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Titanium Watches: Lighter Than Steel and Tough as Nails
by on Feb.10, 2010, under Sport and Dive Watches
Titanium watches are hardy like you wouldn’t believe, and they will literally take a licking and keep on ticking. But they do have some drawback worth mentioning, and they are usually very specific to the watch you are looking at. Generally speaking, they are elegant, indestructible, lightweight, and long lasting. They require next to no maintenance and this is one of the features that most endear them to their owners. Titanium watches can be expensive though, and if you want a great deal you are going to have to do a fair amount of hunting to get it. You may have better luck online, where your every whim can be satisfied within seconds as far as shopping and questions go. Poke around the different brands offered and see what appeals to you.
Titanium Watches for Women
As we stare down the barrel of another Valentine’s Day, it occurs to me that many men will be looking for a nice gift for their wives. A beautiful watch is a great way to signify the time you have spent together and the future to come. Consider titanium watches for women who do a lot of working with their hands, as they are so nice and light, as well as very durable, but be aware that a watch with ion coating will scratch and look trashy over time if she is using it a whole heck of a lot. Best to make sure she is not contending with those issues when buying her a watch. Look for a lady’s Seiko, they make a wonderful watch, in many different materials, and they are sure to offer something that will please the woman in your life. Make sure that it is very feminine, no matter what the watch will be used for, and try to remember no matter what she will want something delicate looking and pretty, functional is not the way to go for a woman’s watch. It must look like a piece of jewelry, regardless of what she will use it for and that is why titanium is a good way to go for women, you can get a lovely delicate looking watch that can go through the earth’s core if it has to. Women are funny creatures, being one I can state that for sure, and personally, even though I am a trained blacksmith and horseshoer, I don’t want anything mannish as a gift so spend some time looking for something special for a woman.
Titanium Watches for Men
This can be a tricky pick, if you want a fancy dress watch as a man, go ahead, black titanium watches will work fine for you so long as you are not using it for everyday use. The coating that is on a black titanium watch is going to scratch all up and look really trashy in the end, so if it is a watch your man is going to wear every day follow the no coatings rule, and pass on the black. Titanium watches are great for diving as well as just plain working, and some of these bad boys are really amazing in their capabilities, diving deeper that anything you ever thought possible so if your man is big into diving consider this for father’s day or Christmas time. Men’s watch styles vary greatly with a man’s preference, and unlike ladies watches there are really no rules to what a man should like to wear. As a rule, men’s watches are larger and a little heftier looking in general than a woman’s watch would be, and titanium watches don’t break with this tradition. They have to be able to hold up to the kinds of things most men like doing, and as I stated earlier, unless it is going to sit on a velvet pillow most of the time pass on the ion coating. A watch for a man is a great gift, and if he receives an heirloom quality watch he is likely to pass it on in his estate to his children when he is gone, so try to remember that if you are looking for that special something to let him know you care about him forever.
Guest Post: Natasha D
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The Hublot Big Bang: A Modern Classic Swiss Watch
by on Jan.15, 2010, under Dress Watches
The story of Jean-Claude Biver and how he has shaken up one sleepy Swiss watch company after another is a great one, but today I’m only going to focus a small part of it, and that will be how he revolutionized Hublot, a tiny company, with his Big Bang watch. Everyone who has met Mr Biver knows that he is a character who is far larger than life. So after leaving the Swatch Group where he had done various jobs including overhauling the Omega brand, Mr Biver seemed to have gone to ground. When he emerged it was as a part-owner and manager of Hublot.
Now Hublot was a relatively new Swiss watch producer. It was only formed in 1980. But it was one that had been incredibly creative and had innovated from the very beginning when Carlo Crocco , its founder, introduced rubber straps on expensive gold watches. The idea seemed mad to most people in the industry but it soon picked up a dedicated following. For one thing, people were attracted by the fact that the rubber didn’t cause allergic reactions to some people who struggle with traditional watch straps and materials. It is also not quite clear why, but the Spanish royal family soon took a liking to the early Hublot watches. That started a craze in Spain where the watch has been popular ever since.
In 2004 when Mr Biver took charge of Hublot he thought that its line up had become a bit stale and he wanted to make a huge impression while still keeping with Hublot’s tradition of using innovation. His answer was the Big Bang, which took unusual materials such as gold and ceramic and fused them together with a bang. All sorts of strange materials are used. While titanium watches have become quite popular in recent years,Hublot takes things 10 steps further by combining materials such as Kevlar, red gold, magnesium, titanium and carbon fibre. Mr Biver describes it as a fusion of traditional Swiss Watch making with the Twenty-first century.
These are big and bold watches that are designed to stand out on the arm, not to blend in. Hublot has also crafted a large number of special editions such as the million dollar watch which is covered in diamonds, or a bright red valentines day Big Bang (which would match nicely, I suppose with a pair of red earrings).
Hublot has continued to expand and to innovate on the Big Bang. It recently opened in big new factory and has started making and designing its own mechanical movements, a move which sets it apart from quite a large number of other Swiss Watch companies that simply build the case and buy a movement to go in it.
Some of those who watch the industry closely worry about whether Hublot is too focused on a single watch, even though it comes in many variations, but for now it is doing well. Mr Biver is a consummate marketing expert and keeps finding new ways to innovate and promote his watches. Among his recent moves were to sponsor Manchester United football club and to get involved in the Americas Cup yacht race. The man whom the Economist magazine called a “salesman of the irrational” seems likely to keep coming up with ideas and designs that should keep Hublot a trend-setting Swiss watch producer for years to come.
A bright red watch to match the season
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