These timepieces shake off their clichéd 1980s associations.
It might seem hard to bring the two-tone watch back into fashion when its most famous model is Patrick Bateman, the titular “American Psycho” of Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel. In Mary Harron’s darkly comic 2000 film adaptation, the serial killer and investment banker, played by Christian Bale, treasures and flaunts his dual metal timepiece — another detail in the twisted satirical portrayal of 1980s yuppie culture. The film perhaps clinched the association between the two-tone wristwatch and the decadence and materialism of the era — Richard Gere also wore one to play a corporate raider in “Pretty Woman” (1990) — but
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