One for the ladies
Discussion
Recommendations welcome.
It seems that watches are a particularly male orientated subject which is probably why I'm finding it hard to find a nice watch for my beloved. Most on the market seem to be quartz for a kick off, most are from jewellery/perfume/design houses, most feature unbecoming bling and little functionality.
I don't want to force my intentions upon my better half but feel I can convince her of an articles quality and desirability if they are there, which in most cases I've seen so far, isn't.
To give you an idea, I bought her an all plain steel TAG Kirium womans watch some time ago - the white and steel matched my watch and it's offered spot on reliability (apart from a glitch with TAG CS), it's been on her wrist 99% of the time through gardening and car washing to mountain marathons and summer balls.
I'm looking to get a new watch this year and would like to offer her some suggestions if she wants to get one too. So.....
1. Pref mechanic automatic - quartz is OK but it would be nice to have a mechanical. Let's leave either in at this stage.
2. Emphasis is casual over smart - one that does both is fine. 'Sporty' perhaps describes it best.
3. Something unadorned by trinkets, diamonté, plastic or gold colouring - just steel.
4. Something from a proper watch maker.
5. Something that goes outside the standard performance envelope (a 200m depth rating for example or a chrono function or 2nd hour hand for example).
6. Price. Mmmmm. Well, anything really - for a gents watch like this I'd be looking at around a grand which is how much her watch was then - so let's say £1,500 top-ish but something great at 10% of that may still be worth looking at.
Failing this, perhaps a better dress watch and leave the TAG for casual, but still no bling....
Oh bugger it - just some recommendations for a ladies watch equivalent of some of the recommended mens watches on here!
It seems that watches are a particularly male orientated subject which is probably why I'm finding it hard to find a nice watch for my beloved. Most on the market seem to be quartz for a kick off, most are from jewellery/perfume/design houses, most feature unbecoming bling and little functionality.
I don't want to force my intentions upon my better half but feel I can convince her of an articles quality and desirability if they are there, which in most cases I've seen so far, isn't.
To give you an idea, I bought her an all plain steel TAG Kirium womans watch some time ago - the white and steel matched my watch and it's offered spot on reliability (apart from a glitch with TAG CS), it's been on her wrist 99% of the time through gardening and car washing to mountain marathons and summer balls.
I'm looking to get a new watch this year and would like to offer her some suggestions if she wants to get one too. So.....
1. Pref mechanic automatic - quartz is OK but it would be nice to have a mechanical. Let's leave either in at this stage.
2. Emphasis is casual over smart - one that does both is fine. 'Sporty' perhaps describes it best.
3. Something unadorned by trinkets, diamonté, plastic or gold colouring - just steel.
4. Something from a proper watch maker.
5. Something that goes outside the standard performance envelope (a 200m depth rating for example or a chrono function or 2nd hour hand for example).
6. Price. Mmmmm. Well, anything really - for a gents watch like this I'd be looking at around a grand which is how much her watch was then - so let's say £1,500 top-ish but something great at 10% of that may still be worth looking at.
Failing this, perhaps a better dress watch and leave the TAG for casual, but still no bling....
Oh bugger it - just some recommendations for a ladies watch equivalent of some of the recommended mens watches on here!
http://www.goldsmiths.co.uk/watchlist.asp?cid=1&am...
There's a couple of Seamasters on there that might be of use?
300m depth rating, but they are Quartz.
There's a couple of Seamasters on there that might be of use?
300m depth rating, but they are Quartz.
andy_s said:
There you go - I quite fancy the Omega Bond Seamaster (a la Asterix) - something like that would be good.
Yup - I had exactly the same brief - http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...Gassing Station | Watches | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff