In Spain, like in other parts of the world, a woman becomes the recipient of a diamond engagement ring, when she agrees to marry a man. While these are elegant to look at, gifting diamond watches for men and women is also a pragmatic idea. Most of these pieces are compulsory items and you can find several grade one names of the industry creating them with different jewelers selling different types of this jewelry.
Tacori the designer that has earned accolades for making diamond wedding jewelry which takes the best of both worlds - conventional patterns along with modern elegance. Hildago creates pieces that are quite colorful and even quirky, while Christian Bauer (a 130-year-old company) makes diamond jewelry to order and sells its engagement rings only through select retail outlets. The diamonds selected for these sought-after pieces are not the run of the mill diamonds, as they are carefully picked after being certified for clarity and color.
Diamond watches are one type of jewelry that is appreciated and worn by men and women. In fact, the first wristwatches were actually diamond bracelets that had a small timepiece mounted. The first of its type was seen nearly 430 years ago, as a gift from Earl of Leicester to Queen Elizabeth I which was a tiny clock round in shape and studded with diamonds which was suspended from a wristband. Perhaps this was the first authentic diamond timepiece meant for use by the ladies.
On the other hand, till WWI, men liked to sport pocket watches considering wrist watches to be too feminine. The construction of the airplane paved the way for the creation of the first wrist watch for men. The reason for this is since there was no fuel gauge in the early aircrafts both hands had to be kept on the controls always. Hence there was a necessity for a timepiece which would help the pilot to track his range and simultaneously gauge how much fuel was left at the same time would not have to leave the controls simply to grab at his pocket watch.
It is also a fact that both diamond engagement rings and wrist watches for men became in vogue nearly at the same time. Today the three most renowned diamond watches are made by Cartier of France, Citizen from Japan and Movado from Switzerland. The last name makes products which has given Swiss watches the accolade which says ‘runs like a Swiss watch’. If you are looking for diamond watches look at the collection from Movado, who provides a range of over 200 distinctive and selective watches to choose from and they have been in this business now for over 100 years.