A great dress watch doesn’t have to cost as much as a car.

James Bond wears a dive watch with a tuxedo, but that doesn’t mean you should. Today’s culture is more casual than ever, but there’s still a place for that most archetypal of all timepiece styles: the dress watch. Though simple by nature, dress watches don’t need to be boring or relegated solely to stuffy events — and they don’t have to cost an arm and a leg.

Though loosely defined, you mostly know a dress watch when you see one: it’s like a suit for your wrist, with clean lines and monochromatic colors that’ll tastefully accent formal attire (or even a T-shirt and jeans, if you so choose). In its purest and most classical form, a good dress watch should be simple and restrained in terms of size and design, but carry a sheen of refinement.
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