Gucci men's watch review

Everyone knows that the most famous and respected in the world are Swiss watch manufactories. The products of fashion brands (fashion houses and famous designers) occupy their niche in this market. Haute couture brands are not afraid of bold style solutions, placing watches in a range of fashion accessories along with jewelry and leather goods. For almost half a century, the Italian House of Gucci has been producing men's watches, which are quite prestigious to own, because the brand is one of the leaders in the fashion industry.

Founded in 1921 by the Italian Guccio Gucci the luggage and horse riding workshop has grown into a vast empire, whose army of admirers includes presidents, Hollywood stars and the European nobility. Innovation and progressiveness are not empty words for all generations of Gucci's reign: they were the first fashion brand to make their own watches.

At the turn of the 70s last century, Aldo Gucci decided to master a new industry and attracted Severin Montres to watch production, whose founder Severin Wunderman is called a legendary watchmaker with a unique handwriting. The virtuoso designer Wunderman laid the foundation for the Gucci watch history, bringing huge profits to the brand, and in 1997 he sold it his license and factory in Switzerland.

Started era Gucci Timepieces with original design findings and the highest Swiss quality.

Gucci watches are produced in the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the west of Switzerland and are labeled Swiss Made, which ensures their impeccable accuracy and long work. The automatic watch features iconic mechanics from ETA and Sellita. In quartz crystals, the famous mechanisms from the companies Ronda and ETA.

Water resistance Gucci men's watches range from 3 ATM (30 m) to 20 ATM (200 m). Gucci's current creative director, Alessandro Michele, like his predecessors, legendary directors Tom Ford and Frida Giannini, has its own style, but carefully uses the recognizable brand elements of the brand that have been carried through the years, such as:

• patterned engraving Diamante;
• GUCCI logo;
• diamond pattern and mirrored or intertwined GG initials;
• The Gucci Horsebit - stirrup detail
• three stripes of Web tape (red between green);
• images of insects and animals: tigers, cats, bees, royal snake;
• classic symbols: triangle and heart.

In 2020, the Gucci men's watch catalog consists of 5 lines.

• Eryx - watches equipped with automatic winding by hand movement. Some have a gold-colored vacuum PVD coating, others stainless steel.

• G-chrono - quartz chronographs in black-gold and steel versions.

• G-timeless - an extensive collection of more than 20 models with traditional and new symbols of the Maison Gucci aesthetics.

• Gucci dive - the line in the style of diving watches attracts with bold solutions: embroidery on the dial, nylon straps, bright rubber bracelets.

• Le Marché Des Merveilles - a daring line with animals from the outlandish Gucci garden.

For lovers of extraordinary design, a model has been created G-timeless with a large print of a snake curling around a braided steel bracelet. Its head finds itself on a dial with a ribbed pattern. Many men will be attracted strict geometry of watches GG2570all you have to do is choose between the sporty striped nylon strap or the metal option.

The youthful unisex model Grip. The metal dial (4 designs) has apertures: hours, minutes, date. The watch has a series of straps: alligator leather, textiles, metal. Subtly reminiscent of a bathroom scale, Grip has boldly redesigned the retro look and shape of the 1970s and 80s watches. According to the designers, they were inspired by the world of skateboarders.

The 2020 collection brings the world's most famous mouse, Mickey Mouse, to the Grip. Available with a metal bracelet and a GG Supreme textile strap.

When choosing a watch, take into account the character, lifestyle, age of its future owner. The accessory must be commensurate with the hand and overall build: on a large man, a thin small model will simply "get lost." Textiles and rubber are suitable for a sporty style, expensive leather and a noble shine of metal will give solidity. Chronograph watches look stylish and expensive.

Gucci is one of the most frequently counterfeited brands, so shop around only in the official store. Gucci men's watches combine the polish and hot temperament inherent in Italians. These models certainly cannot be called boring and unremarkable.

For an overview of Gucci watches for men, see the following video.