A Buying Guide to Watches from Fossil HK

Introduction

Fossil Group, Inc. is a global business conglomerate dealing with designing, developing and manufacturing of fashion watches and lifestyle accessories. It maintains a diverse portfolio of owned and licensed brands. It is one of the largest watch companies in the world. The company also has an extensive wholesale distribution network across 150 countries. The group’s own watch brands are Fossil, MICHELE, Misfit, Relic, Skagen and Zodiac. The licensed brands are Armani Exchange, Diesel, DKNY, Emporio Armani, Kate Spade New York, Michael Kors, PUMA and Tory Burch.

The Fossil HK watch brand offers a wide range of fashionable wristwatches from quartz, mechanical, Smart to Hybrid segments. These watches proudly show up American creativeness and originality. Fossil’s timepieces perfectly balance with every fashion and lifestyle. The brand offers ladies, gents and unisex models.

The brand creates timepieces for all types of fashion styles: bohemian, casual, chic, elegant, exotic, glamorous, preppy, punk, sporty and etc. The retail price range of Fossil HK watch collection is approximately HK $500 to HK $3,000.

Fossil Analogue quartz watches 

In the Analogue segment, Fossil proposes a broad selection of affordable men’s fashion quartz watches with various functionalities and style. Depending upon the model, the case size varies from 38mm to 50mm.

Fossil offers a large number of quartz-powered time-only wristwatches. The Minimalist 3H is a popular and modestly designed dress watch with an extra-large case and an easy to read dial. This massive 44mm diameter model is available with a classical small-seconds dial layout or the contemporary styled centre seconds hands. The Copeland series offers a slightly small time-only watch with a 42mm diameter case and a centre seconds hand. The brand also has a three-hand watch with a rectangular case: ARC 03. These Fossil watches for men are usually available in the price range of HK $900-1,000.

Many people prefer wristwatches with a date display, because of its practicality in our daily lives. For men, Fossil offers several quartz-powered three-hand with date timepieces from its Machine, FB-01 and Everett. Both Machine and Everett models display date at 6 o’clock whereas FB-01 has the same at 3 o’clock. Each of them costs about HK $1,000.

For women, the brand has included a great selection of “time-only” and “time with date” models. These stylish quartz watches are available from the brand’s collections like Copeland, Daisy, Carlie, Carlie Mini, Jacqueline, Jesse Gabby, Scarlette, FB-01, Neely, Stella and Virginia. These Fossil watches for women are available in the price range of HK $700-1,700. 

For chronograph lovers, the brand proposes several quartz models from its Bronson, Coachman, Dean, Everett, FB-01, Forrester, Garret, Grant, Machine, Minimalist, Nate, Neutra, Retro Pilot and Townsman collections. Depending upon the model, they highlight classical or sporty aesthetics and features. The average retail price range of men’s chronograph wristwatches is HK $1,000-1,300.

Multifunctional watches display useful additional indications like 24-hour, day, date, month, second-time zone and etc. For example, Fossil’s ARC-02 is a quartz multifunction watch with a 44mm diameter case. In addition to the three centre hands, this men’s timepiece spotlights three sub-dials for displaying 24-hour, day and date functions. ARC-02 has an approximate selling price of HK $1,000. The collections like Airlift, Bannon, Brox, INSCRIPTION and Wilkin offer men’s multifunction watches.

For women, the brand offers a number of multifunction watches from Jacqueline, Stella, Riley, Sadie and Izzy collections. The price of each of Fossil watch in HK ranges HK $900-1,700.

Fossil Solar watches

Fossil also creates solar-powered analogue wristwatches. A notable example is the Minimalist Solar, which features a 44m diameter case and a simple dial design with three centre hands. It also has a date window at 3 o’clock. It costs approximately HK with a 42mm case and 100m water resistance. The Jacqueline series offers a number of solar-powered Fossil watches for women.

Fossil Mechanical watches

In the mechanical segment, Fossil typically offers self-winding timepieces with open-worked or visible balance dial layouts. The collections that offer men’s automatic watches are Evanston, EVERETT, Grant, Inscription, FB-01, Fenmore, Privateer, Flynn, Neutra and Townsman. For women, the brand proposes sophisticated automatic models from Carlie, Vale, Rye, Weslee, Tailor and Stella collections.

Equipped with Japanese or Chinese movements, automatic Fossil watches usually feature with centre hour and minute hands. Depending upon the model, they come with a small-second dial or centre-second hand. Some models incorporate the power reserve display. The retail price range of Fossil automatic watches is something like HK $1,300-2,300.

Fossil Mechanical Twist watches

Fossil’s twist series combines both mechanical and quartz mechanisms. Its second’s hand is driven by a mechanical movement, with its parts visible through the open-worked dial. The hour, minute and other functions (day, date, etc.) are typically powered by a quartz movement. This patented technology has been used by Fossil in some watches. A notable example in the current lineup is the Bronson Mechanical Twist watch with a massive 50mm case. It typically contains a mechanically driven disc for indicating seconds and two quartz-movement powered hands for displaying the hour and minute.

Fossil Hybrid smartwatches

Fossil is a market leader in the fashion hybrid smart-watch segment. They combine analogue timekeeping functionality with modern wearable technology. The collections like Monroe, Neutra, Collider, FB-01, Sadie, Latitude, Carlie, Jacqueline, Machine and Charter offer a number of Fossil hybrid smartwatch models.

Many of these models are powered by Hybrid HR, the most advanced Fossil smartwatch hybrid technology as on date. In addition to the analogue time display, they offer various smart functions, including wellness tracking. These watches display wellness stats including heart rate, steps, calories and active minutes. They additionally provide notification features like Alarm Clock, App Alerts, Calendar Alerts, Email, Multiple Time Zones, Social Media and Text. They are provisioned with other functionalities like Control Your Music, Customizable Buttons and Personalise Your Dial.

The hybrid smartwatch in Fossil collection has a retail price range of HK $1,000-2,000.

Fossil smartwatches

The first Fossil smartwatch was introduced in 2015. Presently, the brand’s wearable portfolio segment includes four generations: Gen 4, Gen 5, Gen 5E and Gen 6. The most recent generation (Gen 6) was introduced in 2021. These wristwatches are equipped with Wear OS by Google™. They are compatible with Android™ and iOS smartphones.

Fossil’s smartwatches usually incorporate traditional round case designs based on some of their popular analogue watch collections. They feature touch-screen display with a multitude of smart functions, including wellness tracking and notifications. The latest generation models incorporate sensors like Accelerometer, Altimeter, Ambient Light, Compass, Gyroscope, Off-body IR, PPG Heart Rate and SPO2. They also support Bluetooth, GPS, NFC and WiFi technologies. They come with hundreds of pre-loaded apps for carrying out various activities fitness, payments, music, social, news and games.

The approximate retail price range of Fossil smartwatch collection is HK $1,200-2,000.

Summary

Fossil has been renowned worldwide for its extensive expertise in the manufacturing of analogue, digital, analogue-digital, hybrid-smart and touch-screen smartwatches. As one of the popular fashion watch brands in the international market, it offers a great selection of affordable timepieces for style-conscious customers. 

These wristwatches are available in various case sizes: from 38mm to 50mm in case of Fossil watches men and from 26mm to 42mm for women. Most of them are made of stainless steel. They are available with case finishes like silver, black, smoke, yellow-gold, rose-gold and two-tone. With these watches, Fossil provides matching color stainless steel bracelets or straps made of leather, fabric or silicone.

The brand has included ceramic and titanium watches in certain collections. Some of them are limited editions. These timepieces feature bracelets in the corresponding material.

Fossil also offers an excellent selection of dial colors, including neutral and vivid shades. Popular dial colors in the men’s segment are black, brown, silver and smoke. In the women’s category, frequently used tones are silver, rose gold, yellow gold, brown, black and blue.

Fossil watches are equipped with Japanese or Chinese movements. Most analogue watches are water-resistant up to 50 meters. Most FB series models are usually 100m water-resistant. Its hybrid and touch-screen smartwatches have 30m water resistance.