Colourful timepieces are seeing a resurgence and pink watches are catching on quickly. Located on an artist’s palette between red and white the shade has never been more popular as a watch decoration in recent years. This is due in part to recent technological and marketing advances such as ceramic straps and bezels.

In the late 19th century, the colour became most commonly associated as being cute and feminine. Nevertheless, it also has more manly characteristics, becoming the new standard for cricket balls in day/night matches and the traditional colour of financial and sporting newspapers.

Pink watches, A stylish icon

There are other uses for the colour in societies worldwide. In Catholicism, pink is seen as joyful . It is representative of Tuesdays in Thailand and is a personal colour choice of many of the citizens of that country born on that day, whether in the form of accessories such as pink watches or in clothing items such as shirts. With such a wide range of uses, it makes sense to have pink watches in your horological collection.