A first watch, not a forever watch
By Priya Nair, Singapore ยท
I get asked about watches like this one more often than about Royal Oaks, usually by someone buying for a niece's graduation or a wife's birthday on a sensible budget.
For 650 to 900 dollars, it's a reasonable answer. 30 mm steel case, 7 mm thick, white dial with a heart motif and small diamond markers, date, quartz, steel bracelet, sapphire crystal. It looks polished, it fits a slim wrist well, and it won't need much more than a battery now and then.
Quibbles: the date window clutters a dial that's already doing a lot, the diamonds are tiny enough that they read more as sparkle than stones, and resale is effectively zero. If the person you're buying for is going to fall in love with watches, she'll want a Tank Must in a few years. That's fine. Every collection starts somewhere.