BASEL
A proper sports watch needs to take our daily abuse with
aplomb and make us look spiffy in a casually elegant sort of way.
Whether actually used for sport or other activity is a really a moot
point as style trumps any ostensible real-world need in each and
every watch category – but we still do love our sports styles.
Typically the robust nature of the type is presented on a
larger and somewhat bolder frame than their dressier and somewhat snobbier dress brethren, but even so we still found our
favorite sport watches embodied a more moderate approach to
size this year, with a majority of profiles landing in the 39-43mm
diameter range.
As usual, this year’s crop of sporting styles continued to
imbue elements of air, land, and seaborne inspiration within their
ethos, while occasionally exploring the well traveled road of cobranding. Taking an existing platform and tweaking it with colors
or logos that tie it to a particular partnership is nothing new, but it
can breathe new life into a well recognized look - while also confirming at a glance when the watch was manufactured – usually in
a “limited” edition.
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WRISTWATCH | 2016
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