RADLEY WATCHES

Radley

Radley is a British company that designs and manufactures various clothing and style items. Since the company's formation in 1998, it has made a name for itself by offering fun, quirky designs that are serviceable as well as stylish. Their creations are out of the ordinary, inspired by influences from all over the globe but combining them into a synthesis that is distinctly British.

This love for delightful distinctiveness is apparent in the watches designed by Radley. The watches themselves have a unique style that sets them apart from many other designer watches. All these Radley watches are for ladies, and they have the colour, flair and allure of beautiful ladies. Colours range from subtle elegance to bright and sassy. Some models use the warm tones of rose gold or stainless steel, while other models bring in more adventurous hues such as purple and green.

Other companies' designer watches look like projects from some unusually ritzy science fair with their high-tech features and radical dial layouts. Radley, on the other hand, is not out to reinvent the wheel. Their watches are beautiful treatments of the standard dial scheme with central-axis hands, sometimes with date windows. Some of the faces are round with grooved bezels of polished or brushed metal. Other models use a rectangular shape that is highly elongated vertically, producing tall, slim faces with non-numerical hour markers. Either way, every timepiece has a feminine élan that will complement that of its wearer.

Here and there in the selection, rows of small baguette diamonds can be seen, but there is a real effort to avoid ostentatiousness in favour of good taste. The stones are there to complement the watch, not dominate it.

The straps and bracelets of these watches deserve a small mention of their own. While metal link bracelets are well-represented here, Bradley's penchant for the creative use of leather shows in many of the examples. In some models, the leather is dyed white, lavender or some other non-leather color, so they almost look like silicon straps. Only on close inspection is it apparent that this is leather. In other examples, the leather is printed or stamped with designs. There are even a few models where the strap is really a bunch of leather strips knotted around the lugs.

Even people who have seen a lot of designer watches will have to admit, these are looks we haven't seen before.


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