The luxury watch business is still an eye-popping moneymaker, with the world-famous Rolex selling $4.7 billion in merchandise annually.
While many people use their cell phones now as their principal timekeepers, many still strap on a watch for style reasons, utility, athletic reasons, or to monitor their health every day.
The types of watches people wear are as varied as people themselves. Buying a Rolex watch is still a major fashion statement, needed for military precision, and no longer needs a wind or even a battery replacement in many cases.
However, remember the best wrist watches are the ones you’ll use.
In the following article, we’ll look at some popular and classic forms of watches and help you decide on one that is right for you.
Dress Watches
Elegant and eye-catching, these types of watches are made to accent your formal wear. For women, dress watches are usually slim and sleek and often adorned with gemstones, precious metals, and designer style.
Men’s dress watches can have just as many high-end fixtures as their female counterparts but are usually much more prominent and can have many more features like multiple hands, month and date features, and other extras.
Men’s dress watches are sometimes oversized to accentuate their value and to ostentatiously draw attention to the man’s jewelry.
Saiko, Orient, Rolex, and Casio offer dress watches. The website H2HUB Watches has many examples of these kinds of watches.
Field Watches
These watches are built tough and streamlined for ease of use and stay put. With scratch-resistant faces and rugged bands, these kinds of watches were first issued to American and British soldiers during World War I. This continued throughout the 20th Century.
Expect a good field watch to not only have a second hand but day and date, and you should expect these watches to be water-resistant, if not waterproof.
Many people would consider the higher-end of these timepieces to almost qualify as dress watches because of the amount of solid metal and rigid glass they are made from.
A variation of field watches is pilot watches. Pilot watches often have chronographs that act as stopwatches for precision timing.
Dive Watches
These sporty and appealing watches often have a chunky dial around the outside that you can set to remind yourself of how much time you have spent underwater.
Dive watches are made to withstand water, pressure, and corrosion and are some of the most rugged watches you can buy. Some dive watches also calculate your depth.
Digital Watches
These inexpensive watches broke out in the 1980s and are still some of the most popular starter watches. A digital watch can tell the time, day, and date, make for a great alarm device, and some can even act as calculators and game-playing devices.
Inexpensive and utilitarian, a digital watch is a good choice if you need a timepiece that you don’t plan to worry about.
Smart Watches
Today, one of the fastest-growing types of watches is smartwatches. These can look completely digital or combine with classic looks with digital functions.
Smartwatches are minicomputers and can either sync up with your cellphone or act as standalone devices. These watches are great for monitoring your daily steps, heartbeat, and playing music.
However, these watches can be expensive and are often outdated in a few years.
Types of Watches for Every Taste
With all these types of watches to choose from, you might ask yourself, “Which watch is the best for me?”
The answer here is the one you’ll use. A watch is an excellent accessory for your wrist and can help you on your daily travels but spend some time thinking about your needs before you run out to purchase a piece of jewelry you don’t need.
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