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Tips for Buying Women’s Watches
Buying the right watch starts with asking yourself one main question: What’s the purpose of the watch? Here a few styles of women’s watches that can help answer that question and guide you in your search.
Sports Watch
Whether it’s cross country skiing or just your average daily work out, you need a sport watch that can tell more than just the time. For hiking or other such outdoor activities that can be long in duration, a solar powered watch with multiple alarms and a split-time stopwatch can be very helpful. Some watches also offer a digital compass to guide you on your trails. Cyclists and runners should look for built-in heart rate monitors and similar features that can track speed, mileages, and even provide location via GPS. For the fit, you want something lightweight like plastic or rubber strap. If you’re doing something in the water, you want a watch that comes with long warranty and is water resistant to at least 300 feet. Other functions to consider for sport watches include a scratch-resistant surface, a barometer, or special features that can measure oxygen intake, and energy consumption.
Dressy Watch
Most importantly here, you want the watch to match your attire. A stainless steel watch is more durable than a leather one and exhibits a sense of modern chic as well, while a two-toned gold and silver watch offers a classic design. But if you like to wear leather straps, then a traditional black or brown strap with gold or silver case is still a great look whether you’re dressing up or down. Shiny straps in crocodile, alligator or lizard leather look great as well. Other styles like bracelet links with jeweled clasps, textured dials, and those with either a touch of diamonds, crystal or pearls add a luxury touch to the watch.
Casual & Stylish
For your casual looks you can have a little more fun, so choose a watch with unique a face color, case shape, and bands. Look for lightweight materials that are also durable and waterproof for your unexpected visit to the beach or a camp out. Rubber, plastic or resin bands are popular in casual watches. They’re more durable than metal watches because they don’t absorb sweat or moisture. They are also very affordable and easy to clean. However, rubber and plastic bands take time to conform to the shape of your wrist, so they can be uncomfortable in the early going. Woven fabric bands are another alternative. They do absorb water and sweat easily, so you want to find a removable woven band that you can wash.
Work & Business
When it comes to work-ready timepieces, look for a watch with functions that will help keep you punctual. They definitely need to be easy to read, and alarms and timers come in handy when you need a reminder of that next meeting or lunch. Smaller bands and dials are usually preferred for the workplace, but if you’re a business traveler, a medium to large sized watch with multi-time zones is a good ideas. You want to keep the color of the face neutral, like a white or silver on black dial color, and the style should be versatile to match your everyday wardrobe.
Once you know the function of your watch, here are some other options you need to consider:
Analog, digital, or both
An analog watch is more classy and good look for business, dressy, and formal events. Digital Watches with LCD or LED displays are more suited for causal and sport wear. A watch with an analog-digital combination is great for daily and work related use.
Band material
Metal bands like silver, gold, titanium, or stainless steel are the most durable and can last 20 years or more. Stainless steel is the most common and less expensive of the four. At the same time, it’s also the heaviest. Titanium is more comfortable to wear because it’s lighter in weight. It’s very durable like stainless steel Gold is a soft metal, so it can be easily scratched. Silver is a bit stronger and durable than gold. However, it loses its luster and shiny quickly, so it requires more care to clean and polish.
Leather bands can last up to 5 years depending on the quality. They’re soft, flexible, and easily adjustable to contour to your wrist shape. There are more colors and textures to choose from. Cowhide leather is the most common. It can be worn formally and casually. Ostrich leather is the most sought-after luxury material for band. It has a distinctive texture that can’t be found with other leather bands.
Rubber and plastic, as mentioned before, are good for sports wear because they offer the most water resistance for extreme activities.
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