Best unisex watches

The field watch is the most neutral design there is, and this one has sapphire, 100m and an 80-hour automatic with a Nivachron hairspring in a 38mm case.

Two years of warranty and no US service price list.

Mechanically identical to the Murph and usually cheaper, because it does not carry a film's name. 47mm lug-to-lug on a 38mm case is a genuinely versatile footprint.

The same 38mm case at 9.5mm thick, hand-wound with 80 hours of reserve — the one that slides under any sleeve.

Rated 50m.

No rotor means fewer parts and a thinner case, and the H-50 runs 80 hours on a wind. This is the simplest genuinely good mechanical watch on this site, and simple is what survives.

An 80-hour Swiss automatic at 35mm with sapphire and 100m, backed by Tissot's published $210 service price.

The integrated bracelet uses an 11mm fitting, so it cannot go onto a standard strap.

An 80-hour Swiss automatic at 35mm with sapphire and 100m, backed by Tissot's published $210 service price. The integrated bracelet is the long-term trade — an 11mm fitting is not a strap size, so you keep the bracelet the watch came with or you keep nothing.

Titanium, sapphire and 200m in a 38mm case with a 44mm lug-to-lug — a tool watch at a size anyone can wear.

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The NH38A is the movement every independent watchmaker already knows, which is the whole serviceability argument in one line. A 44mm lug-to-lug on a 38mm case is about as wearable as a 200m watch gets.

Sapphire, 100m and solar power at 36mm and a 44.5mm lug-to-lug.

Timex's one-year warranty excludes the crystal, strap, case and battery.

The smallest genuinely good watch here. Sapphire, solar, 100m and 44.5mm across the lugs — if you have a small wrist and want to stop thinking about batteries, start here.

Light-powered, 100m and covered for five years, on an 18mm strap that takes any nylon or leather.

Mineral glass.

37mm, 18mm lugs, 100m, no battery, five years of cover. There is very little here to go wrong and almost nothing that will date.

A 38.4mm dress watch with a 44mm lug-to-lug and an in-house hacking automatic, with three years of warranty.

Domed mineral glass and 30m.

A 44mm lug-to-lug is genuinely small by modern standards, and this is the Bambino to buy if the 40.5mm versions never sat right. The domed mineral crystal is the compromise, and it is the one Orient never fixes on this line.