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Is A New Watch The Key To Sticking With Your New Year’s Resolutions?
Words by Chris Hall
6 January 2023
You might be familiar with the idea that if you make a financial commitment, you’ll be more likely to stick to a New Year’s resolution. Taking out a new gym membership, for example, or buying smart cycling gear. Well, allow us to introduce the official, practical and entirely sensible MR PORTER Horological Motivation Plan for 2023. That’s right: what better way to cement a new lifestyle choice than buying the appropriate watch first? Think of it as a particularly high-stakes exercise in manifesting. Dress for the life you want and all that. And if all else fails, you’ll still have gained a really nice watch.
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The travel watch
It’s time to see the world. Or at least, see more of it than you might have been able to over the past few years. Hit those January airline sales and get globetrotting, with the Girard-Perregaux Laureato WW.TC, a manufacture world timer from one of Switzerland’s oldest watchmakers. It’s cased in a lightweight titanium case with a rubber strap, so it’s well suited to the rigours of travel.
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The dress watch
Is 2023 going to be the year you ditch the sweats and hoodies and get back into suits, shirts and shoes? Then you’ll need a suave dress watch to match, yes sir. Blow dust off the shoe polish tins, buff up your sterling silver cufflinks and strap on this Cartier Tank Americaine. Let this be your formal introduction to a year of sharp creases and stiff drinks.
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The health and fitness watch
The archetypal January pledge: I shall improve my physical self, revealing the chiselled form of a Greek statue from my festively-rounded torso. Or maybe you have longer-term and less vain ambitions. Either way, it might be time to invest in a fitness tracking watch like Frederique Constant’s Vitality, which has the distinct advantage of also looking like a regular watch.
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The adventure watch
You can do anything you put your mind to, you know. Climb mountains. Learn to scuba dive. Trek through jungles and kayak down white rapids. If you’re determined to venture out of your comfort zone this year, you’ll already know it’s about packing the right kit. That should include a watch that can handle whatever life throws at it, such as this forged-carbon Panerai submersible with 300m water resistance.
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The power watch
This is going to be your year. You can feel it. Success, prosperity and power are just around the corner. Time for people to know you’ve arrived, and regardless of whatever else may change in life, a serious watch remains the most bankable way of letting the world see that you’re an individual with taste, sophistication and – let’s not beat about the bush – means. We recommend this Vacheron Constantin FiftySix tourbillon.
