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Guide to Choosing a Watch
Choose A Watch According To Style And Purpose
A watch represents your style and your lifestyle, just like the clothes you wear or the car you drive. Although small, this accessory has an important meaning in completing the style and enhancing the personality of the owner.
The watch you choose should be suitable for the activities you intend to use it for. If your main purpose is sports, you may consider shock-resistant watches. If you use your watch for work and play, do you need water resistance ? If so, how much water resistance does it need?
And more importantly, how much do you want to spend on a watch? $100 or $1000 price tag delivers durability as well as accuracy and style. When choosing and buying a watch , is price or style more important to you? Brand can play a big role in determining the right watch for you. Brand choice can be very subjective and will vary from person to person. Ultimately, it comes down to how you perceive a brand and what it represents, do you want a watch that is high style or has a history of its own, a modern or traditional line, or an affordable price that fits your budget.
Here are some tips to help you choose the right watch:
1. First of all, let’s talk about body shape:
– For people with tall figures and round wrists: You should choose round-faced watches with leather straps or small metal straps to harmonize your figure. The watch face should have many small clocks such as: Seconds counter, Minute counter with Date calendar and bright-colored watch face will make you strong and extremely attractive
– Tall but big wrists: You should choose square-faced watches with leather straps or small-link stainless steel straps that will look better on your wrist.
– People with small bones and round wrists: Round-faced watches with leather or stainless steel straps and small eyes are the most beautiful. The watch hands are soft and delicate, the dial has Roman numerals.
– You are tall with large wrists: Look for large watch models, wide faces, many hands, wide leather straps or large stainless steel straps.
– An edgy, strong person: Look for sporty watch models, with bold colored dials and simple but strong hour markers.
2. Skin Color:
– People with light skin: Should wear dark-faced watches, or watches with dark brown leather straps or white stainless steel straps. If you like gold-plated water, choose watches with bright faces and dark-colored water plating.
– Dark skin or hairy wrists: Choose watches with bright faces to stand out. Gold-plated straps and cases are even more beautiful
3. Personality:
– Romantic people: Choose soft, gentle watches with stones for example. In addition, you can choose watches with a slightly different style to create a new excitement for yourself.
– Practical people: Should choose elegant, polite watches with clear, even simple patterns on the dial
– For people with personality: People who like to explore new changes will be very suitable for unique, individual, even a bit eccentric watch models to keep your mind active and open.
– A person who is innocent, cheerful and easy to approach: Choosing a watch model that is cute, elegant and not too unconventional is most suitable.
4. Choose a watch that matches your outfit:
– Leather strap, digital or digital watches are suitable for everyday communication combined with popular outfits. You should also refresh by choosing sporty watches for comfort.
– Men should wear black strap watches , combined with black or gray suits. With brown outfits, choose brown strap watches. Likewise, metal strap watches should go with light-colored, white suits.
– You can use sports watches for your active dressing style such as jogging shorts, loose t-shirts… These watches should be waterproof and have digital numbers, ensuring your sweaty activities as well as your workouts.
– For women when wearing dresses, should combine with women watches with silver or gold straps in the form of “Bangles” with glass faces will make you more feminine and elegant. Should not use electronic watches or watches with electronic numbers.
5. Work:
– For office workers or those whose jobs do not require much travel: You are a polite person, from words to objects. The polite, elegant Classic watch models, leather straps, white or black dials, Roman numerals with a calendar are very suitable for you.
– If you are a businessman, often interacting with partners: Show off your elegance and a bit of your unique personality with high-end watches . If you are over 40 years old, you should wear a Classic – Automatic watch. The watch bezel is made of 18K solid gold with a leather strap, a simple dial with a calendar showing punctuality and reliability will enhance your image in the eyes of your partners as a professional and more respected person
– Your job is technical or sports: You should choose relatively complicated watch models, large and unique with many features such as stopwatch, etc.
– Artists and artists in general: A unique, unusual watch with a mother-of-pearl dial and diamond hour markers. Especially for female artists, choosing a watch with a diamond bezel will be a good choice for your image.
– You work in money and finance: Gold-plated, diamond-studded or precious stone-studded watches will make your fortune more prosperous and lucky.
If you can afford it, you should buy yourself many different watch lines such as: Sports, Classic, Fashion will help you easily combine with outfits and suitable for different activities. You should choose watches that fit snugly on your wrist (and do not move up and down when you swing your arm), without leaving a mark on your wrist. Shiny silver watches are best suited for dark skin, gray, silver, and blue are ideal for wearing at night. Gold watches with browns, beiges, tans, and other earth tones should be worn during the day.
And more than that, WHAT IS YOUR STYLE? Discover yourself and create your own STYLE!
6 Popular Types of Tourbillon
With the development of watchmaking technology, more and more different types of Tourbillon have appeared. Below are the 6 most popular mechanical rotating cage types:
1. Single-Axis Tourbillon
The single-axis tourbillon, also known as the single-axis tourbillon, is the most traditional type of tourbillon. Its cage is mounted on a single axis and is held in place by bridges above and below. This design allows the cage to rotate continuously, counteracting the effects of gravity on the watch’s vital parts, thereby improving accuracy.
Some of the famous watch manufacturers with single axis Tourbillon include:
- Breguet.
- Patek Philippe.
- Audemars Piguet.
- Vacheron Constantin.
- Jaeger-LeCoultre.
- A. Lange & Sohne.
- Bulgaria.
- Richard Mille.
- Hublot.
- Cartier.
2. Multi-Axis Tourbillon
A multi-axis tourbillon, or Multi-Axis Tourbillon, is an improved version of the traditional tourbillon. It has a rotating cage mounted on multiple axes, which helps to counteract the effects of gravity on the watch’s important parts. This greatly improves the accuracy of the watch.
Some famous brands with Multi-Axis Tourbillons include:
- Girard-Perregaux Tri-Axial.
- MB&F Thunderdome Legacy Machine.
- Vianney Halter Resonance Deep Space.
3. Double-Axis Tourbillon
The Double-Axis Tourbillon is a rotating cage that rotates around two axes, each rotating once a minute. The second axis rotates parallel to the dial. It was invented by Anthony Randall in 1977, but the first wristwatch to use it wasn’t introduced until 2004, and is currently on display in Basel, Switzerland.
4. Triple-Axis Tourbillon
The Triple-Axis Tourbillon is the most complex type of rotating cage, with the regulating organ suspended in three separate cages. Each cage rotates at a different speed and direction to counteract gravity and improve accuracy. This type of Tourbillon was invented by Thomas Prescher in 2004 and is equipped in the Thomas Prescher Haute Horlogerie wristwatch.
5. Flying Tourbillon
Flying Tourbillon is a special type of Tourbillon that is crafted to “float” in the air, with no bridge on the bottom, only a thin bridge on the top. Thanks to that, it creates the feeling of floating inside the watch.
This type of Tourbillon was invented in 1920 by Alfred Helwig, a lecturer at the German Watchmaking School, and is still a popular feature among watch collectors today.
Some examples of watches using Flying Tourbillon:
- Audemars Piguet Flying Tourbillon Royal Oak Concept.
- Cartier Flying Tourbillon.
- Chopard Flying Tourbillon Alpine Eagle.
- Bovet Tourbillon Battista.
6. Gyrotourbillon
Gyrotourbillon is a type of two-axis Tourbillon, often used in watches with Perpetual Calendar and Equation Of Time functions. The first Gyrotourbillon was conceived by two watchmakers Magali Metrailler and Eric Coudray in 2002. After that, the Jaeger-LeCoultre brand applied this rotating cage on some products but produced in limited quantities.
