Santa Monica Area Health, Beauty and Fitness | Prestige and Luxury Wristwatches at a Reasonable Price for Dad's Gift

How about something classy and classic for your Dad?  A luxury mechanical wristwatch, makes the perfect gift.  That's something that will be both appreciated and useful for years.  Forget about the latest soon-to-be-obsolete electronic toy.  Surprisingly, you can obtain well-made luxury wristwatches for around $100.  Of course, you can pay much more for a prestige brand, jeweled adornments, Swiss certified accuracy, and more features.  But for value for the price, there is Stauer wristwatches.

A few of their offerings, two at just under $100, two at under $200, and one for a little less than $2000, are outlined below.  Of course, they have many more, many of them in the $100 to $200 range.

The "Stauer Magnificat Wristwatch" brings the impeccable quality and engineering once found only in the collections of the idle rich to you at an astoundingly reasonable price.  A guilloche face, azure-colored hands, three interior dials for day, date, and 24-hour moon phases, all powered by a 27-jewel automatic movement.  And all for less than $179 as you can see on the Stauer wristwatch website.

See right through to the precision parts and hand assembled movement and into the heart of a unique timepiece - the "Stauer 1779 Skeleton Watch".  This is a painstaking recreation of a 227-year-old design.  The Stauer Skeleton Wristwatch allows you to wear on your wrist and observe a fascinating bit of watchmaking history.  And for less than $100 from the Stauer wristwatch web site.

The crowning achievement for any luxury watchmaking company is to develop a "whirlwind" movement wristwatch.  In French, that is "tourbillon", as invented and named by the legendary Louis Breguet in 1800.  Even now, most watchmakers don't even try to make such watches, the engineering being so demanding.  The movement provides more accuracy by counteracting the effects of gravity on the parts by encasing them in a rotating cage.  Stauer offers an automatic tourbillon wristwatch with 320 parts that you can see in operation through an exhibition crystal on the back and a window on the front.  And, the price is a startlingly low price of $1995.

Modeled on a rare and classic automatic movement made for millionaire Henry Graves in 1933, the "Graves '33 Wristwatch" is a faithful emulation of the original, and for a far lesser price.  Yet, it is 27-jewelled and water- resistant to five atmospheres, with over 210 parts.  Its "complications" include month, day, date, and sun and moon.  And, it is only $99 as shown on the Stauer website.

Luxury wristwatches cases can be in 'plain old' stainless steel to yellow gold, white gold, rose gold, platinum, and even palladium!  See lots of great watches at web sites linked to Prestige Wristwatches.

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