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Fall Watches For Those Who Celebrate Halloween Every Day
For some folks, the spooky season begins and ends on October 31st. For others, it starts on October 1st and lasts until the 31st – after which time it promptly becomes Christmas. For others, however, spooky season is a yearly celebration, where the Halloween aesthetic lasts beyond the costumes and candy of October. For those with a spooky sensibility, Bay Street Bull has compiled a list of spooky timepieces that can be dressed down for casual wear or dressed up for those who like to keep it spooky year long. There are fall watches for the goth in all of us. Especially since manufacturers have made big advances in finishes such as ceramics and carbon.
Here’s a look at five basic black fall watches that will haunt your dreams.
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THE DARK ARTS
To paraphrase Spinal Tap, there is none more black than the H. Moser & Cie. Streamliner Chronograph Flyback Automatic Blacker than Black. This mysterious, one-off timepiece is coated in Vantablack— a pigment with a total hemispherical reflectance below 1.5% in the visible spectrum. Or, in lay terms, now you see it, now you don’t. Price not available.
SKELETON SCENE
The rounded shape and super thin silhouette lend the 9.7mm Rado True Square a stealthy quality. Rado has been at the forefront of scratch-resistant ceramic watches since the 1960s and keeps on innovating with this high-tech injected black ceramic bracelet and case which frames for an intricately skeletonized dial allowing full view of the 80-hour reserve automatic movement. $3,100
PHANTOM MENACE
Black is not only the emblematic colour of emo, but it’s also the signature shade of the House of Chanel. This stainless steel, 38mm J12 Phantom Watch is dressed in a ceramic material, lending it a radiant and otherworldly finish. $9,600
CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
The Tudor Black Bay Ceramic is unique in that it is not only instantly recognizable as being a dive watch despite not having a speck of colour on it (save for a few spots of lume). A mix of matte and shiny charcoal finishes makes it legible. Divers can look a little too retro, and the Black Bay’s monotone surfaces stand out for their modernity. $5,660.
KNIGHT RIDER
Brands are embracing materials like ceramic because they are durable and stealthy. The Omega Speedmaster Dark Side Of The Moon Co-Axial Chronometer Chronograph is nicknamed “The Black Black” because of its clever mix of jet finishes such as its 44.25 mm polished and brushed black ceramic casebody, a matt black ceramic dial, lacquered tachymeter scale, coated nylon fabric strap, and Moonwatch-style hands and applied indexes coated with black Super-LumiNova.
