| New Designer Watchesmovado womens watches | | | | used pocket watches exclusively. It wasn't until the |
| are often welcome as gifts - but in some cases, | | | | invention of the airplane that it became necessary to |
| have real symbolism. For example, in Spain, just like | | | | develop a time piece that allowed pilots to tell time |
| many other Western countries, it is traditional for | | | | without removing their hands from the stick. |
| men to present women with engagement rings when | | | | Louis Cartier, who later became well known for the |
| their proposals are accepted. However, Spanish | | | | production of luxury watches, was actually the first |
| women often return the gesture by presenting their | | | | to come up with a practical mens watches designed |
| future husbands with designer watches. This is only | | | | to be worn on the wrist for the benefit of those |
| one of the more unique ways in which mens | | | | early aviators. |
| watches are presented as gifts. | | | | Citizen watches are yet another famous name in |
| A Short History | | | | luxury watches. These were first manufactured in |
| Designer watches and luxury watches have actually | | | | 1918 by a Japanese company, Shoshoka Watch |
| been around for about 500 years, although they | | | | Institute, which changed its name in 1930. To this |
| were usually signs of status or a tool of one's trade, | | | | day, Citizen watches are considered some of the |
| as was the case for railroad mens' pocket watches | | | | finest and most accurate timepieces in the world. |
| and dive watches. The first men's watches appeared | | | | However, the standard by which true luxury watches |
| around the time of Martin Luther in the mid-16th | | | | are measured is Movado. Watches by this famous |
| Century; they were essentially miniature versions of | | | | Swiss company have been famous since the first |
| the spring-wound wall clocks that had been invented | | | | one came out in 1912. Movado diamond watches and |
| less than a century earlier. Rather large and unwieldy, | | | | Movado gold watches are known not only for |
| these early men's watches were worn around the | | | | exceptional quality, but for sleek, minimalist design. |
| neck, fastened by a chain. | | | | Women's movado womens watches come in almost |
| "Bracelet watches," which were the first true | | | | 100 different designs. Movado mens watches also |
| wristwatches, were not mens watches at all; first | | | | come in many different designs - so if you are |
| appearing shortly after the American Civil War, they | | | | planning on presenting one as a gift, it may take you |
| were actually intended to be worn by women. Men | | | | some time to decide on which one to buy! |