9 Types of Wrist Watches You Should Know About | The Revolver Watch Club

Apart from being a timekeeper, watches have often served as a status symbol for many years, often being a key indicator of a person’s taste and wealth.
Timepieces can make powerful statements about the person wearing them, and many people wear different watches for different occasions to give the right impression.
If you’re into watches or are simply looking for one quality timepiece, a good starting point is getting a good understanding of your different wristwatch options.
1. Chronographs:
A chronograph saves having to take constant glances at a watch when measuring short intervals of time. And when the time of sporting events was still done by hand, it was also an extremely practical tool.

2. Aviator Watches:
An Aviator watch is a highly accurate timekeeper that can be read easily, even in unfavourable conditions. At the same time there is a whole range of features that are definitely as important in the cockpit as they are in everyday life.

3. Diving Watches:
Diving as a sport did not become really popular until about 25 years ago. Diver's watches, however, have been around for over 70 years. A diver's watch is designed for underwater diving that features, as a minimum, a water resistance greater than or equal to 100 m (330 ft).

4. World Time and GMT Watches:
In other countries, they do things differently. They often have a different time, for instance. If you're in business, or a globetrotter, it's a good idea to wear a watch that tells you what the time is at your destination, but won't let you forget the time at home. There are GMT and World Time watches for the same.

5. Watches With Alarm Features:
Watches with alarm features were always exotic items, although today, when cheap digital watches and mobile phones have alarm functions, they are really only of interest to watch-lovers with a liking for extravagance.

6. Tourbillion Watches:
The basic idea of tourbillion is as simple as it is ingenious. If a watch in a vertical position is allowed to rotate slowly but constantly around the arbour of the hands, all errors of the escapement regulator will have been corrected after each revolution.

7. Calendar Watches:
One of the most useful additional features of a watch, even in the electronic age, is undoubtedly indication of the date. Things are made even easier for the wearer if the watch also shows the weekday, month, and even the year.

8. Repeater Watches:
It wasn't as easy as today to see the time at night in the 17th century. For this reason, ingenious clockmakers devised a striking mechanism for pocket watches, called Repeater watches, that would inform you of the time even in darkness.

9. Smart Watches:
Smart watches do not require much of an introduction. They can perform a myriad of functions alongside the traditional telling time. Taking calls, reading messages and customizing the dial are only some of the limitless features smartwatches offer.
