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Top Watch Types 1. Casual These are the standard watches that most people buy for everyday use and generally cost between $75-300. Most popular Brands - Movado, Seiko, Citizen
2. Luxury Luxury watches are expensive and generally cost over $700. Luxury watches are almost all made in Switzerland. It has been common in Europe for people to spend several thousand dollars for a watch but in the US the the market for luxuy watches has expanded over the last 10 years. Luxury watches are usually made with expensive materials like platinum and gold and often have real diamonds set into them as well.
Most popular brands - Rolex and Tag Heuer. Check out the Top Luxury Watches for this month.
3. Dive Dive watches are water-resistant to at least 100m and are designed to give divers an accurate reading of the elapsed time for their dive.
Most popular Brands - Rolex, Omega, Citizen, Suunto. Check out the Top Dive Watches for this month.
4. Pilot Pilot Watches usually have special features useful to pilots such as: stop watches, compass, and tachymeters.
Most popular brands - Breitling, Citizen, IWC. Check out the Top Pilot Watches for this month.
5. Fashion Fashion watches are either made by fashion brands like Fendi and Louis Vuitton or have added ornamentation or strong design characteristics.
Most popular brands - Guess, Michele, Armani. See this month's Top Fashion Watches.
6. Sport Sports watches are used by a variety of different athletes or by people who want to signal an active lifestyle. Sports watches are made for running, triathlons, yachting, cycling and many more sports. They often have special time keeping functionality like stop watches and they are also built to be more rugged than a standard casual watch.
Most popular brands - Tag Heuer, Breitling, Nike, Casio
7. Pocket This is a traditional style of watch that is kept in a pocket and pulled out when a person wants to tell time unlike a wristwatch that is worn on the wrist and always visible for timekeeping.
Most popular brands - Hamilton, Colibri, Swiss Army, Timex
8. Dress Dress watches are more formal than casual watches and are designed to fit stylistically with formal and/or semi formal attire. Many people wear casual watches during the day and dress watches only on special occasions.
Most popular brands - Rolex Cellini, Movado
9. Vintage Vintage watches are old or antique watches made by traditional watch brands that are often no longer in existence like Hamilton and Elgin.
Most popular brands - Hamilton, Elgin, Gruen, Waltham
10. Children's Children's watches are designed for younger wrists so they are generally smaller and often have licensing of brands like Disney and Spiderman that appeal to kids.
Most popular brands - Swatch, Disney
11. Jewelry Jewelry watches are designed by jewelers and are usually made of the same type of metals as jewelry and they also often have gems included like diamonds.
Most popular brands - Jacob