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eBay suggests anywhere between £20-£300 depending on condition and working etc ?
In an attempt to reach peak STW I now have an mij Seiko 5 from creation 🙂 not crazy expensive but I like it, for someone with very slim wrists it works well.
Mrs. S treated me to one of these for xmas.
She's ace.
It's a lovely looking watch and really comfortable.
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Some lovely things on this thread chaps.
If one had a budget of 6.5k and wanted a new watch, where would you learned lot be looking ?
Bloody hell lowey - this thread will run for ages now with your query!
What style of watch do you like?
This IWC Portuguese chronograph is about £6.5k.
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It's a bit predictable maybe, but for the that money a used Rolex Milgauss with enough money over to get yourself a half decent new bike.
If one had a budget of 6.5k and wanted a new watch, where would you learned lot be looking ?
As I posted above, I would still be
I’d go with a Seiko SKX007 (cheaper version with rubber band instead of the ss bracelet one)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seiko-Analogue-Quartz-Watch-Rubber/dp/B000B5MI3Q/
then replace the rubber band with one of these which is so much more better than the original ss bracelet that comes with the watch
https://www.amazon.co.uk/22-Metal-Band-SS221803b019-Watch/dp/B00KGPVO90/
£275 all in, leaving £25 for a Nato strap or similar to swap things uo a bit now and then.
and use the other £6.2k for something else.
£6.5k. Grand Seiko Snowflake, with a couple do quid spare to buy a really nice blue leather strap.
Or if you’re feeling a little more of a classic, a Rolex Sub.
Personally, if Rolex was the preferred option I’d save an extra £1k and get a GMT II in Pepsi colours.
I did look at the GMT 11 but didnt really get on with the colour scheme.
The sub is lovely though.
Also looking at a Breitling Chronomat 44 but I have ladies wrists so it might be too big. Will try them on.
The Omega's are lovely things also.
Trip to the Watchshop in order I think.
If one had a budget of 6.5k and wanted a new watch, where would you learned lot be looking ?
Possibly a Tudor Pelagos, like this one:
But, to be perfectly honest I’d more likely go for a top-end Seiko Tuna MarineMaster 1000, and the Heim I posted up above.
Assuming you're buying something to wear, for £6.5k I'd recommend going into a jewellers and trying stuff on. That way you'll get something that looks and feels right on you wrist and you're happy with. If you don't find something you like in the first shop move on to the second one.
Indeed, enjoy the experience too, let them ply you with a drink and admire a few watches.
When spending that money, it's worth deciding, do you care what is value will be in a year or 10? Some brands hold their value better than others.
Any pocket watches out there? I've a silver half Hunter, it's nothing super, just worn very occasionally for a bit of fun on a silver double Albert with fob and a silver sovereign holder on the other end. No sovereigns in it....20 pences fit though. I'd like something similar in gold but the cost is so much more.
Any pocket watches out there?
My mate has one he wears on his wrist. No, I'm not kidding. It was his fathers and he wears it on a leather strap that has a kind of pocket made for it that it sits in so it can be used as a (very large) wrist watch.
Yes, it looks as daft as it sounds.
Hamtun watches up n coming H2 Ti diver looks pretty
https://hamtun.co/blogs/news/this-is-the-h2-first-photos-of-our-new-automatic-titanium-dive-watch
Lowry, I have a few in that price range. Rolex explorer II is a nice watch and in that price range if you wanted Rolex.
Recently picked up a Breitling Super Oceon Heritage, personal preference but I’d say it’s better looking than my Rolex.
I’d also look at Panerai, the below is slightly over budget but worth saving the extra for....(Its my next watch)
https://www.watches-of-switzerland.co.uk/Panerai-Luminor-1950-3-Days-GMT/p/17650353/
I bought a 'Christopher Ward C5 Malvern MkII' from Ebay earlier this year. This is the only watch i own.
I prefer dress watches rather than the more complicated designs.
Thoughts on Invicta? Quite like this.
When I was looking for a watch for my 40th I noted that people got hooked on watch collecting and on forums talked of their OWN (one watch nirvana) as if it was the ultimate watch that would break them from their habit.
OWNs were Panerais, Rolex Subs, etc.
One of the cheapest OWN was the Omega Speedy so I went to try one on, but the misses didn't like it.
The shop also had a (tag) Heuer carrera reissue which I liked but wasn't big enough for the misses :
so she got me to try on the modern version, but I wasn't going to buy that as the movement wasn't much good.
Luckily they had a moonphase speedy which looked similar, was the same size as the Tag Carrera, and had a decent movement (the same as the reissue), so I got that :
and the OWN story must have been correct as I am not fussed about any other watch, except maybe an old Seamaster 300 :
That old seamaster is lovely!
I tend to think if you take your time you'll find the watch for you. I spent a year, maybe more deciding on my PO. it was for my 40th. I'd tried on Subs, seamasters, breitlings, IWC pilots....for ages I thought I wanted a navitimer but decided too busy and they wear large (I've small wrists) the sub at 40mm looked a good fit and I thought i had settled on that for several months, but then I read the George Daniels Obit and read about the co-axial escapement...and went looking at Omega again. chose the PO and waited....think I must have left it 9 or 10 months before buying it, to be sure I had found the right one this time! After all this research I find watches interest me now and I admire them, but I don't really lust after any and 6 years on since getting my PO I still wear it daily and love it to bits. I could enjoy another watch...for a 50th or a wedding anniversary or such, but I don't lust after another.
Had a punt around the Rolex shops yesterday. Your looking at 12 months wait for a Sub in black and a 2 year wait in green.
Building in exclusivity ?
Rolex marketing, they could make as many Submariners as they wanted.
Have Breitling Transocean on mesh bracelet and Omega DeVille on croc strap.
Both plain and simple.
Lowey - re your £6.5k budget....new or pre-owned? If pre-owned I would be looking at Ian Blowers and Austin Kaye; my preference would be one of the Omega museum range or possibly a Panerai.
They make 2000 watches per week at Rolex, the waiting list is driven by them to create exclusivity. New Daytonas are £10k more or less, anything up to £20k for a 'new' second hand one.
Rolex marketing, they could make as many Submariners as they wanted
Yep. When yours is the most in-demand brand, make less not more to maintain exclusivity.
And then hike up the prices year on year.
@lowey - a stainless steel Rolex sports watch will always be a good choice from a value retention perspective. For me, I only really like the Explorer (more so now they fixed the hands issue) but not enough to buy one.
You do definitely need to spend some time looking and deciding what’s right for you. And be mindful that it’s easy to be drawn by the big brands with big marketing budgets. And beware the complete lunacy of watch forums - a spat on one of those makes a politics discussion on here look like the proverbial kindergarten..!
Enjoy.
PS have a look at the watch forum on Pistonheads.
It isn’t too crazy and there’s a wide variety represented from watches costing in the £ hundreds to a guy asking for help to spend £40k....
They also recommend a particular dealer: Dom Hackett (based in Hatton Garden IIRC) who can generally get watches at a decent price.
And then hike up the prices year on year.
Yep, Rolex have done that very well. Bought my first Submariner in 1989 and it cost £710 new. Bought a couple after that through the years for around £1000 used and gave up wearing watches about 10 years ago and coming back and looking at today's submariner prices I can't believe how much they cost. Saying that, I always sold mine for more than I paid so the price increases don't seem so bad then.
N+1 strikes again. About to click buy on the below, may swap out the bracelet for a leather strap.
I have the Presage with the ice blue face on patent leather. They are beautiful watches.
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Actually Rolex make 850,000 + watches a year! It’s a factory made mass produced product.
Although I understand the intricacy of those Seiko Prestige, somehow I'm not attracted to them - individual taste is a bizarre thing...
Lowey where is that? If get your name down for the Hulk (green sub). And make 5+ k in 2 years time. As I said the other day I went into WoS on regent Street and they would take my name for a black sub, for the Hulk they would also but said ' your wont get though'. I tried in may to get on the list for a Daytona and they simply refused. I'll have to try elsewhere clearly, so interested to know where you are being told 2 years.
Although I understand the intricacy of those Seiko Prestige, somehow I’m not attracted to them – individual taste is a bizarre thing…
Totally. I'm not hugely keen on chunky dive watches, I prefer a larger face over a big bezel.
Although I understand the intricacy of those Seiko Prestige
It's Presage. Prestige make pressure cookers!
Yes sorry - bloody autocorrect!
Still looking 🙂
Quite fancy a Marloe coniston or maybe a pre loved cwc g10
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So to complete my little story, buying stuff on Amazon’s Japanese site is a doddle. Ordered Christmas Eve turned up on Friday. Amazon sort out all the import duty stuff so no hold ups. Easy.
Rocking a Stealth G-Shock now and feeling pleased with myself.
Pictures of the Jap import please.
This is from another forum
The chap must have really skinny wrists as I have delicate flower wrists and it looks smaller than that.
For those that don’t know these, it’s design is based on the original G-Shock from 35 years ago. EXACTLY the same functionality can be had from a £75 one from Argos. This one differs in the screen face is more muted and the case is steel embedded in resin rather than just resin. Oh, and it has a screw down back rather than 4 screws holding it on.
This version is only available on the Japanese market. I like it.
It's nice. What model no. is it?
Edit - got it GW-5000 1JF. About £200?
That’s the one.
From Amazon it works out at just under £250 with delivery/import fees etc.
Originally I wanted a solid beater watch, but got carried away once I started digging into forums. I’ll still treat it as such though. Would be wrong not too.
This is the more standard issue
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A friend of mine has a brother who was in a certain regiment based in Hereford.
While he was still "in" we visited him and had a weekend on the beer. He showed us loads
of photographs from expeditions etc. and some very interesting memorabilia.
While we were drinking a few Flower's IPAs in one of the rural boozers, I complimented his watch. It was the original G-Shock shown above.
He offered it to me as a gift but I politely declined.
Wish I'd have taken it now. A classic watch with some interesting "stories" no doubt.
I like the fact it’s a fit and forget sort of watch, doesn’t need cosseting, it sorts it’s accuracy out from the atomic clock radio broadcasts and powers it’s self from the magic thing in the sky.
Interesting that the newer versions have more recessed buttons than the originals.
I have always wanted a square G-Shock and very pleased with this one. The original is still Uber cool.
plus one, my local and very friendly jeweller who specialises in used watches has a CWC g10 in the window. I'll chekc the price with him if you like
I've just got the cheaper resin version, the 5600 1-ER.
Love the classic square case, solar, self adjust, nicer to wear than my bulky 7900 but smaller buttons so harder to use.
Also have a load of cheap Casios, they just keep multiplying. 🙂
The only watches I've ever considered for over £100 are the Orient Bambino, O07J and most of all the Seiko Alpinist mentioned earlier.
However, a couple of duff 5's over the years has put me off mechanicals for now......