In an effort to gather funds for this venture, he designed and sold high-end watches via the internet under the name DeLorean Time.

Last year, Swiss watch makers generated about $3 billion from the sale of high-end mechanical watches; the figure has remained steady for several years.

Mrs Tay decided to go in to the market for high-end watches and in 1979 she launched The Hour Glass.

Greubel Forsey specializes in designing and manufacturing extremely high-end watches that are usually, but not exclusively, based on the Tourbillon escapement.

Manhattan jewelers report that sales of high-end watches have risen strikingly.

One 30-something chief executive of a toy manufacturer owns about 30 high-end watches.

The 2004 purchase of Michele Watch completed the cycle by offering a high-end Swiss watch with a designer flair.

But for high-end, elegant watches, jewellery, pocketknives and crystal, check out Bucherer, a family business that began in Lucerne in 1888.

I am always on the look-out for high-end watches.

There are two genres that your husband might like: high-end Swiss formal watches or geeky watches.