Best Watches Ever

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Posted on: 2007-05-31 by Consuela Taisia

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A watch is a small portable timepiece that displays the time, and sometimes the day, date, month and year. In the past, these often took the shape of pocket watches with or without a metal chain, precious or not, which today are seldom carried or worn. In modern usage, watch is usually a contraction of wristwatch, a term for the most popular style of timekeeping gadget worn on the wrist of the designated wearer.

BUT...

Now we have cell phones… so, do we still need watches?

Even if cell phones seem to invade the world and also display the day, date, month and year, some of them being able to reset the time after radio waves and they do a lot of other things, I do believe people will keep wearing watches. At the end, is such a piece of jewelry!

BUT...

Are watches still used?

The stores answer to this question with a large variety of watches having a different range of prices, from tens to hundreds and hundreds to thousands. They can be brand name or "no name" watches, they can be big or small, silver or gold colored even made from precious metals with precious stones. There are dress watches, fashion watches, sport or cool and many more.

I doubt it's someone able to say he/she never desired for A watch: a special one, an expensive one, or just a simple one. Let's take a look at Forbes "The World's Best Watches":

• Cool Watches
• Dress Watches
• Fashion Watches
• Ladie's Watches
• OVER-THE-TOP Watches
• Sport Watches

Cool Watches

T-Touch by Tissot (Swiss watch, starting price: $550)



IWC Spitfire Chronograph Automatic (Swiss) – starting at $5,100



Grande Chronomaster XXT Open by Zenith (Swiss) starting at $6,900

Dress Watches

Ventura by Hamilton is an American dress watch starting at $495



Cartier Roadster by Cartier is a $3,950 French dress watch (and chronograph version starting at $6,000)



Swiss Royal Eagle Day & Date is a $15,900 memorable Vacheron Constantin watch

Fashion Watches

Swiss Baume& Mercier – Hampton City (starts at $1,795)



Italian fashion watch: Luminor Base by Panerai (starts at $3,250)



American fashion watch: Jacob&Co. Five Time Zone Watch – starts at $8,000

Ladie's Watches

Deco Diamond by MW by Michelle (American ladie's watch) – model starting at $1,095



Swiss Reverso Duetto by Jaegger-LeCoultre – price starting at $5,150



Swiss Blancpain – Flyback Chrono starting at $8,600

OVER-THE-TOP Watches

Swiss Patek Philippe – Grand Complications 5059 (price starting at $45,500)



Swiss Audemars Piguet – Royal Oak Day-Date starting at: $56,000



Swiss Girard Perregaux – Vintage 1945 Tourbillon – price starting at an amazing $99,500

Sport Watches

X6-HR Finnish Suunto – a sport watch starting at $499



Swiss Tag Heuer sport watch: the well-known 2000 Aquagraph starting at $2,650



Bentley Motors Chronograph by Breitling (Swiss), $5,470

To sum up:

1. 12 out of 18 "The World's Best Watches" submitted by Forbes are Swiss watches. Not surprised, but surprised in fact that this list does not contains any Rolex or Omega watches.
2. In order to have one of the "The World's Best Watches" you could pay as low as $495 for an Ventura by Hamilton, but the average price is $15,020
3. Most expensive watch listed by Forbes: Vintage 1945 Tourbillon by Girard Perregaux (starting price at $99,500), but, if you want my un-experiented personal opinion, I'll rather chose a $500 T-Touch by Tissot or a 2000 Aquagraph by Tag Heuer at $2,650.
   How about you?

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