[Closed] Whats the most you would pay for a watch?

The Corum video is amazing, but the watch itself is just tacky.

iamtheresurrection - IIRC the Omega Coaxial isn't just a converted ETA movement but you're quite right about some of the others. If it doesn't have the Coax it's a tweaked ETA (not that there's anything at all wrong with that).

IWH - I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. I'm pretty sure the co-axial is still based on the ETA 2892, but the derivative is nevertheless exclusive to Omega and a bloody clever tweak (English invention too).

Why, why, why do I frequent this place?

I have just bought an automatic for riding my bike, FFS, I was perfectly happy this morning!

Still, it cost less than half the price of the service on my Oris, so it must be a bargin (sic) 😉

Those Corum watches are genuinely tasteless shite. It's been a while since I've seen the obvious "Considerably more money than thou" bollox that those watches represent.

I'd spend whatever I could afford on a watch I liked. I'm not a Tag or Rolex fan, but did buy myself an Omega Speedmaster reduced just over a year ago when I just happened to have been given my redundancy cheque and there was a sale on at the jewellers, got it for just under half price.
I've been left some money from my grandparents, just waiting for some land to sell and then will treat myself to another watch in remembrance of them, not sure what yet probably wither a IWC or Panerai, or if the land sale goes sky high at auction may be a Blancpain.

I don't like watches and rely just on a mobile phone. Don't like the feeling of one around my wrist. One day I will inherit my grandfathers 1920s patek philippe, I've no idea how it would be practical to wear a watch of that value without being worried.

Seiko military automatic will be my next watch.

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I have this now.

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But I also like this Seiko.

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Depends who it is I'm being asked to pay to watch.

solamanda - Member

I don't like watches and rely just on a mobile phone. Don't like the feeling of one around my wrist. One day I will inherit my grandfathers 1920s patek philippe, I've no idea how it would be practical to wear a watch of that value without being worried.

Very similar to myself. The only time I've ever worn watches was pre owning a mobile phone, or when I was dressing up a bit, and I had a nice looking fully stainless Quiksilver watch (which should've been about £150, but cost me less than £30!) that I'd wear. Certainly wouldn't have paid £150 or anywhere near that though, but at £30 it was worth it. Strap broke about 3 years ago though, haven't bothered to get it fixed as it would no doubt cost more than it cost to get done!

My Grandad was into his bling though. From the old school of "wear your wealth on your wrists and on your wheels" kind of thinking, and to an extent my Dad followed. Anyway, my Grandad had a ridiculous 24ct Rolex (think Bobby George the darts player, though without the diamonds in fairness) that weighed as much as a house brick! He also had a Bentley, and back then (don't know if they still do) you got a Bentley watch with each Bentley purchase (believe it was made by IWC, though I may be wrong).

Anyway, both watches were left to my Dad by his Dad, and he has since added 2 Breitlings and more recently an IWC. Each of which costing between about £2500 and £5000 new... Probably worth more now, who knows (not me at least). Also he has a rather expensive carriage clock which he and my mother bought about 20 years ago that is probably 150 years or more old, and made by a well known (name escapes me though) carriage clock maker of years gone by, again worth upwards of £3000...

All of which I stand to inherit someday (unless he's sold the lot of course)... And sorry to say, the first thing I'd do with all of them would be sell the lot! Just does nothing for me. Call me a heathen, but whilst I appreciate greatly the engineering and design behind most of these watches and clocks, they just have no appeal whatsoever to me.

One of my best mates also bought himself an IWC for Christmas, all I could think of when seeing it was exactly where else the money would get spent instead if I had it!

Have to agree with the corum comments - bit to bling - but stand by my comments on craftsmanship.....

As an aside, anyone know a resource where I can go learn about the mechanics of timepieces?

Very similar to myself.

For myself I'd never sell, as it's a reminder of my grandfather. He himself didn't like flash things, he was bought the watch by a client and barely wore it. It serves as a reminder not to judge by wealth and his attitude. It's lived 99% of it's life in the original box!

Never could justify to myself spending a shed load on a ****in watch.

Mind you I gained a healthy disdain after whacking my 21st b/day seiko off a wall 'dismounting' a motorbike at 70 mph - unlike me it never recovered from it.

A couple of years ago I looked at a Tissot but ended up with the 'cheap' £125 ti job as it more what I was after. And the damn thing went tits up after 2 years. So avoided 'expensive' ever since. Currently wearing my 15 year old Rotary as it still [i]works[/i].

Dammit.. this thread has got me thinking about buying a Suunto altiwatchamacallit thing. (Snow and Rock discount)

I love the engineering aspect of mechanical watches, a fascinating exercise in shrinking all of those bearings, cogs and springs down to a size that fits on a wrist. I'm amazed by the (nowhere near as good as quartz) accuracy too given what goes on inside the case.

However, that side of it is easily satisfied with <£150 japanese ones, especially now that ebay brings all of the interesting ones that have never been sold in the UK within reach. Lots of watches in the price range above that (including some really expensive ones) just use off-the-shelf movements, with maybe some degree of customisation if you're lucky. Only up into the silly money do you get proper in-house movements.

And I agree with the sentiments about size - the fashion for big watches is silly. You look like an idiot unless you've got arms like Arnie to pull it off.

Big Fat Zero. Never seen the point in owning a watch.

Dammit.. this thread has got me thinking about buying a Suunto altiwatchamacallit thing. (Snow and Rock discount)

Don't bother, mine goes through one battery a month at the moment and sometimes all the led on the screen are on...

100!!!!!!!!

pete you attention whore 😉

Juan, you're just jelous that I got the 100!

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Enough Said.

I just bought one of these for everyday, about £300, a new equivalent is £1800, I love fleebay sometimes 🙂

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Just got left £1,000 pounds from my Gran. Never had a decent watch so spent £600 on one of these. Love it!!
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Tag Heuer Monaco, black face,alligator strap £2.5k, bought it because I always wanted one and I wear it every day to work.

Seiko Automatic Divers watch, £350, wear it for biking etc. indestructableand waterproof.

Halfords HRM /Watch £25, wear it on the days that I pretend to be that serious about training.

Silver Fob watch bought for me for 40th, wear it with kilt and waistcoat £300. All I need is a pipe and whiskers and I would look like the lord o' the isles!

Not wearing a Tag you won't! 😉

I was going to say i've only spent £120 and I thought that was silly money then I remembered I spent £250 on a Garmin 305 forerunner.
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Just put my TAG in for a service (and to be fixed - it stopped working and sounded a bit rattly) - £195 - ouch.

Was quoted £390 for service and to replace strap because "it's looking a bit worn sir". Service only was £200, making strap worth £190! Is it made from the scraps left over from the rabbi's bacon butties?

Not surprisingly the strap is still going strong 18 months on.

Depends on how much money I have. If I were Abramovic, and liked a 10 million pound watch, I'd have it.

I bought a watch very similar to this around 1981:

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I'd been staring at it in the jewelers window for ages, and bit the bullet just before going to a beerfest weekend in Brussels. It cost £230 back then. It was quite dear to me - my favourite possession in fact. I was gutted when I lost it in a pub fight. Luckily it was insured, and the replacement cost £975 about 7 years ago. It's exactly as above, but has date - which is pretty much always wrong, cos I don't set it every month. Oh, hands are black, and it has a second hand too.

Wouldn't spend more than a few hundred, and even then only for something I really like.

I'd like to get one of these:
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About 9 years ago I took a sabbatical and went around India for a year. On the way there I saw a nice watch for £1000 in Dubai duty free and made a mental note to buy it on the way back through. Whilst I was in India I occasionally thought about it/hoped it would still be there/imagined myself wearing it/thought about how my peers would admire it etc etc, and as the end of the trip drew near I started looking forward to be able to revisit the shop at Dubai airport.

On the last day of my trip, having loads of travellers cheques left over and lived like a hippy for 10 months I decided to treat myself to lunch at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai - India's (and possibly the world's) finest hotel.

I noticed the street kid lying in the doorway of one of the entrances and I also noticed the nice watch of one of the guests who tutted and mentioned in a very loud voice that 'they should clear him away' and 'they didn't stay at the Taj to see that sort of thing' It was the same as the one I had been daydreaming about

Well 'they' did clear him away, 10 minutes later, body fully covered in the back of an ambulance, to the local morgue. Apparently he had been begging in the doorway of the hotel since dawn and died of dehydration, he had collected 70 rupees - about 30 pence

I gave the money to an appropriate charity instead and didn't have lunch.