Collection: Timepieces

Timepieces have been at the heart of King Jewelers since 1912, and today our Nashville showroom and online store offer one of the more comprehensive watch selections in the region. We're an authorized retailer for over 30 luxury watch brands, including TUDOR, IWC Schaffhausen, Bell & Ross, alongside Hamilton, Longines, DOXA, Baume & Mercier, Oris, Hublot, Zenith, Mido, Seiko Luxe, Blancpain, Glashütte Original, and many more, spanning both men's and women's watches.

Prices range from a few hundred dollars for accessible everyday automatics up to six-figure collector-grade pieces with tourbillons, perpetual calendars, and other high complications. You'll find dive watches, dress watches, chronographs, GMTs, and everything in between, in a full range of case sizes and materials. We also carry a curated selection of premium pre-owned timepieces for buyers looking for a different price point or a discontinued model.

Beyond watches themselves, we carry accessories like watch rolls, watch winders, and travel cases, plus in-house repair, engraving, appraisal, and buying/trade-in services. Shop online with free shipping on qualifying U.S. orders over $500, or visit our Nashville showroom for hands-on guidance from our watch specialists.

A timepiece is one of the few accessories that gets worn every day for years, sometimes decades, so it's worth thinking through more than just looks. Purpose, movement, fit, materials, and complications all play a role in finding the right one.

Start With Purpose
Think about how the watch will actually fit into your life. A dress watch is slim, understated, and built to sit quietly under a cuff for formal or business settings. An everyday watch needs to work across casual and professional situations without feeling out of place either way. A sport or dive watch trades some elegance for durability and water resistance, built for an active lifestyle. Many people end up wanting more than one type over time, which is part of why building a small collection is common among watch enthusiasts.

Choose the Movement
The movement is the mechanism that actually powers the watch, and it shapes everything from maintenance to price:
- Automatic: Self-winds from the natural motion of your wrist, combining traditional mechanical craftsmanship with day-to-day convenience. No movement type is objectively better, but automatics are especially popular for their blend of heritage and low upkeep.
- Manual (mechanical): Wound by hand, often daily, with a smooth sweeping second hand that mechanical enthusiasts love. These reward a bit of ritual and are popular among collectors who enjoy the hands-on relationship with a watch.
- Quartz: Battery-powered, highly accurate, and low-maintenance, making it a practical and often more affordable option, especially for a first serious watch or a piece meant for daily wear and tear.
There's no hierarchy here, just preference and how you want to interact with the watch day to day.

Get the Size and Fit Right
- Case diameter is the most obvious size measurement, and today's watches generally run from around 33mm to 46mm. As a rough guide, 36-40mm suits smaller wrists, 39-42mm works for most average wrists, and 42mm and up leans toward larger wrists or a bolder, statement look. Women's watches often run smaller, commonly in the 24-36mm range, though there's plenty of overlap and this is really about proportion, not gender.
- Lug-to-lug distance (the length from the top to bottom of the case, including the lugs) matters as much as diameter. A watch with short, curved lugs can wear smaller than its diameter suggests, and the golden rule is that the lugs should never hang over the edge of your wrist.
- Case thickness affects how the watch sits under a cuff and how substantial it feels. A slim dress watch might be under 10mm thick, while a chunky dive watch can run 13-15mm or more.

Strap and bracelet choice changes the fit and feel too. Leather softens over time and suits dressier looks, metal bracelets are the most versatile and adjustable, and rubber or fabric straps are built for sport and daily durability.

The best approach if you're shopping online is to measure your wrist with a flexible tape or piece of string, and compare that against the case diameter and lug-to-lug measurements listed for any watch you're considering, ideally trying it on in person before committing.

Materials and Durability
- Crystal: Sapphire crystal resists scratches far better than mineral glass and is worth prioritizing on any watch you'll wear daily.
- Case material: Stainless steel is the most common and versatile choice. Titanium is lighter and just as durable. Ceramic resists scratching almost entirely. Gold, rose gold, and two-tone options lean more formal or ornamental.
- Water resistance: 30-50 meters covers daily splashes and handwashing, 100 meters is enough for swimming, and 200 meters or more is what you actually want for diving or serious water sports.

Style and Complications
Case shape affects perceived size and style just as much as diameter. Round cases dominate sport and everyday watches, while rectangular, cushion, or tonneau shapes tend to skew dressier or more vintage-inspired. Beyond the dial, think about which complications you'll actually use: a date window covers most daily needs, a chronograph adds stopwatch functionality, and a GMT or world timer is genuinely useful if you cross time zones often. Moon phase and tourbillon complications are less about utility and more about horological craftsmanship, appealing to people who appreciate the mechanics as much as the timekeeping.

A Few Practical Tips
Try a watch on in person when you can. Photos and spec sheets rarely capture how a case and bracelet actually move and sit on a wrist.
Consider the brand's reputation and service network. A mechanical watch will need servicing eventually, and an established brand with local support makes that far easier down the line.
Buy from an authorized retailer rather than a marketplace or reseller, particularly for luxury and Swiss watches, so you get a genuine manufacturer warranty and avoid any authenticity risk.
Set a rough budget before you start browsing. Solid everyday automatics and quartz watches are available well under $1,000, established Swiss and heritage brands typically run $1,000-$5,000, recognized luxury brands fall in the $5,000-$20,000 range, and high-complication or haute horlogerie pieces run from there into six figures.

Once you know your purpose, preferred movement, comfortable size range, and budget, the fastest way to actually find the right timepiece is to compare real, in-stock options across a wide range of brands and price points side by side, whether that's men's or women's watches, everyday pieces or serious collector's pieces, and ideally with the option to see it in person and get expert guidance before you decide.

King Jewelers is an authorized retailer for over 30 luxury watch brands spanning men's and women's collections.

Top Watch Brands:

TUDOR — Founded in 1926 by Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf, TUDOR set out to offer the reliability and quality of a Rolex at a more accessible price. Known for its tool-watch heritage with the French and British Navies, today TUDOR is best known for the Black Bay and Pelagos dive watch collections.

IWC Schaffhausen — Founded in 1868 by American watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones, IWC blends Swiss craftsmanship with an engineering-driven design philosophy. The brand is renowned for its Pilot's Watches, the nautical-inspired Portugieser collection, and pioneering use of materials like titanium and ceramic.

Bell & Ross — Founded in 1992 by Bruno Belamich and Carlos Rosillo, Bell & Ross is known for aviation and military-instrument-inspired design, most iconically the square-cased BR 01 and BR 03, built to resemble cockpit dashboard instruments.

Blancpain — Founded in 1735, Blancpain holds the title of the world's oldest registered watch brand. It's celebrated for the Fifty Fathoms, introduced in 1953 and widely credited as the first modern dive watch, and for the fact that it has never made a quartz watch.

Zenith — Home of the El Primero, introduced in 1969 as the world's first high-frequency automatic chronograph movement. Famously saved from destruction during the quartz crisis by a Zenith workshop manager who secretly hid the tooling, the El Primero later powered the Rolex Daytona for over a decade.

Hublot — Founded in 1980 by Carlo Crocco, Hublot pioneered pairing gold cases with natural rubber straps, an industry first. Under the Art of Fusion philosophy, the brand is best known today for its bold Big Bang collection and high-profile sports partnerships.

Roger Dubuis— Founded in 1995 by veteran Patek Philippe watchmaker Roger Dubuis, the Geneva-based manufacture specializes in mechanically complex, skeletonized timepieces, nearly all bearing the prestigious Geneva Seal. The Excalibur collection is its flagship line.

Glashütte Original — Rooted in German watchmaking dating back to 1845 in the Saxon town of Glashütte, the brand makes up to 95% of its components in-house, upholding a tradition of precision and craftsmanship that defines Made in Germany watchmaking.

Across our full timepiece collection, spanning men's and women's watches from more than 30 luxury brands, King Jewelers backs every new watch with the manufacturer's official warranty, plus manufacturer documentation provided at purchase. Our premium pre-owned timepieces carry an additional 1-year King Jewelers warranty covering internal mechanical defects. Whether you need watch battery replacement, movement servicing, water-resistance sealing, or custom engraving, our in-house watchmakers provide expert care for every timepiece we sell. We also offer a "Sell Your Timepiece" program for trading in or selling watches, plus expert appraisal services for insurance or resale value. All timepieces qualify for a 15-day return or exchange window when unworn and in original packaging.