It's Practical
Watches today not only tell time, but they can tell you the day, date and time in other time zones, remind you of an appointment, wake you up and monitor your heartbeat.

It's Fashionable
Watch styles reflect and define the times, from sports chronographs to ultra-thin dress styles. A watch is an important accessory.

It's Prestigious
Some watches carry the grace and tradition of names recognized around the world as signifying the highest elegance in jewelry and timepieces.

It's Artistic
Fine watches are designed by artisans and craftspeople who fashion case, bracelet, dial and sometimes gems into not just a functional timepiece, but a work of art.

It's a Potential Heirloom
Your watch can be an investment in beauty and value. Certain gold and diamond watches, over time, even increase in value. Witness the prices some prestige timepieces fetch at famous auction houses. And, it is a lovely remembrance of a loved one.

It's Priced to Fit Your Pocketbook
Whatever your price range, whatever your need, there's a watch for you. If you enjoy changing your watch to fit your activity, fashionable less-expensive yet highly accurate watches are available from your jeweler in a variety of styles and price ranges. If you’re looking for something simple and inexpensive or if you desire the most extravagantly designed, precious metal watch encrusted with gemstones, Medawar Jewelers has the watch for you.

Mechanicals
Mechanicals are the traditional "wind-up" watches. They work because of a mainspring inside the watch that the wearer winds by turning the crown on the side of the watch. The spring gradually unwinds and turns tiny interlocking wheels, which move the watch hands to measure seconds, minutes and hours.

Automatic
Automatic or self-winding watches wind themselves as the wearer moves their wrist. The wearer's arm actions cause a weight behind the movement to rotate, winding the mainspring. They can also be wound manually.

Quartz
Quartz watches are powered by batteries rather than a mechanical spring. The batteries send electronic impulses through a small bar of synthetic quartz crystal, which vibrates more than 32,000 times per second. Those vibrations are channeled through a series of gears that result in one impulse per second.

Analog Vs. Digital
The terms “analog” and “digital” refer to the way time is displayed on the dial. Analog simply refers to a watch with traditional time-telling hands. Quartz analogs are watches in which the hands are moved by the electronic impulses passing from the battery through the quartz crystal to a step motor that moves the hands. Digital watches display the time with digits – numbers -instead of hands. The numerals are created by either light-emitting diodes (LED) or liquid crystal displays (LCD). Quartz watches are generally more accurate than mechanical watches, for two reasons. One, mechanical watches have many moving parts. That means more friction and less accuracy as the parts interact. Digitals have no moving parts. Two, the quartz crystal's constant and amazingly frequent vibrations per second enable watches to measure the second with unprecedented accuracy. A quartz watch should function properly for years with a battery life of one to up to five years.

Special Features
Special feature watches perform a variety of tasks. Besides telling the hours, minutes and seconds, many watches reveal the month, day and year. Some also give the phases of the moon or the time in other countries or time zones.

Chronographs
Chronograph watches measure small fractions of a second. Some are used to calculate speeds, distances and altitudes. There are specialized watches for astronauts, pilots, parachutists and skin divers-even timepieces that meet the special needs of blind persons. Also, most fine watches today are specially made to resist water, dust, wind, shock and magnetic fields.