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Watches. Fine, elegant watches. A watch should match both the occaision and ones attire.
A sport watch should be sturdy with a metal braclet to handle shock and water, mine is an Omega Seamaster Professional in titanium and rose gold since I am a SCUBA diver.
A casual watch for wear with khaki's, also a good choice for daily wear to the office with business casual. Something along the lines of a Omega Speedmaster, Concord Impresario, or IWC Doppelchronograph. I listed all chronographs since that is what I happen to prefer. If it has a leather strap rather than a braclet then accomodations must be made for black leather and brown leather. The watch strap color should match the belt and shoes. Generally a brown strap on a yellow or rose gold watch while a black strap on a stainless or white gold watch.
For wear with formal attire one wears a dress watch with the appropriate brown or black leather strap, though now the black strap might be worn on a platinum watch. Simple dress watches by Vacheron Constantin, Patek Phillipe, Breguet(especially the Classique series), or IWC are my personal favorites. Tourbillon movement, perpetual calander, and minute repeaters are certainly fine as a dress watch and will attract attention, but few are willing to invest money equal to the price of a high end European sedan to the price of a large home into a time piece.
A fine watch does not need jewels to make it valuable, as you see Rolex do to get the value above $20k. Put money into quality and workmanship, not gaudiness. The watch and you will look silly. The brother of the Sultan of Brunei sold his watch. It was a Breguet with a tourbillon movement, a beautiful classic timepiece, which goes for about $150,000. He had so much gold and jewels attached to it that his was selling for $400,000. Wear a watch like that in the business world and you will get laughed at, gross conspicuous consumption. Wear something like that and you are viewed as a showoff who is trying to prove something. A person with little self-respect or an inferiority complex.
I don't even like wearing a ring, just a watch.
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