Time is the most valuable asset, which must be why watch brands are pouring resources into sustaining this thinking. Indeed, the industry spends a great deal of marketing dollars-hosting lavish parties, underwriting large-scale events, and recruiting A-list talents as brand ambassadors- to create an aura of prestige and provide reasons for why timepieces, more often than not, exceed the seven figure range.

Below are 4 Watch Brands For Women

Watch Brands Patek Philippe

It was 1839 when Antoine Norbert de Patek and Francois Czapek joined forces to make pocket watches in Geneva, Switzerland. Years later in 1851, after French watchmaker Adrien Philippe replaced Czapek, the company scored a major coup when England’s Queen Victoria Bought their keyless pendant watch eventually opening the floodgate to other royal clients. Throughout the subsequent decades, the newly minted Patek Philippe revolutionized the watchmaking industry, garnering patent after patent, from the perpetual calendar mechanism and double chronograph to self-winding mechanism and time-zone watches. When the company announces a new collection or additions to an existing one, watch collectors wait with bated breath, showing the brand’s eminence in the industry. Though anything from the company is worth the investment, what really epitomizes the swiss watch purveyor is the perpetual Calendar.

Watch Brands – Hermes

Few labels can rival the reputation Hermes has in the world of luxury leather. After all, it started as a manufacturer of accessories for carriages in 1837. It has since become a full-fledged lifestyle brand, introducing timepieces to its stable in 1978. Under the moniker La Montre Hermes SAQ, the subsidiary operates in Biel, Switzerland, where it creates collections that fall in line with the parent company’s heritage. And no watch encapsulates this principles more than Cape Cod. First introduces in 1991, the timepiece was the brainchild of fashion designer Martin Margiela, who was the artistic director of the brand’s ready-to-wear line at the time. Seven years later, it introduced a distinct double strap made of leather, further highlighting Hermes’s equestrian roots.

Watch Brands – Bulgari

Bulgari’s grasp on the fine jewelry industry is exceptional. The Italian label, founded by Sotirio bulgari in 1884, has been lauded for its bold, sizable designs that recall the Greek and Roman baubles from antiquity-albeit with a modern twist. The most iconic of these designs is Serpenti, a style that centers on the snake and uses the tubogas technique, allowing a piece to coi; around the wrist to wondrous effect. So when Bulgari decided to introduce watches to the company in the late 1940s, the Serpenti was the obvious choice. Keeping to its jewelry roots, the serpenti has evolved over the decades to feature diamonds, rubies, enamels, and all manner of gems.

Watch Brands – Fossil

With designs rooted in Americana, particularly vintage print advertisement, Fossil has distinguished itself from other watch brands that took their European origins. It should come as no surprise, then, that the label was founded in 1984 by a Texas family.  Five years later, fossil launched two women’s lines, Elegant Manhattan and providence which leaned toward the ornamental and geometric qualities typified by the Art Deco style of the 1920s and ‘30s.