Help me find a new watch please

[plasticpig]

Looking for a new watch but am struggling to find what I am after. I want a watch that has all the hour numbers on the outside of the dial face and the hour and minute marks inside them. The only watch I can find with this design is a Laco Tundra.



I quite like the look of this but it's at the top of my budget; and I am waiting to find out if it can be worn with a stainless steel bracelet rather than a rubber strap.
To give you an idea it's to replace a Citizen 2100 (no longer made) which I purchased because the numbers are on the outside of the dial and had a stainless steel bracelet.



Budget is anything less than £800 which is what the Laco would cost with a bracelet. Not bothered if it's a quartz or automatic movement; it's the dial design and the bracelet which are important to me.

[PJ S]

Easier to suggest jumping on chrono24 and filtering the watches to show up to £1000, to allow for budget movement and negotiating down.
Anything that piques your interest but unsure of, just ask.

[telecat]

Anything wrong with the Eco-Drive? I have had mine for 12 years and found it was powering down. A few weeks in the window on Sunny mornings and it's working well again.

Edited by telecat on Tuesday 28th April 12:26

[plasticpig]

PJ S said:

Easier to suggest jumping on chrono24 and filtering the watches to show up to £1000, to allow for budget movement and negotiating down.
Anything that piques your interest but unsure of, just ask.

Thanks for that suggestion. It just makes me wish I had a bigger budget

However I did find this around my budget. A 24 hour watch could be interesting; although I have never heard of Glycine before; but then I hadn't heard of Laco either.

[plasticpig]

telecat said:

Anything wrong with the Eco-Drive? I have had mine for 12 years and found it was powering down. A few weeks in the window on Sunny mornings and it's working well again

The crown came off in my hand when I went to change the hour when the clock's went back. I took it to a Jewelers who said their Horologist could repair it. The Horologist told the Jeweler to send it to Citizen. The Jewelers say it's with Citizen and will take ages for it to be looked at and Citizen say there is a 10 day turn round time. It's been gone for 4 weeks so I have given up hope of ever seeing it again.

[PJ S]

plasticpig said:

Thanks for that suggestion. It just makes me wish I had a bigger budget

However I did find this around my budget. A 24 hour watch could be interesting; although I have never heard of Glycine before; but then I hadn't heard of Laco either.

Glycine is one of the many Swatch Group brands – so have no worries about who they are, etc, if they have something that you like the look of.

[telecat]

plasticpig said:

telecat said:

Anything wrong with the Eco-Drive? I have had mine for 12 years and found it was powering down. A few weeks in the window on Sunny mornings and it's working well again

The crown came off in my hand when I went to change the hour when the clock's went back. I took it to a Jewelers who said their Horologist could repair it. The Horologist told the Jeweler to send it to Citizen. The Jewelers say it's with Citizen and will take ages for it to be looked at and Citizen say there is a 10 day turn round time. It's been gone for 4 weeks so I have given up hope of ever seeing it again.

That's a shame. It's the longest I have had any Watch. I bought it because we had some vouchers from a break-in and I wanted a watch that didn't need battery replacement and it has stood the test of time. It's a shame Citizen's backup does not match the quality of their watches.

[marcosgt]

plasticpig said:

PJ S said:

Easier to suggest jumping on chrono24 and filtering the watches to show up to £1000, to allow for budget movement and negotiating down.
Anything that piques your interest but unsure of, just ask.

Thanks for that suggestion. It just makes me wish I had a bigger budget

However I did find this around my budget. A 24 hour watch could be interesting; although I have never heard of Glycine before; but then I hadn't heard of Laco either.

Glycine are a respected make, but that's not a 24 hour watch as such, it's a GMT.

The small hand with the arrowhead moves around the dial once per 24 hours, but the other two hands work as a normal 12 hour watch (the idea is that you set the GMT hand to one location and the hour hand to another - Eg UK and somewhere sunny on holiday ) Apologies if I'm teaching you to suck eggs.

How about a Steinhart Apollon?



http://www.steinhartwatches.de/en/APOLLON-Automati...

A bit of an acquired taste, but I really like mine and a lot of watch for the money.

M

Edited by marcosgt on Wednesday 29th April 09:13

[plasticpig]

marcosgt said:

Glycine are a respected make, but that's not a 24 hour watch as such, it's a GMT.

The small hand with the arrowhead moves around the dial once per 24 hours, but the other two hands work as a normal 12 hour watch (the idea is that you set the GMT hand to one location and the hour hand to another - Eg UK and somewhere sunny on holiday ) Apologies if I'm teaching you to suck eggs.

How about a Steinhart Apollon?

http://www.steinhartwatches.de/en/APOLLON-Automati...

A bit of an acquired taste, but I really like mine and a lot of watch for the money.

M

Edited by marcosgt on Wednesday 29th April 09:13

No apology needed; I did wonder how it worked.

The Apollon is exactly the sort of thing I am looking for. It looks like Steinhart do a titanium bracelet for it as well so I think it may be a winner.

[onward]

I nearly bought this the other day when I took mine in for a service... beaut....

[DUMBO100]

I might sell this

[16plates]

http://www.chrono24.com/en/laco/tundra--id2753692.... - Laco Tundra for under 1000GBP.

I have a steinhart - not the model above but can vouch for the quality of these watches.

[plasticpig]

16plates said:

http://www.chrono24.com/en/laco/tundra--id2753692.... - Laco Tundra for under 1000GBP.

I have a steinhart - not the model above but can vouch for the quality of these watches.

Seen that thanks. It's roughly the factory RRP of 800 EUR. The "official" stainless steel bracelet is £179 though which adds quite a wedge to the price. The UK retailer is selling the watch at £695 which seems very overpriced. If I go for the Laco I will be buying a bracelet from elsewhere.