Hugo Boss Watches

Hugo Boss makes the most office-appropriate watch in this store.

That sounds like faint praise and is not meant as any. Most watches are designed to be noticed. A Boss is designed to complete a look without competing with it: restrained dials, sober colours, cases that slide under a cuff and stay there.

If you have just started a role where how you present yourself carries weight, this is the category to look at. It reads as considered rather than expensive, which is usually the right signal early in a career.

Sizes run 40mm to 44mm across most of the range. Come and try one before deciding, because 44mm looks very different on paper than on a 16cm wrist.