Lambretta Watches

Lambretta Watches

Lambretta’s watches are masterpieces of simple elegance. Their slender hands, unadorned dials and matching straps have a minimalist charm that is hard to find in the world of designer watches. This is a field where gaudiness and ostentation are often regarded as virtues, and it is a refreshing change to see a watch designer who creates beautiful timepieces without either. Certainly there is something to be said for technical achievement and intricate, well-executed design, but there is also something to be said for Lambretta.

Lambretta’s Cielo watches have unmarked faces in a single brilliant color with three narrow hands and no other features. The straps match the color and have the same delightful smoothness as the faces. These pieces represent the basic wristwatch design reduced to its simplest elements.

Lambretta’s Franco series also illustrates their talent for making great composition out of the simplest elements. Here the dials have non-numerical hourmarkers, but the faces are otherwise featureless and monochromatic. Straps of leather or metal mesh complete the great style of these pieces.

This spare, Bauhaus-like look is the dominating theme of Lambretta’s watches, but every watch designer has some atypical lines. Lambretta ‘s Imola, Enzo, Brunori and Rebel lines feature more conventional designs showing the same talent. Bezels of brushed metal encircle faces with hourmarkers or numerals and standard arrangements of two or three hands.

Enzo and Imola have a cool, businesslike look emphasized by cases and link bracelets of shining metal. The faces are broad and rectangular without numerals. Rebel and Brunori have bands of stitched leather giving them a somewhat more relaxed, casual look.

On the Imola line, the design departs from the simplicity that characterizes most Lambretta pieces. This is Lambretta’s Grand Prix series, so they incorporated a chronograph feature in the tradition of all fine sport watches. There are three sub dials to accommodate 24-hour, 60-minute and 60-second timers. The dial has a three-color design to make it easy to read in hectic moments.

These selections are all unisex, and ladies and gentlemen will find them equally appealing. The understated harmony of their lines and colours gives them the ability to work well with anyone’s appearance.

Because they’re not ornate or intricate, Lambretta watches make great gifts for people who aren’t fancy dressers. Those who think they’re not interested in fashion will look quite fashionable wearing a Lambretta.

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