Watches have come a far way as fashion accessories and hardly are the time pieces they used to be. And like everything thing else that is related to fashion, a designer or brand tag adds to the value of the product, designer names and big brands in watches too adds to your style statement and social status in some cases.

Designer and branded watches

These are masterpieces from big fashion houses or reputed brands. These watches are usually a social status symbol like any fashion brand and often highly priced. The most respected and celebrated brands of watches are Cartier, Tag Heuer, Omega, Bvlgari, Jean Dunand, Franck Muller, Movado, Swatch, Wenger, Girard-Perregaux, Rolex, Jaeger Le Coultre, Swiss Army, Tissot, Piaget, Zenith, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Breguet including others. Some of these brands like Patek Phillips, Omega, Rolex, Audemars Piguet including a few more are sported by some of the richest people including celebrities, Hollywood and Bollywood hotties, business tycoons, socialists including the royalty.

Then came the trend of fashion watches that was inspired by the fashionable and cheaper wrist watch introduced by Swatch in the 1980s. This was the start of a new trend in the wrist watch industry and the introduction of wrist watches as fashion accessories. Some popular brands for fashion watches are Gucci, , Guess, Fossil, DKNY, Calvin Klein, Chanel, B. Fendi, Technomarine, Milleret, Dior and Fastrack. Though these watches are priced less than the designer wrist watches, still the costs can be exorbitant especially if you are used to having more than one watch.

Replica watches

Replica watches represent the huge unbranded watch market. These are called replica watches because the design or the style of the watch is inspired or an exact replica of a designer, branded watches and fashion watches from well known brands. Lately replica watches have become very popular and one can see the markets flooded with breathtakingly beautiful and stylish watches in amazingly affordable prices.

So now when the world is raving about a hot fashionable look, why should you be aloof? Get in the action with some funky, fashionable, stylish and jazzy wrist watch adding to your looks. With the wide variety and the highly affordable prices you can never have too many.

While you can go shopping for your watch ensemble in your favorite mall or the fashion street, the internet by the way can be a great place to shop. Huge selection, bargain prices, suggestions, first hand user reviews and all you need is just a click away. Happy shopping!