Men Fashion Watches to Complete Your Gorgeous Look

Rather than treating it as a timepiece or a way to keep time. Watches are often appreciated as a collectible works of art or a valuable piece of jewelry. Originally, wristwatches are designed as decorative bracelets for women, men usually uses pocket watches. But wristwatches became in style among men during World War I, it was easier for the military to use them than a pocket watch. Since then, it became one of the most popular fashion accessories among men for decades.

History of these watches shows that the first wristwatch for men that was created is from Cartier and they called it the Santos, named after Alberto Santos-Dumont, a pilot who personally asked Cartier to create a watch that he could use on his flights. Shortly after, the Santos became available for the public and just about every wrist watch manufacturer has made watches for men.

After creating several various markets for wristwatches, from the most expensive watches that serve mainly as personal adornment down to the most inexpensive but accurate watches mainly for its only purpose of telling the correct time. This became men fashion watches.

The conventional and appropriate men's dress watches for formal, semi-formal and informal attire are gold, simple, thin, and bare. But recently men tends to fuse all their attire in one and the high cost has led to a belief among some that expensive rugged, complicated or sports watches are also dressy because of their high price. Some fashion watches have a gem or bead cut in convex form on the crown. Some are totally made out of facetted sapphire.

Another men fashion watches is called "geek" watches. They are watches that not only tell time but are also incorporated with some computer features, satellite navigation and many other functions that may be quite removed from the simple concept of timekeeping. There's also the dual-time watch that is designed for travelers, it allows them to see what time it is at home when they are some place else.

Wearing Fashion Watches - Some of the Latest Styles For Men and Women

Could the watch become obsolete? As many use their cell phone to know the time instead of a watch, manufacturers of watches have needed to come up with ways to keep such time pieces afloat. Some strategies over the past year have been keychain watches and fashion designs for men and women. While ten years ago watches were worn for practicality, they're seen as a piece of fashion first and the practicality is an added bonus. This has been somewhat true for women's watches and also for men's. No longer is a basic leather band and metal watch face acceptable. Instead, the watch needs to function and appear like a piece of jewelry.

As a result, one popular watch style for women has been bracelet style watches. Made out of metal, these bracelet style watches are essentially a fashion item with a watch face attached. The most common is a cuff watch which, with a thicker metal band, slides directly over the wrist. For a bit more space, bangle and charm bracelet watches are also popular. Both, similarly, are designed like their standard bracelet counterparts, with a watch face included within the metal design.

Metal isn't the only material used for women's fashion watches. While a solid cuff or bangle is common, they're often embellished, particularly by beads. Such watch bands can be covered in small seed beads or, for a large or chunky style, designed with glass beads. Additionally, other materials are used to make a solid watch band. Go to any costume jewelry store and fashion watches are made from solid wood, enamel, or plastic bands.

What about men's watches? Although many styles for men include the basic leather or metal band and a watch face, a small market for men's fashion watches has also emerged. The most prominent design has been ice watches which, although more appropriate for urban fashion, take the basic design of a leather or metal band watch and embellish it with rhinestones on the watch face, dial, and band. The rhinestones are made to resemble diamonds and, in some cases, clash - on purpose - with the gold color of the band.