Help - vintage or roman face watch recommendations please

[Flip Martian]

Squadrone Rosso said:

I have a Visodate (centre) Very nice.



This however, bought on the weekend is in a different league:-

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Edited by Squadrone Rosso on Monday 13th March 22:06

Edited by Squadrone Rosso on Monday 13th March 22:11

Very nice... Yes the Tissot is up there at the moment, with the Hamilton... I could just get both I suppose..

[steve2]

I have a legend diver and still love it

[AlexC1981]

I would love to get my hands on that Longines and compare it with an Orient Bambino. A watch from a decent manufacturer, very similarity styled, but in a much lower price bracket. I can't help but wonder if there is much in it with this type of watch.

[Flip Martian]

Orients look great, just haven't found one in the flesh yet

[Flip Martian]

Plenty of time to look now - watch arm is out of action for a couple of weeks following an op. So plenty more research I can do - just not trying anything on.

Thanks for all the suggestions anyway, I'll post up what I get (when I can finally get them).

[Flip Martian]

Restarted the search and found something completely "not what I was looking for" but attractive nonetheless. And quite cheap, so this will be a daily wear, while I can still seek out the more expensive non quartz alternative for dress wear and "best".

I think it was the blue face and grey numerals that made me think "that's different" - and that its fairly small and slim. And it has a vaguely "1960s" look to it, for me.

http://www.ernestjones.co.uk/webstore/d/1476505/sk...

Reviews around the web seem positive in the main, so worth a go.

Edited by Flip Martian on Friday 14th April 13:36

[Flip Martian]

Took me a while - 1 or 2 other things occupying my time but given the insurance card was in danger of running out soon, I refocused on the watch search. Thanks for all the suggestions - finally pulled the trigger on the Certina DS1 Powermatic 80. Just beat a Tissot Visodate in the end...and to be honest, I might still get that at some point. As my wife said, its very "like ones you had before" (which were what got nicked).

The Certina was probably not a design in my original thinking when I started - but neither was the Skagen. And I've been wearing roman face for years so perhaps time for a change, of sorts. Learned a lot during this (had never even heard of Certina, after all), so thanks all.