When I usually start babbling about watches to my fiancee and very soon to be wife she often turns a deaf ear. In her opinion and the opinions of past lady-friends alike, the topic of big ugly steel diving watches and watch movements is unsuitable for proper dinner conversation.

In the opinion of your humble presenter, however, this is a watch that no woman can ignore:

Chopard Happy Fish – 28/8347/8-402 Ladies Watch

You may be thinking that this is just one of those fancy wrist top aquariums all the kids are talking about, but it is actually quite a unique watch. This Chopard “Happy Fish” is pretty much a ladies diving watch full with a rubber strap, diver bezel, illuminated night markers, and it can probably handle the backyard pool just fine (not that it matters anyway).  In short, it has all the stuff you’d find on a diver’s watch, but ups the ante on design.

What makes this watch so interesting to me at least is that outside of the colorful strap, unheard of lugs, nipple-like crown, and childlike demeanor, is that it has 3 jeweled fish floating inside the watch case.  So if you are a fan of fish, as I claim to be, you can really dig it.  If it were socially acceptable for men to wear watches such as these your humble presenter would gladly take the plunge but I’m afraid this one is ladies only!

What I appreciate about Chopard is that they really do stray from convention with their watch collections, and they are one of very few companies in the otherwise serious and pretentious luxury watch world that would come out with a watch that is essentially like a toy.

But if you think about it, what are luxury watches if not expensive toys?  Toys are items that give us pleasure, they are objects that are unnecessary and made for our enjoyment.  Why spend your extra thousands on something that helps you blend into a crowd when you can buy a Chopard Happy Fish?

Bottom line is that if you are a woman with some cash to burn this is worth a look.  As a man I don’t know if I have any qualification to say that statement, or if my taste in womens’ watches causes eyebrows to raise, but I can tell you that if I were a woman, this is what I’d get!