Fun, Affordable Watches

No matter what style of watch you prefer – sporty, dressy, vintage or casual – you will find a Croton watch that matches your taste and your budget.

For more than 130 years, Croton has sought to capture the imagination of its customers with innovative time pieces. Croton watches have remained popular, with sales reaching up to 1 million a year – many drawn perhaps by the lifetime warranty offered on its movements.

Men’s watches

A classic Croton men’s watch is the Dragon Stainless Steel rubber strap watch. It comes in your choice of a black or silver-tone dial. At the base of the round dial is an intricate metalwork dragon design – the wings of which encircle the silver-tone stainless steel bezel. It’s a silver dragon on the black dial and a mesmerizing silver dragon on the silver-tone dial. You will find silver-tone Arabic numerals at the top of the dial – at 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00. The dragon takes up the bottom of the dial, along with a date window at 6:00. Driving the luminous silver-tone hour and minute hands – as well as a red second hand – is a Japanese Miyota 2115 Quartz movement. The case includes a coin-edged push and pull crown.

Securing this beauty to your wrist is a black rubber strap that measures 8½ inches by 20mm wide at the last hole and closes with a buckle. Not only is this a great looking, masculine watch, it is also water resistant up to 100 feet.

For something a little more “out there,” check out the Croton Men’s Daredevil Dual-Time leather strap watch. The dial features a vampire-inspired face at the top of the dial, complete with red Czech crystal eye accents. The vampire, set in a black circle, stands out on the dial. The watch hands actually sweep around the vampire’s face.
This imaginative piece comes in three color combinations:
• A black alligator strap, silver-tone bezel and red dial.
• The blue alligator strap is just a tad more reserved, with a blue dial and the vampire in the same location.
• The brown alligator strap holds a brown dial, set off by a bronze stainless steel case.

A Japanese 8215 Miyota Automatic movement powers the metallic blue hands; a Japanese 5R21 Miyota Quartz movement drives a second dial set at 6:00. There is a date window between 3:00 and 4:00. The genuine alligator strap attaches with a dual deployant clasp and fits up to an 8½-inch wrist. It measures 9½ inches long and 22mm in width. It, too, is water resistant up to 100 feet.

For an eye-catching watch, check out the men's Circuit Breaker Diamond Accented stainless steel strap watch. One look at this dial is a look into the future. It comes in your choice of gold-or silver-tone cases. The round case features a floating inner dial and a see-through outer dial. On the face are diamonds at all hour positions. This watch is much more about precision than bling, powered by a Swiss K62-132 Quartz movement that drives the hour and minute hands. Depending on the metal tone you select, you will get a brown embossed lizard strap with the gold-tone case and a black strap with the silver-tone case. The buckle strap measures 9 inches long by 20mm wide. It is water resistant to 100 feet.

For something sportier, you might like Croton’s Sport Black Ionic Plated stainless steel bracelet watch. It’s all black from the bracelet strap to the round black ionic plated stainless steel case – unless you go for a colorful dial. Yes, you can get a black dial, but the dial also comes in green, blue or red. The dial features a date window at 3:00, silver-tone luminous Arabic numerals at 6:00 and 12:00 and luminous index markers at the remaining hour positions. At 9:00, you’ll find a 24-hour scale sub-dial. Surrounding the case is a unidirectional rotating bezel with chapter markers at intervals of five. This beauty also features an intriguing exhibition case that shows the automatic movement. The bracelet is 7 inches long by 22mm wide. It, too, is water resistant to 100 feet.

For women

Croton did not forget about women when designing its watches. Check out the Croton Women's Xanthian Collection Ceramic Watch and Bracelet Set, which comes in black, pink and white. The stainless steel case is a fashionable rectangular shape with a mineral crystal and push/pull crown. Look closer and there is a mother-of-pearl dial and Austrian crystal index markers at all hour positions. It is driven by a Japanese Miyota 5Y30 Quartz movement. The watch’s ceramic and stainless steel bracelet and matching bracelet both utilize a foldover clasp.

The coordinating ceramic bracelet measures 7¼ inches by 10mm. It, like the men’s watches, is water resistant up to 100 feet.

If you are looking for a watch that breaks the run-of-the-mill mold – at a price you can afford – you must check out Croton watches.