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Men’s watches for punctual professionals

Men Fashion

The wristwatch is a relatively new addition to timekeeping. For more than three centuries, the most popular portable timepiece was the pocket watch. Introduced in the 16th century, it soon became an indispensible accessory for European gentlemen. But all that changed when the winds of war blew once again. World War I on the Western Front brought a new kind of combat.

It was called trench warfare and it was not only extremely violent, but also quite messy. As you might imagine, pocket watches didnt last long in that environment. They were either lost in the mud and muck, or they broke in pocket. As a result, the wrist watch soon gained a loyal following.Because they had to plan and coordinate attacks, officers were issued wristwatches during the war. The watches became so popular that they were often called trench watches.

By the end of the war, the wristwatch had replaced the pocket watch as the fashion accessory of choice for gentlemen. Of course, these timepieces were still considered luxury item and most men could not afford them. It was not until the 1970s that wristwatches became an affordable accessory.The so-called Quartz Revolution introduced the world to inexpensive electronic watches that were not handcrafted by old-world artisans. They were accurate, easy to use and cheap.

Where are we now? Wristwatches are probably the most popular male accessory. Men arent big on jewelry. But watches are a different issue. You see, they are functional. They tell time. That gives a guy the excuse he needs to wear a more elaborate, decorative watch. In this article we will review a few of the most popular watches for young professionals.

What to Look for?

The watch you wear says a lot about your style. As a general rule, a work watch should not be made of plastic or rubber. It should have real watch hands, not an LCD display. Some type of animal hide or metal should be used on the band and the watch cover should be made of crystal.

Swiss Army Master II

Whether you are working at an ad agency, on Wall Street or at a bank, you will need a watch that keeps good time and has some style. Swiss Army is a name that screams precision and dependability. Not to mention the fact that their timepieces are quite distinctive. The Master II gives you the choice of sporty silver bracelet or an elegant black leather band.

Movado Museum Watch

Movado offers a wide range of watches for young professionals. The Museum Watch is one of their most popular models because of its classic, understated design. Modeled after a sun dial, the watch is famous for its single gold dot and fancy crocodile band. We also recommend the Movados Safiro and Luno collections, which are slightly sportier models with stainless steel bracelets.

Tag Heuer Aquaracer

As the name implies, this watch is a bit sportier than the aforementioned models. But Tag is one of the few watchmakers that can pull it off. With their magical mix of engineering and fashion design, they are able to create watches are both sleek and sporty. No one knows how they do it, but once you strap one to your wrist, you wont much care. The Tag Heuer Aquaracer is one of the most versatile accessories a guy can hope to find. It can be worn with a designer three-piece suit or with a pair of dirty old jeans. It works either way. We recommend the model with the blue dialits more distinctive.

Full-Blooded Silver from Swatch

Theres no need to spend a thousand dollars on a new timepiece. Watches from Swatch are known for their accuracy, durability and affordability. But with the Full-Blooded Silver, they get something they have really never had before: style. The name itself is rather bold, as it describes the silver dial and matching silver bracelet that marks time in three different time zones. Made with the traveler in mind, the watch costs less than most domestic plane rides.

Classic Cartier Tank Watch

Cartier sells expensive things, and the Tank Watch is no exception. Designed for well-paid wunderkind, this timepiece costs over five-thousand dollars. It is popular with younger professionals because the Classic Cartier Tank Watch is less gaudy than most of their other offerings. It is both dressy and sporty and it has seniority. The Tank Watch has been around in one form or another since 1917. Yes, they were making these watches when soliders were in the trenches.

Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner

Rolex has been the gold standard in the watch market for decades. We chose the Oyster Perpetual Submariner over their other fine timepieces because it is actually quite affordable, by Rolex standards. Remember, the average Rolex goes for around ten thousand dollars, and the Submariner is listed at just half that. So, not only is it more affordable, but it also makes a subtle statement, rather than screaming it. If youve been looking for a watch that will make a big impression at the next business meeting while keeping you right on time, consider some of these stand out options.

The Indian Snack Industry And Bikano Namkeen

Industry

Every decade witnesses a change, a change in lifestyles, fashion, living standards, technology, and what not; food habits are no exception. With busy lifestyles pounding on the existence of the urban gentry, it is no longer the usual home made food all the time that is in the platter. Given the demand for food snacks, meals, chaat, sweets, and more, a number of restaurants has cropped. And if the restaurant happens to be that of a reputed brand, you will not easily get a seat; you will have to wait in queue to get it. Even if you want to buy take-away food snacks or chaat or any other items, you will have to wait as there will be many others like you waiting to pay the bill and get the items.

As aforementioned, food habits and lifestyles have changed to a great extent. This has in turn steered the growth of the snack industry. It is namkeen items including potato chips, etc. that are savored by people at large any time of the day while on the move. If you visit a home in India, the hospitality showered comes in the form of serving of some hot or cold beverages with the accompaniment of namkeen items and sweets. Bikano namkeen offered from the house of Bikanervala is one of the most selling items in the Indian snack industry. You will be spoilt for choices when you come across the menu of Bikano namkeen items. Worth mentioning are aloo bhujia, ratlami sev, peanuts, badam lacha, bikeneri bhujia, chana masala, cornflakes mixture, dal moth, ganthiya, kaju mixture, kashmiri mixture, khatta meetha, khoka bhujia, matar masala, moong daal, navratan mixture, peanut masala, and more. It is no exaggeration to point out the fact that once you taste Bikano namkeen, you wont feel like tasting the namkeen of any other brand. Such is the spiciness, taste, crispiness, and flavor associated. The sky is the limit for the Indian snack industry with players like Bikanervala catering to the snack and namkeen needs of the people at large.

When we speak of food snacks, what are the items that fall in the menu? It can be either of kachodi, samosa roll, soya tikki, pav bhaji, vada pav, pakoda, paneer pakoda, bread pakoda, burger, soya masala wada, samosa, gobhi pakoda, paneer tikki, and more. Of course, it will take time to prepare any of these food snacks items at home not to mention the ingredients that you will need to collect first before you start for the preparation. Why worry when you can get high quality and tasty food snacks items in a restaurant near your home or wherever you go. And if it happens to be afternoon or evening, you can satisfy your taste buds with chaat items like aloo tikki, papri chaat, raj kachori, bhalla papri, lachha tokri, pani puri, bhel puri, pao bhaji, dahi bhalla, paneer masala chilla. All chaat items are accompanied with the mouth watering chutney.

Top 4 Complaints When Shopping For Jewelry Appraisals

Jewelry

A store that sold you your jewelry should not appraise your jewelry.

Quite a few stores offer their customers free appraisals with their purchase. In some cases the person doing the appraisal is really a salesperson and is only transferring the stock information to a general appraisal form. A salesperson can have tendencies of inflating the expense to justify the buyers sale and make them feel good about the purchase.

Even though Heritage Appraisers operates their service inside several retail locations they are not the retail sellers. Any information and values are obtained from independent resources.

Appraisers which have not accomplished an accredited Graduate Gemologist Course.

In contrast to other appraisers, jewelry appraisers are usually not federally or nationally regulated, so any individual who wishes to hang a shingle and open for business can. These are usually people who believe because they have been doing business for some period of time, they possess the knowledge to offer credible appraisals

Heritage Appraisers are all members of The National Association of Jewelry Appraisers. To be a member each appraiser must provide proof of their Graduate Gemologist degree from an accredited gemology program and three appraisals to be reviewed before becoming a member.

Avoid appraisers that charge by the measurement of your diamond

Some appraisers will tell you the size of the diamond being appraised justifies a higher fee. A client with a 2.00 carat diamond is likely to pay more than a customer with a smaller diamond.

There is no additional task required to perform the appraisal on the bigger diamond. Heritage Appraisers charges one fee regardless of the sizing of your diamond. There is no more effort involved to assess a 1.00 ct diamond than a 3.00 ct. diamond. Appraisers that charge by size are basing their prices on how much they feel you paid for the item and not the actual work required.

Steer clear of appraisers that inflate the cost of your jewelry

Ask your appraiser how he reaches the values he attaches to your appraisal.

Heritage Appraisers uses current trade information along with multiple years of experience in sales, manufacturing and repair to determine the value. Values for gemstones and diamonds are obtained from regular monthly and quarterly price lists.

Antique jewelry entails more analysis, where recent auction or hammer price could be used to help establish the value. If your appraiser is not using these methods he won’t be able to present you with an correct appraisal.

Future Of Boating And Yachting Industry In China, India And Asia.

Industry

Almost all of us who have anything to do with pleasure boats, wonder how is the boat market going to be in the future? Where is it going from here? Do pleasure boats have any future? Will the trend of owning and selling boats be a larger market or smaller due to world’s economy. What will particularly happen in Asia? Which country will be the major boat market? China, India, Indonesia perhaps? Importantly what steps should be taken today, in order to create a better market in these countries.
In Hongkong, we are realizing the obvious saturation of boating market and almost all dealers and global manufacturers of boats are pointing towards China and India. Making these 2 countries the biggest potential boating markets.
Lets talk about China first and realize that in 2005 we had big hopes for the boating business in China, we thought that the boating industry would be huge by the year 2010. Well, we are in 2010 now and China clearly has not picked up to that level of prediction, so the market is still slower than what the lot of industry experts had predicted. The reason behind that is China’s rules and regulations in pleasure boat industry. Taxation and licensing rules are very unclear in China. The rules are different for different states in China and for new boats there is a 40% tax.

Infrastructure and development speed in China however, is fantastic. But there are very few pleasure boats that are floating on the waters of China. There are definitely buyers for a high end yachts, but the maintenance is still difficult and costly. People are prepared to pay to own a luxury yacht but they are not willing to put a lot of time, over spend on maintenance, pay high taxes and go through long procedures to acquire licenses. Some marina clubs in China are now assisting in providing necessary licenses for their members, but it is not cheap. Another way the Buyers handle this issue, is by simply keeping and using their boats in Hongkong. This obviously overcrowds HK’s marinas and does not help much to boost sales into China.

A way to overcome this issue and in order to create better regulations in future, is for brokers in Hong Kong to sell more low priced and good quality used boats into China. If dealers stop hunting for high end clients and direct more marketing towards the younger and median rich clientele, It will create a lot more pleasure boats in the waters of China. The market will surely respond. Forbes list of 2010 confirms that there are 64 billionaires in China, however, a point to note that there are over 900,000 people whose net worth is more than 10 million RMB. Majority of these people are younger than 39. Even a larger and younger population exist, who are up to 5 million RMB worth.

There are definitely more number of people who are willing to spend a small amount of money initially for a boating venture. Since boating lifestyle is not very common for China, the importance should be given to bringing more boats into China, which are not very expensive and are good in quality.
This can fill the marinas, force the management to grow and also provide decent opportunities for shipyards to work.
It will also force government to look into creating manageable regulations and taxing, and if the growth of this concept is healthy, this will undoubtedly create a friendlier and hassle free market for the high end yacht buyers. In any case, China will have a large boating market, but to make it earlier than later, depends on our actions today.
Lets talk about India.
One of the biggest advantages India has is that Indian mentality and lifestyle is very adaptable to western lifestyle. India adapts and accepts ideas, culture and products from the west very easily. High number of Indian population speaks in English. Almost everyone understands English. If you are a non-Indian company, you can easily find educated work force in India. It is also easy to set up a service centre and to train workers due to India’s language capabilities and educated population.
GDP growth of India is currently 7.2%, The country is ranking no.5 in the billionaires list and India currently holds approximately 200,000 millionaires with net worth of USD 1 million to 10 million, and a larger population of people that are worth slightly less. India’s upper middle class population is expected to grow about 10 times in the next 10-15 years.
But here are the set backs! India’s politics is a chaos, corruption exists in many sectors and things become inefficient.
Major concern is that the infrastructure growth is slow. Due to corruption and differences in political groups, it is difficult to commence any kind of infrastructure. The marina which was due to be built more than 5 years ago in south of India is still not ready. Therefore the speed of development of marinas is a lot slower than China. Boat owners still do not have berthing facilities in India.
On a positive note, being the world’s largest democracy the rules and regulations are flexible and with its plus points, if the luxury boat business does reach a good start like having few working marinas and few decent boats. Indian market for boats will see faster growth than of China’s boating market.
The dealers of boats in India also need to market cheaper and quality yachts for bigger clientele. More boat chartering businesses also can boost the industry in this initial stage.
I am also sure it wont be too long until I can have hassle free cruises in the waters of India and China.

by Baggy Sartape
For more info on boats www.asia-boating.com

TIE-DYE no JEANS

Jeans

O tie-dye surgiu na moda no final dos anos 60 e anos 70, no movimento mais conhecido como movimento Hippie. Leva esse nome por ser uma estampa derivada da tcnica amarrar (tie) e tingir (dye).

Essa moda j est nos registros da histria da moda, mas ainda hoje faz a cabea das fashionistas mais antenadas. E seu maior destaque ser uma pea chave no look, assim pra voc que gostou dessa moda lembre-se sempre que uma pea chave deve ser o destaque, combinando sempre com uma blusa, camisa ou at mesmo um blazer bsico sem estampas.

Alm do tie-dye clssico no jeans desbotado, a tendncia vem com um estilo mais moderno atravs das cores do tie-dye misturadas, lembrando estampas abstratas.

Podemos notar em nossas pesquisas que essa uma tendncia que ainda vai se esticar por diversos tecidos e modelagens e por vrias estaes ,fique ligada e adote a sua preferida.

Essa foi a nossa dica de beleza de hoje, esperamos que tenham gostado.

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