The Mondaine Helvetica 1 Smartwatch feels absolutely amazing; the leather-straps has a suede-like texture to it making it feel great on the skin and the stainless-steel case has such a good weight to it your wrist won't feel like the watch is weighing you down. If you haven’t filled your space for an essential silver timepiece, this one is definitely worth a look. In this taxonomy, the Mondaine Helvetica Smart is an activity band, not a true competitor to the Apple Watch or TAG Heuer Carrera Connected.

In 1943, Swiss engineer, Hans Hilfiger, while working for the Swiss Railway Station decides to design a clock that will synchronize the departure time for all of the trains coming and leaving in Zurich’s main station. As with any algorithmic metric calculation, there's an element of trust that the device is counting in the realms of accuracy but, compared to both a Fitbit and a Garmin fitness tracker, we found the Mondaine pretty much on the money. In a world of fast fashion and hyper consumerism, navigating brand values, quality, style, and affordability can make ethical. Mondaine watches are inherently wearable and the MotionX tech packed inside the company’s first connected timepiece hasn’t altered that fact.The dial features the same primary index, which consists of hour numerals at 12, 3 and 9, skipping 6 for the date/progress sub-dial, long rectangles for the other hours and small squares for the individual minutes. Prior to founding Wareable, and subsequently The Ambient, he was the senior editor of MSN Tech and has written for a range of publications. The hours and long rectangles are in black, while the minutes are the same color as the dial surface, which in this instance is a matte silver. All thoughts, comments and musings are made of my own opinion and honest, personal experience with the products reviewed or mentioned.

To a watch guy, the design and construction of the Mondaine Helvetica is more important than the activity monitor technology that lurks inside.

Material of the case is Stainless Steel, which stands for a high quality of the item while the dial colour is White. This is recorded internally and transmitted on demand via Bluetooth to an app running on an iOS or Android smartphone. The mid-case is not a cylinder, but rather has a conical shape, first flaring up and out, and then sharply cutting back in, creating a ridge at the case’s widest point. It’s bowl shaped though, so it sits in the wrist, making the watch wear a bit thinner than it sounds. Since 1878, we have been helping couples across Norfolk, East Anglia and beyond, find the perfect engagement ring.