Get Yourself a Skeleton Watch
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by: vannas
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Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 Time: 1:05 AM
A skeleton watch refers to a mechanical or sometimes Quartz watch all of whose moving parts are visible through the front of the watch, the back of the watch or a small cut outlining the dial. Swatch, Kudoke, Tissot Le Locle are all among the famous makers of skeleton watches.
Featuring some unique styles, skeleton watches are both charming and breathtaking in that you take a quick glance at it the manifestation of the internal machinery and the moving parts of the watches are laid bare to you and are quite breathtaking. However, the appearance of skeleton watches can also differ with various designs. Some let us see a portion of the working parts surrounding the watch face, while some of them only show a little bit of the internal parts from the sides, but a few give us a full view from the back.
There are a lot of designs of skeletons on the market, usually with different straps, like regular watches. However, since skeleton watches are always “plain-looking”, there are few skeleton watches available for women and they appear to have wide appeal to men.
Sometimes the skeleton watch face shows working parting behind it, it can prove a little hard to tell the time. Besides some of them have extremely small numbers on the watch face. But this isn’t a cause for worry since there are so many skeleton watches; there must one that can meet your needs and preferences.
Now the qualities of skeleton watches on the market are quite uneven with their prices accordingly varying. Low-end watches are no more than 100 dollars while the prices of high-end watches especially ones of famous brands are be rather astonishing.
Its transparent materials endow them with one special and fascinating feature that no other watch can emulate. If you are really a watch buff and desperate to see how watches really work, why they tick, then skeleton watches are your choice.
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