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Designer Watches are Here to Stay for Long

Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Pankaj Mohan asked:


In the era of digital science, globalization and e-commerce, man’s life has stopped being the same old phenomenon. This starts looking more evident, if you compared today’s life with that of a quarter century ago. Apparently, we have more FM radio stations beaming out programs today, more digital cameras capturing human forms and nature, and more and more DVD players and iPods getting sold than ever before. Man’s life has surely been moving through a fast lane since we began living in the new millennium. This observation should stand true, at least, in the case of the developed and transforming nations.

One wonders how far in these circumstances could the age-old gadgets like wrist watches continue to survive on? One has got advanced cell phones that could conduct an amazing number of jobs, including time-keeping, if one tapped their fingers a few times around them. In fact, there is no need of even troubling one’s fingers these days, with so much of wireless technology playing its role. So where does the future of a mere time-keeping device like a wrist watch lie ahead in this transforming scenario? The answer could be found by affirming to the view that wrist watches were not solely time-keeping devices, but also a way of fashioning. This aspect becomes very clear if one looked inside the world of today’s designer watch segment. In fact, there are no simpler wrist watches available in the market anymore. Only brands of designer watches and their lookalikes are what one should expect to come across in the arena of watch industry these days.

You may have some very amazing watch designs to choose from a given variety of Rolex, Seiko, Von Dutch watches, Polanti watches, Giantto watches and similar other international brands. They make watches of all shades, sizes and price-tags that you may have the stamina to withstand with. All these companies offer designer watches that might range from several hundred to several thousand US dollars depending on one’s purchasing power. One may always select a designer watch either from a male or a female category that all these watch brands come forward with.

Besides, these companies make designer watches for all events in your life - from vacationing to partying, from getting into romance to marrying and from attending one’s workplace to having an evening out with somebody. Each of these occasions could be enhanced by carrying out a careful selection of the chosen designer watch styles. One might even get to have a custom watch designed by selecting a dial and a band from a given set of accessories. Moreover, some companies are also offering inexpensive watches these days starting from as little as $50.

With the millions of cell-phone users roaming throughout the world, designer watches are also being forced to include features like video games, digital cameras and calculators apart from being time-keeping machines. Various other features such as a digital display system, chronograph and an ability to withstand shock, water and scratch could also be seen inducted in the contemporary watch designs. The market for designer watch names like Polanti watches, Von Dutch watches and Giantto watches is continuing to grow as the world economy gains momentum with each passing year, and there are enough reasons to believe that this trend might continue to remain on the same course for many years to come now.



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Would you Pay £3,500 for a Broken Watch?

Thursday, December 11th, 2008


How well off would you have to be to pay £3,500 for a watch that doesn’t even tell time?

You can test your wealth at an auctioneers in Birmingham. They are selling a Cartier watch that has stopped telling time, but is valued at up to £3,500.

Fellows & Sons is putting on a wrist and pocket watches sale Monday 22nd October 2007: http://www.fellows.co.uk

There is a second Cartier for sale. It’s a snip at up to £2,000… and it even works! See the full wrist and pocket watches range in the online catalogue here http://www.fellows.co.uk/ShowAuction.asp?sAuctionNumber=909.

If both Cartier watches sell for their top estimated value, they will got for a combined £5,500.

The first watch is valued at up to £3,500. It’s a gentleman’s 18 carat gold Roadster chronograph automatic wrist watch with black Roman numerals and hands with luminescent hour and minute hands. It has an 18 carat gold Cartier link bracelet with hidden butterfly clasp. There are many wear and tear marks, it has a build up of moisture in the case, and the watch isn’t currently running.

The second Cartier watch is in much better condition, and is valued at £1,500 to £2,000. It is a gentleman’s steel cased automatic Santos 100, and has a large square face with stylised Roman numerals. It is fitted to a Cartier black leather strap with a butterfly clasp, and comes with a box and papers.

There are a total of 472 items up for sale.

If you can’t make it to Birmingham to buy, you can monitor the wrist and pocket watches sale with a real time audio feed, and bid online here: http://www.fellows.co.uk/home/Internet-Buying.asp.



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Heuer Watches are as Popular as Ever

Thursday, November 20th, 2008


Some believe they are the best of the many Swiss watch brands. It seems, once you’re a Heuer person, there’s no going back.

The firm, now known as TAG Heuer when TAG bought it in 1985, has been winning people over since being formed in 1860.

An example of its continuing popularity will be seen at a wrist and pocket watches sale being held at Fellows & Sons auctioneers in Birmingham: http://www.fellows.co.uk.

During the sale on Monday 22nd October 2007, they have two Heuer Carrera chronograph watches up for sale – with a potential combined value of £2,850.

You can view the full range in the wrist and pocket watches online catalogue: http://www.fellows.co.uk/ShowAuction.asp?sAuctionNumber=909.

The firm also encourages intern bids for its real life auctions: http://www.fellows.co.uk/home/Internet-Buying.asp.

The first Heuer is valued at up to £2,000. It’s a gentleman’s 18 carat gold automatic Carrera chronograph wrist watch with a brushed finish dial and two black subsidiary dials. The date is at the 6 o’clock position and it has a tachymeter outer ring. The watch is fitted to an 18 carat rice link bracelet with folding deployment clasp.

The other Heuer watch is a gentleman’s Carrera automatic chronograph wrist watch with a dark blue dial. Again the date is at the 6 o’clock position; it has an orange fly back seconds hand, and an outer tachymeter. The watch has been fitted with a Breitling leather strap. It is valued at between £750 and £850.

The two watches are a couple of the highlights of the 472 items for sale in the wrist and pocket watches auction.



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