Are You Wearing Timex Watches to Keep Time with Fashion or Function?

If you haven't lived under a rock for the past few decades, then you surely know that Rolex stands for luxurious precision timekeeping, and you know that Timex Watches are the premier name in inexpensive, reliable timekeeping. The vast area between the two, however, offers the widest selection of watches-in terms of function, fashion and price. We're all creatures of habit, and if one watch has served us well for years, it's natural that we gravitate toward the same watch brand and design each time we purchase a new watch. If you'd like to adorn your wrist with a different type of watch, perhaps a Swiss-quartz or high-fashion watch, we offer you a cheat sheet below, to help you get up to speed quickly with the many watch offerings available today.

If you've always thought of a watch as a functional necessity, you might add a few fashionable watches to your collection of watches and bracelets. If you've always worn Nike watches, consider adding an elegant watch to your collection, perhaps one with a golden mesh band. Whatever your requirements for timekeeping and your sense of fashion, you'll find a watch to suit your needs.

Perception is everything, and a genuine Rolex Watch brands you a person of discerning taste. Forget all the hype about Rolex watches: people buy them for one reason. They are the most recognized status symbols in wrist watches-everyone has heard of a Rolex, and a diamond and gold Rolex watch remains out of most everyone's price range.

Rolex watches are the most popular watches, and ownership is not a requirement for popularity. It might surprise you to learn that Rolex watches are not THE most accurate watch. It is unlikely that they take a year to make, and their resale value is of little importance to their buyers. Ah, Madison Avenue strikes again. Still, a Rolex watch is a fine watch and an investment in time. Give me status; give me a Rolex watch.

Affordable Treats

If you're a mere mortal with a penchant for arriving at your destination in style at the prescribed time, your idea of a good watch probably resides in the $100-500 range, and maybe even toward the lower end of that scale. You know the names Nike, Timex, Seiko, Swiss Army, Pulsar, and Citizen-just to name a few. The watches available in this price range offer a wide selection of watch choices ranging from simple and elegant watches with leather bands, to watches with mesh and link bands. You'll find watches with analog and digital displays, timers, calendar displays, water-resistance watches, etc. in this price range. In fact, this price range offers the widest variety of watches in terms of elegance, precision time keeping, and fashion choices. You can select from a number of watches using Swiss-quartz movements in this price range.

You'll find everything from designer-of-the-moment watches to household names such as Nike, Timex, Swatch and Fossil in the below-$100 range. The Nike collections feature casual and dress watches in a dizzying array of choices, and provide dependable service as well. As well as Nike and Timex, Fossil watches offer a lot of bang for the buck-fashion, dependability, variety. And starting at $40, Swatch offers the most in up-to-the-minute throwaway watch fashion.

And, last but certainly not least-depending on your current age-this category satisfies the Abercrombie-and-Fitch, Top 40 crowd with an assortment of watches from the king of the teen designers, Tommy Hilfiger himself.

Whatever your pleasure in marking time, find it, get it, own it, wear it. Mere mortals like us can browse and purchase the watches of our choice right here-online.

About the Author:

M J Plaster is a successful author who provides information on shopping online for brand name watches and watches in general.