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Do you remember the women’s watches of yesterday, scaled-down versions of men’s watches, or diminutive, ladylike dress watches forever awaiting a big night out? They’re history! Today’s women’s watches have become hot fashion accessories meant to get noticed, with large, look-at-me dials, glitter galore and more color than a king-size box of crayons.

When it comes to women’s watches, petite and feminine are no longer almost synonymous. Case sizes are getting larger, and what used to be a relatively standard diameter of about 24 millimeters, is now downright petite. Some women’s styles are truly mammoth,Breitling Replica, 40 millimeters in diameter or more. Why this trend toward super-sizing? One reason is men’s watches. As they’ve grown to massive dimensions, women’s watches have bulked-up also. Another reason is the recent popularity of women’s chronograph watches, which necessitated dials large enough to accommodate chronograph subdials. And the biggest reason for the new interest in big women’s watches: the large faces have room for jazzy numerals,Longines Watches Replica, decorative dials, fancy hands and all manner of snazzy indicators – all the things that make a watch worth wearing.

While it’s true that pink is considered the color for girls and women, so, it seems, are blue, purple, green, red and yellow. All are showing up these days on women’s watches. In addition to pastels and vibrant primary colors, there’s also a more serious palette of grays (pearl, slate, charcoal) and browns (coffee, copper and bronze) for occasions that call for some gravitas. And, yes, orange is still hot. If you can’t find a woman’s watch these days to go with every outfit in your closet, you’re just not trying. The dominant look is watchstraps and dials that match, the latter often mother-of-pearl, dyed any color you can imagine. Also popular are colored gemstones,versace wiki, especially sapphires, in all their various hues – yellow, pink,orange, and, of course, blue.

We’ll bet you’ve never seen so many unusual shapes as are currently being offered by today’s watch makers. One of the biggest trends in women’s watches is non-round styles. It’s both a new development and an old one: when wristwatches came on the scene in the early 1900s, women’s models took on a range of wild shapes before settling into the more staid rounds and rectangles of later decades. Now, once again, it’s anything goes, with flower shapes (fromTissotandCitizen, among others), crosses (Roger Dubuis,Locman), egg shaped (Breguet), long rectangles curved to fit the wrist (cK), semicircles (Jean d’Eve) and ovals (from companies too numerous to mention).Van Cleef & Arpelseven has a watch shaped like the Alhambra in Spain. So-called east-west watches, which are wider than they are high, are gaining fashion momentum. They’re available now in oval, rectangle and tonneau shapes, with more variations on the way.

Mechanical Women’s Watches

Today, many makers of mechanical watches have launched initiatives to win women over. They’re offering a plethora of new women watch models: not plain, garden-variety mechanical watches like your grandmother used to wear, but extremely-fancy ones, incorporating a full spectrum of special features and functions: chronographs,Hublot Watches Replica, full calendars, power reserve indicators and even tourbillons. In terms of styling, they’re pulling out all the stops, with eye-catching displays for all these exotic add-ons – a winning combination of function and fashion.

These days women’s watches are so gem-laden that the term jewelry watch is almost redundant. But truly glamorous, gem-laden women’s watch models designed for after-dark festivities are more plentiful than ever. Perhaps as a consequence of this – and the need to set themselves apart from the crowd – they’re also more unusual in design, moving far beyond over-the-top bling. Just a few examples:Jaeger-LeCoultrehas new jewelry versions of its Reverso watches that have diamonds set in a lopsided-checkerboard pattern and, in another model, a pattern resembling dice.Patek Philippehas a new version of its Twenty~4, decorated with a bubble pattern composed of diamonds.Cartierhas several new enamel and diamond models inspired by jungle animals, including a tiger-striped pendant watch. AndPiagethas a diamond watch customized with the owners fingerprint.

Watch straps are no longer mere appendages. As watches have become accessories, watch bands have stepped into the spotlight as well. No wonder: a watch strap can make a plain watch fancy or tone down a dressy one for office wear. Or, like magic, turn a basic watch into the perfect companion for a colorful beach wrap.

Many watches are designed so the owner can change the strap herself. Some watchstraps can be converted from one style to another. The Baby Star byZenith Watches,Breguet Replica, for instance, has a thin leather strap that can be worn alone or, for a sportier look, on top of a wide cuff.