Give your wrists some style

By Thrillist

Published on 10/7/2008 at 4:00 AM

Given the current crisis, it doesn't make sense to spend too much on a watch, mostly because there are far fewer places you have to show up on time to. Get slick timepieces for less, from TOKYObay

Just out with fresh faces, Bay says they take the "best watch designs of the classic eras and give them a modern edge" -- with results starting at $70 and topping out at $150, about the price of those dinners you'll still reflexively attempt to expense. Among the best of the new

  • With a skinny face that clocks time via rotating discs attached to a soft, perforated-leather band, the 60s-retro "Neptune" looks like the spawn of a tie clip and a football. So you know it's sexy.
  • Banded by a distressed, green-leather cuff, this watch's analog display is shaped like a horizontal key, and features an oversized "9" in the part of the key that you totally never use to do coke.
  • Stainless-steel banded, "Static" comes in four face colorways (red, green, black, brown), and sports a disc/analog display shaped like a never-blinking eye. Quit staring at it. You can't win.

The priciest model's the Halloweenish (black-faced, orange-numbered) "Agent", possibly priced higher due to its genuine buffalo-leather strap -- offensive to PETA, but not to anyone who only freaks out about bulls and bears.