In a world teeming with large pieces, Hermès surprised us all in 2014 by turning the trend on its head and unveiling a new collection of miniature watches. Named after the street on which the swiss replica watches brand has long stood, Faubourg is a delicate, slim, understated and fabulously feminine little timepiece. This year it comes with a 19.55mm steel or rose gold case perfectly paired with a calfskin or alligator strap. The leather is cut from a single piece and available in a range of colours from classic to eye-popping. The pin buckle secures the strap to the wrist. The simple time display on the white lacquer dial is brought to life by a quartz movement. Two silver or gold baton-shape hour and minute hands swing through time beneath the dazzling gaze of a diamond at 12 o' clock and three hour markers.

"The Carven brand is a bit like a heritage site for French fashion," said the then French minister for Culture, Frédéric mitterrand, in 2010. The brand founded in 1945 by Carmen de Tommaso (1909-2015) joined forces with another leading Parisian name, the jeweller Poiray, to create the famous ma Première watch. The interchangeable double strap comes in black, beige and blue and bursts with a bouquet of replica watches uk five little embroidered flowers. Imbued with Carven' s talent, each bloom echoes the hue of the smooth calfskin braiding. Ivory, blue or black PVC petals surround a crystal carved like a diamond and held in place by bronze claws. The curvy petals contrast beautifully with the rectangular gadrooned case. The 27x22mm case comes in steel or steel and rose gold whilst the silver, striped grey or white mother-of-pearl dial effortlessly displays the hours and minutes.

Reminiscent of a fighter jet with its square cabin in grade 5 titanium transition metal popular in aeronautics and aerospace for its hardness, light weight and resistance to rust and high temperatures, the monopusher BR-X1 chronograph tourbillon is powered by a tag heuer replica watches wind calibre which provides a power reserve of up to 100 hours. The model designed by Bell & Ross showcases its mechanical heart beneath grey-tinted sapphire crystal. The so-called traditional hours and minutes appear in the centre tracked by two openwork luminescent hands. They glide over applied metallic hour markers and a white decal minute track whose graduations appear on the chapter ring. The chronograph function (seconds and minute counters at 2 and 10 on the dial respectively) is started, stopped and reset using the monopusher at 2 on the case side.

Founded in 1887 by Georges-Emile Eberhard, the watch manufacturer of the same name has stood the test of time, remaining discreet but ever present. The firm' s first watch equipped with a chronograph was produced in 1919, and then, in 1947, after a series of product launches and innovations, Eberhard & Co. designed the Extra-Fort model. Available in collectors models from the 1950s, it became the symbol of the swiss replica watches brand. Almost 70 years later, the three-handed model features a dial with vertical pinstripe lines, available in black, grey and silver. A blue hour ring offsets the graphic lines and brings out the metallic applique hour markers and Roman numerals. Two silver-coloured hands of the dauphine type show the hours and minutes; the seconds are also shown in the centre. The minute-circle is placed near the bezel, in black with blue Arabic numerals, silver or white, depending on the dial colour. The date is also shown in a metal-framed window at 6 o' clock.

1966 is an important date in the history of Girard-Perregaux. It' s the date when the super Gyromatic calibre with its high frequency first appeared (36,000 vibrations per hour). The milestone year was then used to name an understated and elegant watch collection. The La Chaux-de-Fonds brand has stepped outside its comfort zone and given one of its iconic watches, usually in rose or white gold, a replica watches. It has a mechanical self-winding GP 03300-0030 calibre fuelling a 46-hour power reserve. The silver lacquer dial only features the bare essentials: hours, minutes, seconds and date. The embellishment-free dial is adorned by bevelled metal indices interspersed by a subtle pearlescent minute track. Two rounded leaf-shape hands tick time down alongside a slim central seconds hand and the date display at 3 o' clock.

Heritage is "property that is or may be inherited" (Oxford dictionary). The sense of legacy integral to watchmaking, as watches are traditionally passed down from father to son, goes even deeper with montblanc whose history goes into all of its current collections. The latest model from the Heritage Spirit collection is a perpetual longines replica watches whose useful markers spread over the softly smoky sapphire crystal dial which subtly unveils the self-winding movement that brings it to life. Two gold dauphine-shape hour and minute hands in the centre tick along a slim white minute track and applied hour indices topped by a Roman XII. months and leap years appear at 12, the day at 9, the date at 3 and the moon phase at 6. The 39mm rose gold case houses the mB 29.15 calibre.