the First is said to have worn a ring watch that had a metal sliver that would scratch her as an alarm device. Watch making as a profession sprang from the roots of jewelry making, with its members starting out as apprentices to masters in the guild.

Wristwatches came later. Historians seem to think they were invented as fashion accessories, too, jeweled and yet functional bracelets for the upper class. An existing example of this is a wristwatch once owned by Napoleon’s Josephine; it was created in 1806 by a Parisian jeweler and was encrusted with emeralds and pearls. It was almost a hundred years later that wristwatches became popular, and even then it was still women who were wearing them.

It was the military that brought wristwatches to the forefront for men. Pocket watches were much more popular until the late 1800’s, early 1900’s. Pocket watches were an affectation of the upper and middle classes; working class men wore the plainer, unadorned wristwatch. It was also in 1880 that the German forces ordered wristwatches for their artillery officers. The convenience of the wrist model over the pocket watch made it the timepiece of choice for most of the military during World War I. As military maneuvers became more refined and depended on accuracy and coordinated timing, watches became more vital to the war effort.

Aviators were great proponents of the wristwatch. Santos-Dumont, an aviator, was a friend of the watchmaker Louis Cartier and he collaborated with his friend to invent a perfect watch for flying. Cartier created the “Santos” watch in 1904, and it is thought to be the first man’s wristwatch. In 1950 Rolex and Pan Am Airlines got together and created the “Pilot’s Watch.” It showed the time in three different time zones: the time as set on the standard hands, Greenwich Mean Time and one other time zone. This was accomplished by the addition of a hand that rotated every 24 hours and a rotating bezel.

All analog watches have three main components. The first is the movement, a mechanism that measures and displays the current time. They may be mechanical or electronic or a hybrid. One example of an electromechanical movement is the tuning-fork movement. It results in a watch that hums rather than ticks. The second hand on these type watches have a continuous flowing motion rather than the stop-start motion of other movements.

The second component is the dial and hands. These are the parts that display the time. These parts range from the purely functional simple black face, clear white numbers of the watch called the A-11, number one choice of US Airmen in WWII, to the highly adorned enameled faces of the watches worn by the upper class ladies in the past. In between, we find a variety that ranges from the museum piece Movado face to multiple dials of diving watches and complicated chronometers.

Finally, there is the case. This is comprised of a middle, bezel, glass and back and is primarily for protecting the movement and the dial and hands. Along with the face, the case is what gives a watch its “look.”

Digital watches were introduced in 1970. The Hamilton Watch Company and a company called Electro-data introduced the “Pulsar” which had a red LED display, was 18-carat gold and sold for the sum of $2,100! In 1973 Seiko introduced a 6-digit LCD display, which allowed for a display that was always visible as opposed to having to push a button to see the time, an inconvenience of the LED display. Digital watches were really a novelty, an expensive one, at that, until 1975, when Texas Instruments started mass production of a twenty-dollar model, eventually sending Pulsar back to building analogue quartz versions. In the 1980’s digital watch technology soared and saw the advent of calculator watches, television displays and thermometers. High tech innovations since then include versions that can download data to computers, call your home phone and take your voice commands. Not ever fully realized are the **** Tracy communication models, but if cell phones shrink down to strappable sizes, well, you never know.

Keeping track of time is as normal a part of daily life as eating or drinking. And even as younger generations look to their cellphones or PDA’s to check the time, their parents and grandparents still give them watches and clocks on momentous occasions such as graduations, birthdays and weddings. Watches are going back to their roots as a symbol of status as opposed to that of purely functional timepieces.

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Over the centuries clocks have been used as a status symbol by those who wear them. Their precision, elegance and convenience are just some of the attributes that clocks and watches represent. Often they are bought purely for their aesthetic looks. and at other times they are bought because of their technical attributes like being precise to the last second or even millisecond. This is what makes clocks and watches so collectible and in some cases they can command high sums of money.

Whether you collect the new high precision watches or ones that come from a past era, the fact is that over the years this hobby has become a high turnover business. And collecting watches is in a lot of circles regarded as a wise form of investing.

At the start of the last century the clocks that were available for men or women were firstly pocket clocks, and then clocks that held by a pendant attached to the lining of jackets or corsets. The advent of war, industrialization, and the development of the sport activities, brought over new trends which extended to not only the way we dressed, but also how we carried our clocks.

It is said that it was a nanny who invented wrist watches at around the end of the 19th century, who fixed a clock around her wrist by using a silk band. The first watches to be made were in fact smaller models of pocket clocks that were fitted with a leather strap. Once this product hit the market newer designs started to be produced based around this same concept.

It was Louis Cartier who first made the kind of watches we see today when he created a watch for a flying pioneer hero by the name Santos Dumont. By 1911 this same type of watch was on general sale. That same type of watch became the blueprint of what wrist watches look like to this day.

Soon after the design of wrist “clocks” began to diversify away from the classical round shape that had been in vogue up until that time. From the Cartier classical wrist watch other makes of watch started to emerge which were characterized by their shape. Movado is the perfect example of these new designs when it came out with the “Polyplan” shaped watch. Then came the famously and cryptically called “clock reference n. 1593″ by Patek Philippe which was a rectangular shaped watch.

From 1913 onwards more and more watches started to be developed in all shapes and styles. From the “gondola” watch of Patek Phillipe to Louis Cartiers’ “Tank”; named thus because it was inspired by the shape of English armored cars of the time. These are watches which are very much sought after. There were other numerous watch makers like Audemars Piguet, Vacheron Constantin who along with Patek Philippe and Cartier came out with many other designs which added other features to the watches like lunar phases, month and day most of which are found in modern watches now.

Of course we could not mention wrist watches without mentioning the most famous of them all: the Rolex watch. In the 1920s Rolex debuted in the world of wrist watches with the elegant Rolex Prince and its revolutionary “dual time” feature made famous for having the “seconds sector” larger than that of the minutes. At the same time Jaeger Le Coultre produced an even more advanced piece called the “Reverse”, also very revolutionary in that it could be turn 180 degrees within its case, thus protecting the crystal and dial. It became incredibly popular and was only prevented from achieving even greater success by the recession of the 1930s and the advent of world war 2.

These early watches of the 1910s to 1930s are what define all the makes of watches that we see and wear today. This short article has only scratched the surface of what is a very vast subject which has many more watch makers with diverse and revolutionary designs. However it is makers like Rolex, Cartier, Jaeger Le Coultre and the others mentioned that are amongst the most valuable and collectible, and should you ever be so lucky to get one then make sure you hang on to it - preferably to your wrist.



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