The Watchlist: up to £500

The offshoot of Raymond Weil is still only two years old, but already it's proved it can punch with the heavyweights. This brown and orange 42mm quartz chrono is a proper looker.

£460; 88rdr.com

The first Casio Edifice with built-in Bluetooth technology is the Red Bull F1 Team's watch of choice, probably because it automatically updates local time in 300 cities via a connection with their smartphones as they trot the globe.

£300; edifice-watches.co.uk

New York-based Autodromo takes its design cues from vintage racing chronographs of the Sixties and Seventies (see p27). This retro beauty has a Seiko meca-quartz hybrid movement, making the central seconds hand sweep, not tick.

£492; pageandcooper.com

To prove this watch's strength, Victorinox put it through a 130 tests, including driving over it in a 64-tonne tank, dousing it in insecticide and putting it through a washing-machine cycle (see p51). The rubber and silicon mount is removable.

£329; victorinoxwatches.com

This analogue chronograph is a digital-age marvel. Its radio-controlled atomic clock synchronisation keeps time in 26 time zones and is accurate to one second every 20 million years.

£429; citizenwatch.com

Known for its bulky sports watches, TW Steel has trimmed down for its new Slim Line collection. This 45mm steel rose gold PVD-coated version has a quartz movement and a date window.

£295; twsteel.com