Omega Speedmaster Ladies 38mm: A Man's Watch By Any Other Name?

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed)
Jan 31st 2010 at 12:01PM

Men's watches are in for women. In Europe and Asia for example it is exceedingly common to see a woman wearing a Panerai watch. They look good together as well. Though this is still a clear case of a woman wearing a man's watch. The opposite is not particularly common. Then you have the odd case of the man's watch in drag. Which is basically what you have here. The new for 2010 Omega Speedmaster Ladies 38mm watch more or less looks like a man's watch that has been shrunk by maybe a couple of millimeters and given a diamond bezel treatment. Is that all it takes these days to go from man-tool to she-jewel?

"Strong enough for a man, but made just for a woman" should be a borrowed slogan of this watch. Having said that, if the shoe fits and the style looks good on the ladies, who cares? I just find it amusing that Omega is playing dress up with masculine style watches and giving them a speckled treatment around the edges and calling them "miss." Maybe in a year or two the watch will come in all steel, have a black alligator strap, grow 2mm in size and no one would know it started life in a pink colored room.

As such, for this Speedmaster Ladies 38mm, you know the case size, which is in steel with pink gold pushers, dial accents and the bezel - which has 54 diamonds all around it. Inside the watch is an Omega caliber 3304 automatic movement with a 12 hour chronograph, time, and the date. Strap is gray alligator, and this is one watch that any man close to the female owner might mistake for his own. Debut of the watch will be in a few months at Basel 2010. Price TBA.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

Tags: 2010, 38mm, ladies, omega, speedmaster, watch

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lawsandlessons Jan 31st 2010 3:30PM

There are so many great watches out there, but so many of the ones I like are man-sized and far too large for me. It would be great if the original design came in a smaller size. I don't need it to be pink or covered in jewels, I just want an awesome watch that fits.