Three watches to look out for in 2017, with George Clooney’s approval

The past few weeks, to quote Homer (Simpson, not the Greek dude), have been filled with terrifying lows, dizzying highs and a few creamy middles. The lows have been Arsenal’s appal­ling start to the season, and falling over in public then trying to do that thing where you pretend like you meant to break into a run instead but not quite pulling it off. The highs include the return of season four of BoJack Horseman (I cannot recommend this enough) and the creamy middles have been the hours and hours I’ve spent on the internet looking at the 2017 watches announced earlier in the year that are now, finally, hitting the shops.

Some might say that’s a lot of wasted hours, but I would say pish and posh, as first, you don’t know how empty my life is and second, what a bountiful harvest of great watches are coming our way!

One of the gems that’s available right now is the new Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra (top), which was not-so-subtly sported by a certain handsome cad named George Clooney at the recent Venice Film Festival. With a face like Clooney’s you can sell any­thing but, in this instance, the watch is the real looker and there’s lots of nice design updates here that are not immediately obvious.