New watch

[scorchio]

Hi guys I have been a lurker on here for a while now much to the worry of my wife. I got treated to a beautiful breitling super ocean II with the black and red strap for our wedding, so seen as my wife is getting a nice watch instead of a maternity ring when our wee one is born in April I thought I should get a new watch too.

As my wife has picked a breitling colt with rose strap I fear I am falling into only looking at breitlings, my eye lately has been drawn to the panerai luminor pam0441 and a few of the radio Mir ones. Has anyone got any experience of these watches or ideas for something different ?, got a max budget of say 5-6k


Cheers

[kazste]

Its like saying, hi here's a nice juicy stake to a pack of wolves!
You will get lots of people looking at the well known secondhand markets giving you suggestions, which won't go down well as it will inevitably lead to at least four of us buying a new watch, and five of us getting shouted at by our better halves for wasting their handbag money.

So before the madness starts would you be happy with a secondhand suggestion or do we have to keep it to new watches only?

Here's my suggestion if we can go secondhand, http://www.watchfinder.co.uk/IWC/Vintage%20Portugu...

Edited by kazste on Monday 16th December 20:10

[yeti]

/drums fingers waiting for PJ S to post a huge list of microbrands from chrono24

As many will say, get on chrono24 and enter that budget, you'll be surprised at what comes up pre-owned.

As to Radiomirs; my PAM190 (8 days) is possibly the one watch I won't sell. I rarely wear it because when I do, I just sit and stare at it all day! Rads are great, but try one on.

Ideally, you want a foil to the Breitling, something different, so no divers. A nice chrono would do the trick, maybe an IWC Flieger...

Edited by yeti on Monday 16th December 21:50

[PJ S]

Have fun – select individual brands to make the searching more manageable.

Meant to say as well, you could spend less than your budget and get many a nice watch – what about a Tudor Black Bay or Pelagos?
One of my favourites is Perrelet A1061

Edited by PJ S on Tuesday 17th December 00:26

[yeti]

PJ S said:

Meant to say as well, you could spend less than your budget and get many a nice watch – what about a Tudor Black Bay or Pelagos?

2 brilliant watches, but a bit to similar in concept and execution to the Breitling IMHO. Unless he wants a collection of divers

Dull as it is, and suggested as it inevitably will be... you'll struggle to better the Omega Speedmaster Professional for history, respectability or useablity. Proper hesalite crystal version required with solid caseback, looks great on bracelet or strap. For many years on a black croc, mine was the 'dress watch'. Althought it's 42mm, it's very slim by today's standards.

[PJ S]

yeti said:

PJ S said:

Meant to say as well, you could spend less than your budget and get many a nice watch – what about a Tudor Black Bay or Pelagos?

2 brilliant watches, but a bit to similar in concept and execution to the Breitling IMHO. Unless he wants a collection of divers

That could be said of practically every diver watch out there, yet many manage to have something different enough about them which would allow for their inclusion without making it seem the collection is a bit one-sided.

Of course, there's the Perrelet I memntioned, and then we could diversify into the Schaumburg (Lindburg + Benson on C24) Moonphase Meteorite, or Grand Seiko Snowflake (SBGA011) or Ananta.

Then again, if we consider purely that PAMs started out as military watches, then IWC and Glashutte Original Fleiger models start becoming potential candidates.

With the list on C24 I've linked, the OP has a good few months to get through all the different brands to see which (if any) grab his attention.

[scorchio]

Cheers for the responses guys, I looked at the Tudor watch and it's not my style but it's still nice. Whilst I was in picking up the wife's colt I nearly enquired about panerai. Now they showed me the stock available to them and the one that jumped out at me was the pam00005......... Wow very nice but I don't think it's this years model as there was limited stock.

They said they could easily get it in for me once I come back onshore , price is well under budget so could be onto a winner

[Mja300]

Be better off buying my pam00090. Looks a lot like the 0005 but with the power reserve indicator.
;-)