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Fashion Watches - An Overview of Current Trends

By Dan Sopriano
Jun 25, 2009
Fashion watches comprise a design category that includes a vast assortment of timepieces that are decorative. The decoration may be on the watch face itself, the bezel, or the band. There may be jewels encrusted on the face or band, and some fashion watches rise to astronomical prices when bejewelled likes that, up to a 25 million pound price tag. For the most part, however, fashion watches are very affordable, beautiful, and fun to wear.

Some fashion watches are considered disposable, or cheap, but even those are fun watches to wear. Others carry well known fashion designer names like Peugeot, Bellagio, Dolce & Gabbana, and others. And, there are celebrity fashion watches such as those put out with the name of Paris Hilton, and Tommy Hilfiger. There are fun watches from Disney, and Swatch Swiss Watches. All are colourful, unique, and very unlike the traditional watches one is used to seeing and wearing.

Most fashion watches approach the category of being jewellery, decorative accessories you can mix with and match to your apparel. If you want stripes, floral, large, small, or brightly coloured watches, they are available. The fashion watches also come in both analogue and digital styles. Some are huge, others are worn loosely like bangles, and still others are pinned on like a brooch or fashion ornament. There are fashion wristwatches, and fashion wall clocks, desktop or table clocks, and pendent clocks. Some just tell the time, while others are little data banks, and chronographs.

The bands are an entire world of fashion unto themselves. Their bands can be created from different metals, including steel, silver, gold, platinum, and tungsten. Or, they may be made from fabrics, leather, plastic or rubber. Some are bracelet styles with groups of chains or jewellery strands making up the band. Dials may be decorated with real diamonds or artificial gems. Some fashion watches are ultra slim, black, or tastefully set with a few classic diamonds on the face. Many are priced well under one hundred pounds, and some are priced in the thousands or tens of thousands of pounds.

The fashion watches are well made, and some are hard to distinguish from imitation to real. There are replica fashion watches that sell for around ten pounds, which imitate well known designer watches. Celebrities set many fashion trends, and that applies to fashion watches as well. Fashion, flair, and fun all go together with fashion watches and clocks. There truly is something for everyone, and a fashion watch to match any type of apparel a person may wear. If there is one thing to be said for fashion watches, it would be that the world of fashion is wide open when it comes to decorative timepieces.
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