Tissot - could I do better for the same money?

[MrBig]

I'm after a stainless chronograph for daily duties but a recent house purchase has left funds a little stretched.

Quite like the look of this Tissot V8 but I don't know a great deal about the watches themselves. Are they generally regarded as being half decent? There's not much about at the £300 mark, and as much as I love my G Shocks, having a stainless chrono with 'Casio' plastered across it just doesn't seem right, so the Edifices are out.

http://www.goldsmiths.co.uk/Tissot-V8-Gents-Watch/...

I would like to get a couple of years use out of it while I fill up the piggy bank for my dream watch.

[MrBig]

Just realised I have missed a whole load of replies here!

Thanks for all your replies, especially Variomatic who obviously has knowledge way in advance of my own. I need to sit down to read and digest them properly, but it has rather put me off Tissot for the time being!!