Just for Her: Eight Women's Watches to Note

While we know that people of any gender can choose to wear a men’s or a ladies’ watch, many women see a ladies’ watch as one designed with her top of mind. For a woman, a watch may be seen as an integral part of her accessories wardrobe. Color, fit, style, shine, and its weight on her wrist all play into which watch she will choose for a special event, a sport, or as her daily wear. This year has shown us a very fine crop of colorful and creative women’s watches. Beautifully crafted, their colors are especially brilliant or sometimes extremely subtle. A stunning turquoise, green, or purple may dazzle and startle, while gentle mint, persimmon, or lavender provides a wisp of color and a feeling of serenity.

Gem-setting comes to the forefront in women’s watches, and the sparkle of watches as jewelry cannot be understated in its appeal. For a special event, an exquisite watch cannot be matched as the showpiece on your wrist.

Textured dials also have an allure that makes you want to keep looking within them. Each one has its own attraction and inspires you to look at it for much more than just telling the time.

Here we present an array of the latest women’s watches to charm and fascinate— a perfect gift for a loved one or for yourself this holiday season.

Chopard

In Chopard’s Happy Sport collection, its playful gems dancing between two sapphire crystals have captured the imagination since 1993, when Chopard first combined steel and diamonds. Today, Chopard equips the Happy Sport 33 with a mechanical movement with automatic winding made for feminine cases. Presented here in a 33-mm diameter case in 18k ethical rose gold and Lucent steel, this timepiece (Ref. 278608-6013) has a round turquoise mother-of-pearl dial with sunburst base and five dancing white diamonds. The Chopard 09.01-C automatic mechanical movement has a 42-hour power reserve. See-through sapphire caseback. 18k rose-gold crown. Blue alligator leather strap with stainless-steel pin buckle. Price: $11,100.

Bulgari

The new Bulgari Lvcea watch (Ref. 103728) brings glamour and style to everyday life with a 33-mm polished stainless-steel case, green intarsia marquetry dial, and 12 round brilliant-cut diamond indexes. Its three-dimensional dial is crafted with green mother-of-pearl elements faceted and assembled one by one to evoke the rays of the sun using a métiers d’art technique inspired by intarsia. The cabochon-cut synthetic pink sapphire crown is set with a diamond. The automatic Swiss movement has a 42-hour power reserve. The polished and satin-brushed stainless-steel bracelet has a folding buckle. Water resistant to 50 meters. Price: $7,350.

Oris

Oris has introduced a new version of the Divers Sixty-Five with Calibre 400 and no date into its core collection. With a 38-mm stainless-steel case and matching monochromatic unidirectional bezel with minutes scale in relief, this version has an eye-catching brilliant green dial with applied indexes and hands filled with Super-LumiNova. Beneath is the game-changing 5-day anti-magnetic automatic Calibre 400 movement. To mark the addition of Calibre 400, this version has a sapphire caseback to view the movement. Stainless-steel screw-in security crown. Water resistance to 100 meters. Multi-piece stainless-steel bracelet with folding clasp. As with all Calibre 400 watches, this timepiece offers a 10-year warranty. Price: $3,900.

Norqain

The Norqain Adventure Sport 37MM Purple Gradient (Ref. N1800DLA/P181) adds to the Adventure line and embodies the thrill of exploring nature’s playground with its trails, summits, and tides. This new model features a purple gradient dial that has a brilliant sunray finish, a unidirectional rotating bezel set with 60 diamonds, and 11 diamond-set hour markers for day-to-night sparkle. The rhodium-plated hour and minute hands are filled with white Super-LumiNova, as is the tip of the second hand. The 37-mm stainless-steel case has a screw-down crown and is water resistant to 100 meters. The movement is Norqain automatic Caliber N08 (SW200-1a), which can be seen through the sapphire caseback and has a 41-hour power reserve. As shown on a steel bracelet with folding clasp: $6,090. Also available on a white rubber strap.

Nomos

This year, the Nomos Club Campus has a brilliant “endless blue” turquoise dial and comes in two sizes: 36 mm and 38.5 mm. The model shown here (Ref. 717) has a 36-mm stainless-steel case and is slender on the wrist with a height of 8.2 mm. The hour and minute hands are rhodium plated with white Super-LumiNova inlay for blue luminescence. The Arabic and Roman numerals and indexes on the dial are also treated with white Super-LumiNova for legibility in the dark. The small seconds hand stands out in neon orange. The stainless-steel caseback is screwed down and is water resistant to 100 meters. The back may be engraved with a message for a personal touch. The manual-winding in-house Nomos Caliber Alpha has a 43-hour power reserve. The gray remborde strap is made of vegan velour. Price as shown: $1,500. Also available with a “nonstop red” dial.

Citizen

Citizen has added new models to its Citizen L Arcly collection of environmentally conscious, sustainable watches whose design is inspired by and celebrates the 10th anniversary of the first Citizen “Sunrise.” The 31.2-mm stainless-steel models feature a row of three sparkling diamonds connecting the case with an elegant outer ring, symbolizing the first ray of light from the rising sun. The indexes and minute markers are placed in a radial pattern around the deep red dial, like a burst of light, for excellent visibility. Each model comes with an interchangeable strap of deep red synthetic apple leather to swap with the metal bracelet. The translucent blue crown is a feature of the Citizen L. Water resistance of 50 meters. The Citizen Eco-Drive movement E031 transforms sunlight and artificial light into energy to power the watch, which can run for more than six months on a full charge. Shown, Ref. EM1091-67X, price: $595.

Grand Seiko

Two of Grand Seiko’s 2024 releases are a fresh interpretation of the 62GS, retaining fundamental design elements but reducing the case diameter to 38 mm. Shown here is the Heritage Collection SBGH343 “Sakura-Wakaba.” In resonance with the fifth term of the 24 seasons, this watch embraces “Seimei,” which means “clear and bright.” The light green dial mirrors the fresh hues of “Sakura-Wakaba,” cherry blossoms and young leaves. The case is crafted from high-intensity titanium. The crown has a screw-down feature for water resistance to 100 meters. Dual-curve sapphire crystal above the dial. The titanium caseback has a sapphire crystal to feature a view of automatic Caliber 9S85, a Hi-Beat 36,000 movement with an accuracy range of +5 to -3 seconds per day when static and a 55-hour power reserve. The titanium bracelet has a three-fold clasp. Price: $7,300. Also available with a “hiding cherry blossoms” pink dial.

Piaget

Piaget’s 36 mm Polo Date, Ref. G0A49029, has a 36-mm 18k rose-gold cushion-shape case with 60 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 0.97 ct.) that shimmer beautifully on the bezel. The deep blue dial has 18k rose-gold markers set with 36 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 0.07 ct.) for additional sparkle and a date window at 6 o’clock. The sapphire crystal caseback offers a view of the automatic Manufacture 500P1 movement, which has a 40-hour power reserve. The case is slim at 8.8 mm and is water resistant to 50 meters. Interchangeable rose-gold bracelet with triple folding clasp. Price: $53,500.

This article is from the November / December 2024 print edition of WatchTime Magazine. To subscribe, click here.