The Casio Wave Ceptor has an attractive series of watches that are both elegant as well as perfect timekeepers. The Casio Wave Ceptor, which has both an analog as well as a digital time display is well known for its atomic world time keeping attribute that displays precision of time received via radio signals obtained from transmitters set out across the globe. The radio-controlled watches have to be placed at a particular position to receive signals in order to synchronize and provide the accurate time. Other features include a calendar, stopwatch, alarms, daylight savings time and several other useful devices that serve various purposes. The collection also consists of several eye-catching chronographs that give a sophisticated yet sporty look. Available in both stainless steel and plastic models, the Casio Wave Ceptor is certainly a convenient watch and with a price range starting at a mere $27 to a little over $250 and considering their functionality, the watches are certainly a worthy buy.
3.28.2011
Chopard Diamond
The Swiss watchmaker Chopard has one of the finest watch designs for women and the Chopard Diamond leaves no stone unturned. An exclusive range of watches with thoughtfully set out diamonds in a variety of designs, the collection is made fit to represent a piece of jewelry and a work of art for that matter. Diamonds either adorn the bezel or are set in an innovative manner wherein they float freely between two sapphire crystal dial windows, but no matter where they are placed, the Chopard Diamond watches make a lasting impression. Available in stainless steel, 18k yellow gold, white gold and rose gold, these dainty watches are something that all women would vie for. The price range of the Chopard Diamond collection begins over $3,000 and can go up as high as $36,000 and depending on how much you can afford to spend on this masterpiece, you can get to own one of the most beautiful watches available in the market.
Chopard Happy
The Chopard Happy collection consists of some of the most gorgeous and uniquely designed watches in various shapes and sizes. The series, which is especially made for the slender female wrist has a variety of the choicest analogs and chronographs in stainless steel, two-toned stainless steel, 18k yellow, white and rose gold, leather straps and those set with glittering diamonds, giving women a hard time to decide which one of these to buy for herself. Roman and Arabic numerals display the time on a dial that is mainly in mother of pearl, white, black and gray colors. The elegance of the watches matches the grace of a women and although the watches are more on the higher side starting at $500 and going up to over $35,000, which is an unaffordable price for most people, the Chopard Happy collection is worth taking a look at if you want something exclusive.
Chopard Miglia
The Chopard watch company, which is one of the leading producers of luxury watches also happened to be a sponsor of the Mille Miglia auto race, an open-road endurance race that was held between 1927-1957, and hence the significance of the Chopard Miglia collection. The watches that are designed exclusively for men have a great selection of chronographs that surpass the other in look. Features include a self-winding automatic movement that enables battery power by the movement of the wrist, dual time zone, sub dials, date display, marked or plain bezel, tachymeter and a water resistance power of 50 meters. The watches are available in stainless steel, titanium and rose gold, some of which come with leather straps and rubber straps. Dial colors include white, black, gray and blue with indexes or Arabic numbers marking the hours. The superb Chopard Miglia makes a great watch collection for men looking for style and panache and with a price range falling between $2,500 and $8,000, the watches in this series are highly recommended.
Chopard Mille
The Chopard Mille Miglia gets its name from the Mille Miglia auto endurance race that was held thirteen times in Italy during 1927-57. Chopard, the official sponsors, named an entire watch collection after it and this is evident from the rubber straps on the watches that are designed like car tires. The watches, mainly chronometers, consist of a host of features that according to the models include an automatic self-wind movement, luminous Arabic numerals and hands marking the hours, sub dials, tachymeter, various dial colors, dual time zone and a water resistance of 165 meters. The dial is fit into a titanium or stainless steel case and attached to a stainless steel bracelet, rubber or leather strap. The Chopard Mille, a timepiece of commendable precision and a classic sporty look reflects great workmanship and appeal. The watches in this fascinating collection are available in a range starting at $2,000 and going up to over $5,000 for a single timepiece.
Citizen Aqualand
The Citizen Aqualand set of watches offer some amazing features that make them suitable for wear both inland as well as underwater and therefore the significance of the name. The watches use the latest and the most complex technology that include qualities such as an auto start dive mode, electro-luminescent backlight, 60-days power reserve, dual time zones with a time display of 42 cities of the world, water resistance of up to 200 meters, perpetual calendar and many other useful features. Also the watches are available in a range of vibrant colors such as red, orange, tan etc that make them stand apart from other collections. Most of the watches are powered by light, which means that you are free from the hassle of changing batteries when the old ones get exhausted. You can be assured that your watch is always charged and running whether it is indoors or outdoors. $300 to $470 is the range at which you can buy these attractive analog chronographs.
Citizen Calibre
The Citizen Calibre has a range of watches in metal and in leather straps. The watches come with all sorts of mini dials shaped in circles, arches, ovals and wing shaped, except for one style, the Citizen Calibre 6000 World Timer. This Citizen Calibre 6000 has a white dial with the outlines of the atlas, and is a time keeper of 23 cities, the names of which are inscribed in black on the bezel. The inner circle contains the 24 hours of the day marked in Arabic numerals. The Citizen Calibre 6000 comes in a silver case with a black leather strap and in a gold case with a brown leather strap. The Citizen Calibre metal bracelets have a fine basket -weave pattern link chain which come in silver, gold and double tone. The Citizen Calibre 5700 has a bright green dial and its stainless steel bracelet has a neat fusing of the links. The Citizen Calibre 9000 is in the gold tone and has a minute repeating facility, which enables it to keep a record of past time and displaying it when needed with just the push of a button. The attractive dial itself has a mixture of grey colour and hues of gold. The Citizen Calibre diamond watches have these precious stones studded on the bezel. The Citizen Calibre 5000 has a magnificent mother of pearl dial, three mini dials and diamonds on the bezel. This Citizen Calibre comes in a gold tone and a silver tone. All the Citizen Calibre watches are eco-friendly and therefore do not use any batteries. This collection has a worthwhile choice of watches for its customers.
3.23.2011
Citizen Corso
The Citizen Corso is yet another smart collection of watches for both men and women. The Citizen Corso watch dials come in a variety of colours -black, white, champagne, mother of pearl, light blue, dark blue and grey. The bracelets which are all metal come in stainless steel, polished finish, gold and double tone with a push button deployment fastener. The Citizen Corso #BM8120-56E for men and #BMEW3050-52E for women have titanium bracelets. The dial is fitted in the bracelet making it one whole single piece. A central link overlaps the bezel and comes down in the manner of a cobbled stone pathway. The polished titanium receptacle is hypo-allergenic with a weight one-third that of stainless steel. A similar Citizen Corso is available with twelve diamonds on the bezel. The other bracelet design of the Citizen Corso is a five link chain where, three slim links are encased in the outer large links. Here also, two of the smaller links overlap the bezel. The Citizen Corso #BM8080-59A is a steel watch with a silver dial and steel indexes and dots, which run consecutively following one another, to mark the hours. There is a day and date window at the three o’clock position which displays the day in a red colour. All watches in the Citizen Corso are 100 feet water resistant and are ecologically powered. The Citizen Corso watches are attractive to look at and give you a considerable choice.
Citizen Eco Drive
Citizen Eco Drive as its name suggests uses an environment friendly technology that is a unique feature in most of the watches produced by the company. This array of watches is powered by light both solar as well as electric power that we use indoors making the watches eco-friendly and also saving us the trouble of changing batteries when the old ones fade out. As the Citizen Eco Drive consists of a magnum collection of watches its features range from the plain and simple to the most advanced technology available in both analogs and chronographs. You can find an assortment of dial colors laid in stainless steel, two-tone stainless steel, titanium and watches with leather and rubber straps in a selection of colors. Most of the Citizen collections come under the Eco Drive list and offer a wide variety of valuable attributes that make the watches highly desirable. You can purchase the watches from a selection that ranges from $80 to $600.
Citizen Elektra
The Citizen Elektra has a metal collection of watches in stainless steel, silver, polished finish, gold and double tone. The dials which are black, white, silver and mother of pearl come in shapes of squares and circles. The bracelets of the Citizen Elektra are in two styles, one in a basket weave pattern and the other has rounded links connected neatly by two parallel rows of thin clasps. The dials of the Citizen Elektra have a very minimal look with Roman numbers and indexes to mark the hours. The Citizen Elektra #BW0160-52E has a square dial with a double shade dial, a small black square within the grey background of the larger dial. The hours are marked by visible indexes at the third, sixth, ninth and the twelfth hour and slight silhouettes to mark the other hours. The watch comes in a polished finish as well as in the gold tone where diamonds outline the dial. As for the Citizen Elektra diamond watches the precious stones are decorated on the bezel. The watches for women are narrower in width as compared to the men’s watches. All the Citizen Elektra watches are eco-drive, meaning they charge themselves and do not need any batteries whatsoever. The watches have a 180 day power back up facility and a quick recharge with three hours of exposure to light. They are 10 to 30 feet water resistant, depending on the model and have a mineral scratch proof dial window and a date window at the three o’clock position. The Citizen Elektra is worth taking a look at, for you may find something to suit your taste buds.
Citizen Infusion
The Citizen Infusion has four models to its credit. The watches are an infusion of ceramic and metal. The Citizen Infusion come in black, dark green and grey dials with pale thin waves streaked across them. Luminous arrowhead markers and hands and a red second’s hand highlight the dials. The Citizen Infusion bracelets are a three link chain with rectangular nodular links which are compactly attached to the small square outer links with the help of very thin polished clasps. The Citizen Infusion #BN0034-53W has a dark green dial, a ceramic marked bezel and a double tone stainless steel bracelet. Another model of this Citizen Infusion comes with a black and silver bracelet. The Citizen Infusion #BN0040-00A has a grey dial and a black ribbed resin strap. The Citizen Infusion #BN0032-59E is an all gold tone watch. Its elegant bracelet is complimented by a black dial with a grass green bezel with numbers marking every five minutes up to the hour. All the Citizen Infusion watches have a water resistance of three hundred meters, a mineral crystal scratch proof window, a rotating ceramic bezel and a fold over safety clasp. Although the Citizen Infusion has a very limited choice, but whatever it offers has a classic dressy look.
Citizen Lucca
The Citizen Lucca is again a small collection with a dial variety of three designs. The Citizen Lucca dials are available in pink and white (reflecting shades of pink and blue) mother of pearl. There is one Citizen Lucca, which is in the gold tone, that has a champagne coloured dial with small square shaped boxes (which are made up of four even tinier squares) to mark the sixth, ninth and the twelfth hour and minuscule dots to mark the other hours except for three o’clock, where the date window is placed. The bezel of this Citizen Lucca watch also has the hours marked, by way of line incisions with double lines to mark the third, sixth, ninth and the twelfth hour and single lines to mark the rest. The mothers of pearl dials of the Citizen Lucca have simple Roman or Arabic numbers to mark the hours. This particular watch design comes in stainless steel, double tone, polished and brushed look and an all gold colour. The bracelets of the Citizen Lucca are in the shape of rectangular tablets joined together by a double row of slim clasps that overlap two of these tablets, continuing thereon in this fashion, to make a complete link all round. The third design in the Citizen Lucca collection is a black dial with three small sub dials placed in the centre circling the hands. The mini dials are also in black in the gold version and in white in the silver model. Both watches come with diamonds on the bezel. The Citizen Lucca has a jewellery glamour to its appearance.
Citizen Professional Diver
The Citizen Professional Diver is exclusively designed for normal pool divers and deep sea explorers with a water resistance ranging from 200 meters to a 1000 meters, according to the models. The dials of all the Citizen Professional Diver watches are black in colour, except for one the #BN001604L which has a blue dial. The watch has luminous white markers and hands, one of which is in the orange colour. The rotating black cutwork bezel has every ten minutes marked on it. The titanium dial case is fixed to a black rubber strap. The only metal watch in this Citizen Professional Diver collection has a titanium body. The other watches come with either rubber or polyurethane straps, both in the black colour. The Citizen Professional Diver #BJ2004-08E has a very attractive, smart look. The watch has a black dial with three luminous sub dials, luminous dot markers and hands and a red second’s hand. The double tone gold and silver cutwork bezel has the minutes marked in black. A date window lies neatly nestled at the three o’clock position. The same model is also available in silver. The Citizen Professional Diver Aqualand Eco-Drive #JV0010-08E has special features such as a digital day/date window, auto start dive mode, and log memory of up to 20 dives, electro luminescent backlight, 3 alarms, world time of 42cities plus UTC and 29 time zones. All the Citizen Professional Diver watches have luminous hands and markers to help enable visibility under water. The Citizen Professional Diver is a very professional watch altogether.
Citizen Promaster
The Citizen Promaster collection boasts of an innovative technology that offers some brilliant features and attractive designs that have been especially created for sports enthusiasts. The watches in this series also use the ecology friendly power mechanism that is patented by Citizen for its Eco-Drive watches. Available in stainless steel, titanium and models with rubber or leather straps, the watches also offer a selection of dial colors. Some of the watches are designed in a fashion that make them suitable for diving, to be worn on land as well as for aviation purposes. The watches consisting of either a quartz movement or fueled by light, whether it is solar power or light indoors, offer some highly functional and unique features that make the Citizen Promaster a professional watch. With a huge range of extraordinary analogs and chronographs starting at $150 and going up to $600 for a timepiece, the Promaster is a collection to be envied.
Citizen Riega
The Citizen Riega has an elegant set of watches in its collection. The Citizen Riega is available in stainless steel, gold and double tone. The bracelets of the Citizen Riega are in the same intricate weave that is available in some of the other Citizen collections. One very attractive model is the #EP5630-55Y, which has a glossy shaded blue mother of pearl dial with a dark grey inner bezel and a silver outer bezel with 32 diamonds set as markers on the grey bezel and the rest studded on the outer silver one. The Citizen Riega #EP5624-58D has 12 dazzling diamonds placed as markers on the dial and a cutwork bezel on a white mother of pearl dial which reflects the shades of pink and blue colours. Another intriguing model is the Citizen Riega #BL7174-59L in a double tone with a Prussian blue dial, beautifully decorated with three sub dials, a date window at the four o’clock position and a stylish cutwork bezel to top it up. The dial window of this chronometer for men stands out of the case slightly above the bezel. All the Citizen Riega watches are ecologically friendly and have a power reserve ranging up to 180 days. The Citizen Riege watches have a water resistance from a 100 feet to 330 feet of water depth, a scratch proof sapphire crystal window and an invisible push button deployment clasp. The Citizen Riega has an appeal of its own and can please many a customer.