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Five Reasons Why Your Next Watch Should Be Pink
Words by Mr Chris Hall
1 August 2022
Pink gets a bad rep – just ask a parent. A century of heavy-handed gender stereotyping has burdened it with some cultural baggage that’s been hard to shift. But fundamentally it’s a colour like any other and this summer it has finally arrived in the watch world. Well, outside the patronising “shrink it and pink it” approach under which so-called ladies’ watches have laboured for years, that is. Here are five unisex designs that embrace pink as a considered choice, rather than a wacky novelty or lazy default. From coral to cerise, bubble-gum to blush, it’s time to give pink a chance.
01.
NOMOS Glashütte Club Campus 38
Like the transition in a high-school movie when the token geek whips off his or her glasses to emerge as a head-turning stunner, this is something of a new vibe for the normally buttoned-up NOMOS, and we like it. The robust steel case of the Club Campus is more than a match for the deep pink dial, which also stands out for its California mix of Arabic and Roman numerals.
02.
Oris Divers Sixty-Five
One of three bronze models with pastel dials that Oris calls the Cotton Candy collection. This Divers Sixty-Five confounds expectations by pairing a saccharine-sweet dial colour with a brusque bronze that is destined to adopt a weathered patina while the dial within remains bright, preserved even better than the most artificial of sweets.
03.
laCalifornienne Daybreak
How is the blush-pink dial not even the boldest thing about this watch? laCalifornienne is probably best known for its striped leather straps – you can check out the collection here – but it also produces watches, influenced by versatile classics such as the Cartier Tank. Although you’ve never seen a Tank looking quite like this – 1960s psychedelia meets 1980s excess.
04.
TOM FORD Timepieces 002
All right, Sherlock, we hear you. The watch itself isn’t pink. Like the Unimatic below, though, the pink strap defines its character. Woven from reclaimed plastic bottles, it’s somewhere between dusky pink and full-on magenta and takes the regular monochrome watch, also made from recycled plastic, to new places. Perfect for dressing down on holiday.
05.
Unimatic Modello Uno
New to MR PORTER, Unimatic’s Modello Uno series is the purest distillation of the brand’s graphic-heavy, text-light dive watch. This limited-edition run even loses the hour markers completely. It’s a 40mm black-coated stainless-steel design with 300m water resistance, workaday Seiko NH35 automatic calibre inside and a 41-hour power reserve, but you’ll know it as the one with the baby-pink rubber strap.