Ladies Watches

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BEAUTIFUL and useful at the same time, Van Cleef & Arpel's Jour et Nuit (Day and Night) watch has a disc that makes a complete revolution every 24 hours, revealing a sun paved with yellow sapphires during the day, and a moon paved with diamonds for night-time hours.

Celebrating their 175th anniversary this year, Jaeger-LeCoultre introduces the first ever auto Reverso for the ladies, with a rotor sitting quite pretty in the centre of the dial. The larger dimensions of this Squadra Lady Duetto case help make this innovation possible, but these ladies' watches now also offer quick-change options for croco strap, stainless steel or rubber strap.

Glashutte Original would like to propose Nightshade, an automatic tourbillon watch which is framed by 344 baguette diamonds, and mounted on a galuchat (sting ray) strap.

And how about this ladies: An in-house automatic movement from JeanRichard, which powers this 38mm stainless steel Bressel watch with a little French whimsy. Three dials mark the time (at 12 o'clock), the date (three o'clock) and the power reserve (seven o'clock) on white mother of pearl. Our quite inadequate French suggests the pretty swirling sentence might mean 'I like the madness a little too much!' But tell us if we're wrong.

If you've enjoyed this month's Beijing Olympics, Omega can help you remember the occasion with their DeVille Co-axial chronograph model, featured here. The watch comes with a mother of pearl dial and tastefully set diamonds, including one on the crown.

For a special touch, it matches the colours of the hour markers with the five Olympic rings at the end of the second hand. On the other hand, if you're more the jet-setting shopper type - and who wouldn't like to be - Girard-Perregaux offers you a 2008 variation of their World Time classic in the form of the ww.tc 24 Hour Shopping watch, shown here.

It lists time zones in terms of your favourite shopping streets all over the world - how clever! Thank you GP, for including not only places like the Ginza in Tokyo and Fauborg Saint-Honore in Paris, but also Orchard Road here on our little red dot.