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3 GMT Watches For The Practical-Minded Jetsetter

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All watches provide the time of day, giving at least the hour and minute, and usually the second. Most also provide the current date, and often the day of the week as well. However, many watches also provide a great deal of information beyond the basics of time and date. Some watches include alarms. Other elaborate and more expensive watches, both pocket and wrist models, also incorporate striking mechanisms or repeater functions, so that the wearer could learn the time by the sound emanating from the watch. This announcement or striking feature is an essential characteristic of true clocks and distinguishes such watches from ordinary timepieces. This feature is available on most digital watches. A  complicated watch  has one or more functions beyond the basic function of displaying the time and the date; such a functionality is called a complication. Two popular complications are the  chronograph  complication, which is the ability of the watch movement to function as a sto
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Scuba diving

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Watches may be crafted to become water resistant. These watches are sometimes called diving watches when they are suitable for scuba diving or saturation diving. The International Organization for Standardization issued a standard for water resistant watches which also prohibits the term "waterproof" to be used with watches, which many countries have adopted. Water resistance is achieved by the gaskets which forms a watertight seal, used in conjunction with a sealant applied on the case to help keep water out. The material of the case must also be tested in order to pass as water resistant. None of the tests defined by ISO 2281 for the Water Resistant mark are suitable to qualify a watch for scuba diving. Such watches are designed for everyday life and must be water resistant during exercises such as swimming. They can be worn in different temperature and pressure conditions but are under no circumstances designed for scuba diving. Wristwatches and an
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White-On-White Women Watches For A White Party

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As the summer season of holidays and relaxation heads into its final month, there is still time to attend or even host a white party. Getting the proper attire is relatively easy but finding the proper watch requires a little more work. In addition, a white watch should have the versatility to be worn year round for casual and formal occasions. Below are four examples of such watches that meet these needs. The Swiss watch brand introduced a versatile 38mm white ceramic version of its Laureato collection with an octagonal steel bezel topped with 56 round brilliant-cut diamonds. The white dial features a “Clou de Paris” pattern—a guilloché pattern of hollowed lines that form tiny pyramids. It is powered by the in-house GP03300-0139/0030 automatic movement and finished with a white rubber strap. Nomos Glashütte released a pair of “siren” white watches that are part of the German company’s Aqua series. Both watches are slender and elegant and are water-resistant
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Fossil announces new update to Android Wear watches with HR tracking, GPS

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Fossil’s Q watch line is an interesting foray by a traditional fashion watchmaker into the wearable world. Their latest additions to the line, the Fossil Q Venture HR and Fossil Q Explorist HR, add a great deal of Android Wear functionality to a watch that is reminiscent of Fossil’s earlier, simpler watches. In other words, these are some nice, low-cost smartwatches for the fitness fan. The original Q watches included a clever hybrid model with analog face and step counter. As the company expanded into wearables, however, they went the Android Wear route and created a number of lower-powered touchscreen watches. Now, thanks to a new chipset, Fossil is able to add a great deal more functionality in a nice package. The Venture and the Explorist adds untethered GPS, NFC, heart rate and 24-hour battery life. It also includes an altimeter and gyroscope sensor. The new watches start at $255 and run the Qualcomm  Snapdragon Wear 2100 chip, an optimized chipset for fitness wat
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Automatic watches

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A  self-winding  or  automatic  watch is one that rewinds the mainspring of a mechanical movement by the natural motions of the wearer's body. The first self-winding mechanism was invented for pocket watches in 1770 by Abraham-Louis Perrelet,but the first "self-winding", or "automatic", wristwatch was the invention of a British watch repairer named John Harwood in 1923. This type of watch winds itself without requiring any special action by the wearer. It uses an eccentric weight, called a winding rotor, which rotates with the movement of the wearer's wrist. The back-and-forth motion of the winding rotor couples to a ratchet to wind the mainspring automatically. Self-winding watches usually can also be wound manually to keep them running when not worn or if the wearer's wrist motions are inadequate to keep the watch wound. In April 2014 the Swatch Group launched the  sistem51  wristwatch. It has a purely mechanical movement consisting of only 5
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