Affordable Watches for Women

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redwrwf

Discussion Starter · Sep 19, 2016

Hello all,

My Mom recently asked me to help her look for a new watch. She was interested in a Michael Kors watch but didn't want to spend much more than 100$. I also feel as though Michael Kors watches aren't very well made for their price. So my question to you all is what is a good quality women's watch for around 100$?

Any advice is much appreciated

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Slarnos

· #4 · Sep 20, 2016

I'll add another vote for Victorinox. My mother's had her Victorinox for probably close to a decade at this point, and the examinations I've given it (the work I've had to do on it has, if I remember correctly, been blessedly limited to telling her what the end-of-life warning meant) have genuinely impressed me. Solid construction with good attention to detail, and styled quite well.

"Mechanical watches are so brilliantly unnecessary.
Any Swatch or Casio keeps better time, and high-end contemporary Swiss watches are priced like small cars. But mechanical watches partake of what my friend...calls the Tamagotchi Gesture. They're pointless in a particularly needful way; they're comforting precisely because they require tending.
And vintage mechanical watches are among the very finest fossils of the predigital age. Each one is a miniature world unto itself, a tiny functioning mechanism, a congeries of minute and mysterious moving parts. Moving parts! And consequently these watches are, in a sense, alive. They have heartbeats. They seem to respond, Tamagotchi-like, to 'love,' in the form, usually, of the expensive ministrations of specialist technicians. Like ancient steam tractors or Vincent motorcycles, they can be painstakingly restored from virtually any stage of ruin."

William Gibson, "My Obsession"
Wired, 1999

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