Carnival Roman Day-Date Quartz Watch, Black Leather

The one quartz piece in a shipment of twenty-five automatics. Sometimes you just want it to be right when you pick it up.

Why It Stands Out

• Quartz, so it keeps time to the second and never needs winding or resetting
• Full Roman numeral dial with an outer minute track
• Day and date windows together at 3
• Blued hands and a polished coin-edge crown
• Slimmest case in the batch, because there is no rotor to make room for

Watch Details

• Model: I&W Carnival IW.696G
• Movement: Quartz
• Dial: Roman numerals, blued hands, day and date at 3
• Case material: Stainless steel
• Strap: Black leather
• Case diameter, thickness and water resistance: confirming with the supplier

Fit and Wear

A quartz dress watch is the one you grab when you have four minutes and a jacket. No winding, no setting, no drift. It is thinner than every automatic here, so it disappears under a cuff. Leather strap, standard lugs, easy to change from our Straps collection.

Colin's Take

I do not apologise for quartz. Automatics are more interesting to own and worse at telling time. If you have one watch that has to be dead accurate on a morning you are already late, it should be this one. It is also the cheapest thing in this order, which makes it the easiest yes.