Haha @ gofasterstripes. Mine are cheap basic ones 🙂 I am finding it's a minefield with so many makes and what is good to buy and what is considered junk. Now I know what a newbie on here feels like with the " what new bike for £?" threads.
If used then the best bang for buck is to go to Spring or Autumn fair at the NEC. It's where the trade do their forward ordering. The jewellery section halls 19/20 has a second hand high end watch dealer that sells at trade. My wife has her own business which is how I end up drooling over nice watches.
You have to be there first thing as all the nice desirable stuff is snapped up-i went looking for a particular Speedmaster but they went early.
It's easy to blag your way in-just create a fictional business name and pre register. Quite considerable savings to be made.
My choice would be a Rolex Airking for the fuss free option or a Speedmaster.
Mine will go to 3900 meters
Good luck getting that back.
^^^^^RE my pic - three Bali Automatic Omega fakes and a Casio Ediface, back when there was a smart one available.
The fakes kept perfect time, but all succumbed to water ingress eventually. For $40 a pop, it was OK.
It's always intrigued me as to how good some fakes are when people are asking £200+ and stating they have swiss movements etc.
Buy a fairly new used Steinhart or similar from eBay and you'll probably just lose postage costs and fees. Not a bad idea 'investing' £25 or so in trying the odd watch before you commit a £1k. Better still take your time trying a few on in a city centre dealers like Jura or Watchfinder and take it from there. Bit like bikes, they can look great but the moment you try it on it won't feel right.
Don't overlook lug to lug length which can be important along with how high it sits and on what strap etc (bracelets balance a watch with heft whereas they can feel top heavy with a leather, rubber, NATO etc).
Sorting on eBay and buying the seller is the cheapest route aside to joining a forum and investing some time to learn.
Thanks. I never realised there was so much to it. So many makes I like. I've seen a christopher ward motorsport inspired watch that looks good for not much but it's got a Swiss quartz movement and my whole reason was to buy a mechanical second hand medium quality watch. I've spent most of this wet wkd watch searching and learning.
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Torgoen T18. Bought recently after having other watches stolen in burglary. Online only sales. Very quick service. Does incur import duty though. Way below your budget. There tactical watch looks quite good as well
does that match the dash in your mid range sports salmon/jet fighter?
Drive a van. Just liked the watch. Sorry it offends you
it doesn't offend me, on the contrary it brightened my day.
I really like the elliot brown crono, in blue c 500. I so nearly bought a n iwc crono but at c 4k for everyday use thought against it. Bought a used elliot brown off here, love it, dropped it in the gym last week and chipped the glass. Would have been gutted if it was a 4k watch, but 37 quid to get the glass replaced.
Have you guys seen this? Not into watches personally, but I thought some of you would probably enjoy this.
I like that Torgoen. Just been browsing through their website. Some nice watches on there.that video link made me smile. Lucky guy .
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I like that Torgoen
No offence (to flibrose) but in that case you can ignore the bulk of my suggestions and get a Citizen/Casio for <£250. They do a lot of busy watches like that.
PS a decent Swiss ETA movement isn't so expensive but Swatch have restricted supply recently which is an issue. There's some very good clone movements meaning similar design to ETA but made elsewhere and similarly regarded. Always nice ensuring an independent watchmaker can service them rather than having to return to the manufacturer. Damasko don't supply their special rubber gaskets to anyone else but until recently they were all ETA mvts so could be serviced locally.
Nice piece on ETA movements
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:deepreddave: No offence (to flibrose).
Non taken. Each to their own. A watch for every occasion is what I think. But then again I only have one bike and it still has 26inch wheels so what the hell do I know.lol
For around a grand I'd look at Stowa, lovely watches for the money
https://www.stowa.de/en/Infos/Home/
"Mine will go to 3900 meters - beat that"
Mine will go to 5000 metres 😉
OCEANA ?
is it one of these Simon ?
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