WATCH OUT! Wrist candy for Father’s Day

Some men love watches as much as cars. So with Father’s Day this Sunday, Richard Fitzpatrick looks at some coveted wrist candy

Nothing, it seems, says as much about a man’s station in life than the timepiece he keeps on his wrist. “Watches are a fashionable symbol, a status symbol,” says Tim Keane of Michel Jewellers in Cork. “They’re style. It’s like cavemen putting bones in their hair.”

Few accessories rival them. A sports car, for example, might be cool to have but it spends most its time parked outside. A watch is with a man always. It’s also the only piece of jewellery — unlike, say, the gold chains Italian men persist in wearing— that a man can get away with hanging from his body without being scoffed at in some quarters.