Other fine high-end watches include Cartier and Omega.

Affordable Treats

If you're a mere mortal with a penchant for arriving at your destination in style at prescribed time (perhaps your job depends upon it), your idea of a good watch probably resides in $100-500 range, and maybe even toward lower end of that scale. You know names Seiko, Swiss Army, Pulsar, and Citizen—just to name a few. The brands available in this price range offer a wide selection of choices ranging from simple and elegant leather bands, to mesh and link bands. You'll find analog and digital displays, timers, calendar displays, water-resistance, etc. in this price range. In fact, this price range offers widest variety in terms of elegance, precision time keeping, and fashion choices. You can select from a number of watches using Swiss-quartz movements in this price range.

For Fun of it

You'll find everything from designer-of-the-moment watches to household names such as Swatch and Fossil in below-$100 range. The Fossil collections feature casual and dress watches in a dizzying array of choices, and provide dependable service as well. Fossil offers a lot of bang for buck—fashion, dependability, variety.

Starting at $40, Swatch offers most in up-to-the-minute throwaway watch fashion. The company began late in 20th century as a consortium of Swiss watchmakers and worldwide graphical designers with one goal: to resurrect analog watch. Swatch has come a long way since those days, and one of their newer creations, Skin Diamond watch, can set you back a cool $2000. Of course, you won't run into yourself coming and going if you sport this new status symbol. The rest of us can settle with wearing our moods on our wrists.

And, last but certainly not least—depending on your current age—this category satisfies Abercrombie-and-Fitch, Top 40 crowd with an assortment of watches from king of teen designers, Tommy Hilfiger himself.

Whatever your pleasure in marking time, find it, get it, own it, wear it. Mere mortals like us can browse and purchase watches of our choice right here—online.

In many cases antique jewelry has also been handed down from one generation to another and is a part of family heirlooms. Some antique jewelry can actually be quite expensive and a real collectors item.

Just a simple piece of antique jewelry can greatly enhance your over all appearance, add to your appeal and lend a sophisticated charm to your entire persona. Being beautiful pieces that they are, this jewelry can easily attract attention and can become focal point of any conversation. However not every one can carry off antique jewelry, you have to have a certain inner beauty and dignity to wear it.

One of best things about antique jewelry is that its value only appreciates with time. In fact some of pieces are valuable collector's item and can fetch huge sums of money. They can in long run, actually prove to be good investments.

Antique jewelry is a wonderful thing to buy for yourself, a delightful possession and also a great thing to gift to some one special in your life. Whether it is your daughter, mother, wife, girlfriend or sister; antique jewelry is that gift which lets other person know how much they mean to you. Also this jewelry is not just restricted to women; there are beautiful intricate pieces which are there for men too.

So go ahead indulge yourself and relive beauty of a bygone era.