After near-oblivion, thanks to mobile phones, unflashy wristwatches are back in vogue, thank God
There will always be a market for high-end wristwatches of the sort stolen from footballers’ wrists in Knightsbridge – they are a form of currency. Because watches are the only acceptable form of male jewellery, the wrist is the ideal place for aspiring gazillionaires to advertise their glitz. But who would have thought the ordinary workaday wristwatch would stage a comeback, 30 years after being toppled by the mobile phone, with its built-in digital clock? Once every grown man wore a wristwatch – and owning one was a schoolboy’s rite of passage. ‘When I was 11, my father bought me the cheapest available – the very basic digital wristwatch by Casio,’ says schoolmaster Charles Coll, 40. ‘The joy of being able to time things, such as how fast I could run down the road to the shops, or how quickly I could bike around a circuit, was huge. Your wrist...
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