Chanel Boy.Friend Review: Not Your Boyfriend's Watch

Chanel's Boy.Friend is no ordinary boyfriend watch.

Chanel Boy.Friend Review

Chanel is a brand that is virtually synonymous with high fashion and luxury, and has long been a favorite of leading women and Hollywood A-class celebrities. After wardrobe essentials like the "Little Black Dress", the iconic Chanel No.5 perfume, and watches like the Chanel Premiere and J12, it was time to launch another product the world will never forget: the Chanel Boy.Friend watch.

The form of this Parisian-chic watch draws from both Chanel's first watch, the Premiere, and the still-classic Chanel No. 5 is clearly inspired by the bottle cap of her perfume.

So what makes this watch different from the Premiere? More importantly, what does it mean to write the word 'boyfriend' with a dot in the middle? Why was such a method chosen instead of making two words like 'Boy Friend' or separating them with a hyphen like 'boy-friend', or at least writing them without spaces and dots as every normal person would do? Why reinvent the wheel?

The theory, according to leading watch experts, is this campaign is designed to market the Chanel Boy.Friend watch as the kind of watch a young woman would borrow from her boyfriend after a night on the town. Maybe it was a way to secure a second date? The watch is larger compared to the feminine Premiere, indicating that it has a more masculine design than the Premiere and is therefore a "boyfriend's watch".

Naming aside, this watch is unquestionably a women's watch with its soft and feminine lines. The truth is that although women's watches are slowly getting bigger, the Chanel Boy.Friend is still very feminine in scale; It measures 28.5 x 37 mm in its largest form and goes down to 21.5 x 27.5 mm in its smallest form.

The Chanel Boy.Friend is a mechanical, hand-wound watch, but you can also find a quartz version. Rectangular case with chamfered corners; It is available in 18 carat White Gold, 18 carat Beige Gold (a lighter shade of rose gold) and stainless steel, with or without diamonds.

The crown of the Chanel Boyfriend watch is decorated with an onyx cabochon. There are models with black guilloche dials, as well as models with silver opaline guilloche dials. Some models have a date window at the 6 position, while some have a seconds subdial. Whichever you choose, these are elegant looking, timelessly stylish watches; It will look just as stylish even ten years from now.

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