Springing forward into your double-oh-seven, ‘tis the season to hustle an hour ahead into more working hours, reshape your hourglass for summer fun, and —

Upgrade your wrist candy. ‘Cause —

“Let’s face it — you need a watch,” says ThisNexter Phil.

You got it, gorgeous.  But not just any watch, love: you need a watch you can watch, a piece of wrist candy with smarts to rival your Blackberry, beauty to rival your blingy bangle, you need —

“Not a disposable Swatch, but a watch,” continues ThisNexter Phil. “A machine with a real mechanical movement that can be a lasting talisman of your style. It’s gonna cost you, because this is for more than time and you won’t be using a battery. It is for craft, precision, expression and permanent value. So instead of buying 20 dreary throwaway watches over the next few years, save up for one. It’s a start and there’s no better way than to start with this one: the Mazzuoli Manometro. Simple, Italian, unusual, precise, weighty and loaded with taste.” 

Go on, gorgeous. Let’s hear how unlike that Folex —

Don’t worry, doll, you told me, remember? Your K’s not just guessing. 

— You dropped a benjamin on, this S-E-X-y Italiano is —

“One perfect object absent anything superfluous,” says Phil. “Mazzuoli selected a proven Swiss automatic movement and included an anti-shock mounting scheme. The leather strap is novel in its attachment to the case, incredibly durable, and interchangeable. You can have your Manometro in a polished or satin finish steel case. Your dial can be cream, white, black, or blue. Your strap can be tan, brown, black, navy or wine-red. A right-wrist version for lefties places the crown on the left side of the case, at 10 o’clock. Mine is polished, classic cream face, tan leather strap, standard 2 o’clock crown.”

Dense with details, it’s every little choice that the designer makes that leads to the watch’s quality, that transforms into your brain’s pleasure as you add up every plus in the unblemished leather and clear steel, that translates into —

“I have fallen in love with this watch,” says ThisNexter Vicarious Rising. “I am going to run off with it. Seriously. I’m a sick, sick girl.”

 

No, doll, you’re healthy. While admiring wrist candy can be pure intellectual candy, more often, just like that hautie you double-checked while Starbucksing, watching a watch will birth a gut reaction that’ll simply inspire a —

“Whoa…sexy,” says So Kyute Plus Rad, about this E8 watch by Brieuc Duroscoat for Lexon.