Watches Guide Page 2

Welcome to page 2 of the watches section of the Apparel Search Jewelry Guide.  In this section you will find a great deal of information regarding watches. 

Quartz watches

Rhinestone watches

Rolex watches

Self-Winding watches

Shock Resistant watches

Silver watches

Slide Rule watches

Sports watches

Stainless Steel watches

Sterling Silver watches

Swiss watches

Tachometer watches (Instrument for measuring speed or units)

Tag Heuer watches

Telemeter watches (A watch function that finds the distance of an object from the wearer by measuring how long it takes sound to travel the distance)

Timepieces

Timex watches

Titanium watches

Tungsten watches

Two Tone Gold watches

Vintage Watches

Watch Bands

Watch Batteries

Water Resistant watches

White Gold watches

Women's watches

Wrist watches

Yellow Gold watches

It is most definitely time to learn about the best watches in our consumer section.

Watch Directories:

Watch Store Directory

Watch Wholesaler Directory

Fashion Accessory Retailers

Return to Watch Guide Page 1

Fashion wristwatches are often treated as jewelry or as collectible works of art rather than as timepieces. This has created several different markets for wristwatches, ranging from very inexpensive but accurate watches intended for no other purpose than telling the correct time, to extremely expensive watches that serve mainly as personal adornment or as examples of high achievement in miniaturization and precision mechanical engineering. View full definition of watches.

You might have interest in view watch blog posts on the Fashion Blog.

Materials and Making on Page 2

The second half of the alphabet is where the directory turns from types to materials and construction. Silver, sterling silver, stainless steel, titanium and tungsten entries cover the case and bracelet metals, from the traditional precious metal to the modern hard and light alloys. Two tone gold, white gold and yellow gold entries cover gold in its combined and single colors. Reading across them gives the material map of the whole section: what a watch is made of decides its weight, its durability, its care and much of its price.

The functional entries complete the picture. Quartz names the electronic movement that remade the industry, self-winding the mechanical system that winds from the wrist, and shock resistant and water resistant the two great protections, against impact and against water, that modern watches are rated by. Slide rule watches carry a calculating bezel from aviation, and rhinestone watches mark the decorative, jewelry end of the range.

Using This Directory

Start from the question being asked. A type question, which sports watch, which women's watch, goes to the topic guides linked here, each with its own history, styles and buying points. A material question goes to the metal entries. A maintenance question goes to bands and batteries. And a general question goes back to page 1 of this directory or to the timepieces page, which explains how the wristwatch fits inside the wider family of clocks and instruments that measure time. The watch store and wholesaler directories linked from this page serve the reader whose next step is buying or sourcing rather than reading.