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for at least eighty percent of my life, i'd never worn a watch. they seemed either clunky or childish, or inconvenient or too easy to misplace (i am in the habit of shedding every item of jewellery from my hands the moment i sit down to anything). i had dalliances with watches: there were a few short-lived, plastic, waterproof numbers as a child, and i committed for a full six months to a casio one that cost more to have resized than it did to buy. so when time2 got in touch with me about a watch review, i wasn't immediately convinced it was going to work out. i'd yet to find a watch i really, really liked, and had pretty much consigned myself to a lifetime of checking the time on my phone and - hang on, marc jacobs does watches?! this changed everything. a good perusal on the time2 site showed a massive selection of women's watches, and boy, were they cute. i chose a marc by marc jacobs watch, because it was classic yet not clunky, and discreet in terms of branding. it's not blingy or shouty, it's just a really sweet, bracelet-like piece that you can easily layer with other pieces of jewellery. i'd long read in magazines that a good watch, like a good white man's shirt was a "style staple" yadda yadda, but now i've actually seen good quality watches up close, i see what they mean. i feel a lot...classier with my watch on. and this particular one really is timeless. (pun not intended....)

shorts, c/o of Urban Outfitters.

top and blazer, Topshop.

XO necklace, c/o of farah mansor

i'd also really like to thank my friend tom (no, not the bin-bag dress one) for being kind enough to snap these pictures for me with his super-awesome camera and super-awesome photography skills. do you wear a watch? ps, farah is an emerging, just-graduated jewellery designer with some really cute and affordable pieces. check out her link above!