High time to think festive: Watch focus editor's comment

It doesn’t seem that odd for me to be writing about Christmas watches in July. After all, most of you have been inspecting the timepieces that you’d have on your shelves this festive season since Basel. And retailers that we’ve spoken to predict that this will be a big year for watches. In fact, some even go so far as to predict a bumper year for watches.

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Fast Facts on
Wedding rings

  • 860 AD:The year Christians started using rings in marriage ceremonies.
  • 4th:The finger the ring is placed on.
  • 2,200BC:The year of the oldest recorded exchange of wedding rings in ancient Egypt.
  • 1854:The year in which the manufacture of 15ct, 12ct and 9ct became legal.

Photo from William Cheshire