Watch buying guide

It’s been long time the time was started to measure. Romans started with the sundials. And in last three centuries it has evolved. First wearable clocks and pocket watches and wrist watches. Each century gave us something. And without any doubt today I can say that buying a watch is one of the most difficult accessories to buy. Used for fashion, style boast and what not. Watch comes is hundred of brands and thousands of models. Both for men and for women. Gold plated to platinum plated watches and still without a buying guide it difficult to buy. In this buying guide we’ll talk about types of watches, few features and things we have to consider while buying a watch.

Types of watches:
Battery powered watches: very popular and common now days, these types of watches are accurate and do not require winding from time to time. Powered by battery one should remember to change its battery once in every few years.
Mechanical watches: since the main spring needs to be wound to move the gears, these watch needs regular winding. The traditional watches of all these are a bit inaccurate because they lose a few minutes every month and might go to sleep if you forget to wind it up. Even with all these weakness it’s always a dear. If you do not believe me than you can go take a look at the watch your dad gave you for the first time. There are two types of mechanical watches:

Automatic Mechanical Watch: perfect for the ones who wear a watch regularly, do not need winding because of your body movement. Brands like Seiko even place a transparent underneath so you can see the gears underneath.

• Manual Mechanical Watch: they need winding every day. They are perfect if you are going to wear it only in some occasion. A classic type watch in a classy occasion.
• Binary Watches/ Digital Watches: they are the latest on the watch timeline and are gaining popularity very rapidly. They use LED lights to display the time in binary form. Very accurate these watches now a day’s comes with loads of other function and very advanced ones.

General features
Scratchproof:

• Acrylic gives little resistance.
• Mineral crystal gives average protection.
• Sapphire crystal is the ultimate protection for your watch

Water Resistance: most of the watches found in the market place today are water proof.

Price: price may range from 10$ to thousands of dollars depending what’s the watch is made of and its brand
Quality: The reliability and durability are the factor that tells us how well does a watch perform. The real difference between battery-powered quartz watches and mechanical watches are accuracy.
Fashion/ style: a watch can be your style statement and hell yeah you have an extraordinary watch you can boast.
Function: when you buy a watch than it should be useful to you. If you go for swimming than it should go underwater with you and if you are jogging that it should be able to tell you the lap time.