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Timex's Cavatina Luxe is a 22mm oval that sizes itself, from US$219
Three Cavatina Luxe references from US$219, all quartz, all on a self-adjusting bracelet, with mother-of-pearl, black enamel or malachite dials in a 22mm oval case.
Hen & Mills Editorial · 2 min read · 12 August 2026
Two metallic markers, one at twelve and one at six, and that is the dial finished. No numerals, no minute track, no date. The case is 22mm wide, so there was never room for anything else.
That case belongs to the Cavatina Luxe, which Timex put on sale on 11 August in three references. The TW2Y86000 is steel with a mother-of-pearl dial at US$219, the TW2Y86200 is gold tone with black enamel at US$229, and the TW2Y86100 is gold tone with malachite at US$269. After a decade of everyone arguing about whether 40mm is too big, 22mm takes a second to picture.
An oval with the bracelet growing straight out of it
The shape does the work here. The dial is a tall oval, and the bracelet comes off the top and bottom with no lugs to speak of, so what you see is a bracelet with a watch set into the middle of it. Timex calls the Cavatina jewellery-inspired, and for once the marketing word is doing an honest job.
The crystal is domed mineral rather than sapphire. Mineral scratches more easily than sapphire and takes knocks better, and on a small dress watch that is never going near a doorframe, that is a fair corner to cut at this money.
Malachite, mother-of-pearl, black enamel
The green one is the pick. Malachite is a real stone, banded and swirled, and no two dials come out the same, which is a lot of character for a US$269 quartz watch. The mother-of-pearl on the steel version pulls the same trick fifty dollars cheaper, paler and cooler about it. And the black enamel is the sleeper: glossy, plain, and the easiest of the three to wear with whatever is already in the wardrobe.
Sizing it without a screwdriver
The links are curved and self-adjustable, so you size the bracelet by hand instead of pushing pins out or handing a jeweller twenty dollars to do it for you. Sounds like nothing until you count the small watches sitting unworn in drawers because nobody got round to taking two links out.
Inside is a quartz movement, which is the right answer. An automatic in a 22mm case means a tiny movement, a thicker case and a worse watch.
No Australian store, so no local price
Small watches have been quietly coming back for a few years, and most of the interesting little ones arrive from brands asking four figures. Timex has three of them between US$219 and US$269, on a bracelet that sizes itself, in stone and mother-of-pearl.
There is no Australian Timex store and no local price, which leaves buying from the US site or waiting for a distributor to pick them up. The malachite is the one to watch for.
