Watches: the bigger, the bolder, the better
Over the last few years there has been an explosion in the size of watches, says analyst
Amsterdam
JORDY Cobelens was a 22-year-old Dutch disc jockey, working in Amsterdam electro clubs in 2005, when he noticed that a lot of the club kids around him were wearing bigger and bigger wristwatches.
"I had a girlfriend at the time, and she wanted to have a men's watch, and she wanted the biggest one available," he recalled. "There were brands making them, but they were much more expensive than we could afford."
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