Colorful Patchwork Face Elastic Watch by Ernest

The print runs straight from the dial onto the strap

Look at the watch from above, and the pattern forms a single band across the wrist. Each link carries its own fragment: a slice of green, a square of leopard print, a stretch of navy dotted with white, a flash of red. The links sit edge to edge and are all the same width, so the colour never breaks as it travels round to the underside of your wrist.

Two printed faces share the dial

Your eye lands on the green face first, its eye ringed with ochre. The blue profile answers back across the dial, with an almond-shaped eye outlined in red. Behind them, the background shifts from leopard print to hatched violet, then to a patch of navy scattered with dots.

Reading the time over the green and blue faces

All twelve numerals are printed in black and outlined in white, so they stand out against whatever colour sits underneath. They tilt slightly, the way numbers do in a sketch. There are just two silver-tone hands and nothing else, which stops the dial getting any busier than it already is.

An Ernest elastic watch, part by part

What to wear this printed watch with

Let the watch be the loud bit and keep everything else quiet: a plain jumper, a white shirt, indigo denim. Short sleeves suit it best, since the whole strap stays in view. You'll find the other printed designs in the rest of the elastic watch range. And if this width feels like too much on a small wrist, browse the wider line-up of watch shapes for women instead.