Big watches are back

What if we'd been hoodwinked into believing "38mm good, 48mm bad"? Enough of the horological shrinking violet! Whatever the guardians of wrist etiquette may say, big watches, real watches, haven't disappeared for good Mechanical bruisers, hunks of watch, watches that make their presence felt are still very much with us The industry's "New guard" as they're regularly referred to, the likes of MB&F, Urwerk and HYT, have also risen to prominence with "Respectably" sized watches.

Powerful, reassuring and ready for action, big watches radiate a quiet strength, when they aren't putting on a veritable mechanical show Why should we have to go peering under our shirt cuff or hunting for our glasses just to read the time? So how about we give the lie to the old adage that "Less is more" and admit that anything under a 44mm diameter doesn't count! So let's hear it for the big watch with a round-up of the past months' new releases As part of the jubilee collection celebrating its 150th anniversary, IWC came to SIHH in January with three limited-edition Pilot's Watches.

Once again RJ Watches has teamed up with an entertainment company, in this instance Marvel for a watch dedicated to that web-slinging superhero, Spider-Man. . Source