Cheap Alain Miller watch for men blue dial

Plenty of quartz watches tell the time. This Alain Miller adds a blue dial against a gold-tone case and bracelet, a date window and hands that glow in the dark, and for a watch that is inexpensive it carries more detail than you might expect. The case is a round 36.5 mm.

A dial you can read at a glance

The blue background keeps the dial clear, and baton-style hour markers make each hour easy to pick out. The hands are coated with a luminescent material, so once they have been charged by light they stay readable when the room goes dark. The date sits in a small window on the dial.

Quartz movement

Inside is an SL28 quartz movement, which keeps the time accurate without any winding or fuss. When the battery eventually weakens, take the watch to a watchmaker, who can swap it and check the seals while the case is open.

Bracelet you can adjust yourself

The gold-tone metal bracelet is made of links and is 20 mm wide, with a total length of 23.5 cm. To fit it to your wrist, remove one or more links and keep the spare ones safe. If you have not done it before, our watch size guide walks you through it.

Case and glass

The case is gold-tone metal, 10.5 mm thick, with a mineral glass over the dial. At 36.5 mm across it stays discreet and suits slimmer wrists, and the whole watch weighs 67 g.

Day to day, it is the kind of watch you can wear with a shirt or with a plain jumper and jeans, where the blue dial and gold-tone finish give your outfit a bit of character without shouting about it.