Presage Cocktail Time 'Negroni' 38.5mm
Seiko · £400
Nice, but provisional
The Cocktail Time dial is the reason this watch exists: a deep red lacquer that changes with the light and looks like several times the money. The thing to know before spending £400 is that it is covered in box-shaped Hardlex rather than sapphire, so it will mark where a sapphire crystal would not. Fifty metres of water resistance means splashes rather than swimming.
- For
- Someone who wants a dress watch that gets noticed and will keep it for occasions.
- Not for
- Anyone wanting one watch for everything, where Hardlex and 50m are both limits.
What we checked
- The crystal is box-shaped Hardlex rather than sapphire, and it is rated to 50m. Beaverbrooks
Marked provisional: the justification rests on 1 source(s); two independent ones is the bar. We publish it anyway and say so, rather than waiting for evidence that may never arrive.