Recommend a watch £400 to £500 budget

[MOBB]

For my nephews 21st

Only thing I'm sure about is he wants a large wearing watch with a brown leather strap. And chronograph style

Brand more important than quality sadly, but heyho

Edited by MOBB on Thursday 20th July 20:29

[nikaiyo2]

Have a look at Jomashop from the Us they often have Tissot, Ball etc at 60% discounts off RRP so even allowing for 20% at customs you can get some stunning deals

[T6 vanman]

Put some work in and get him the exact item he wants

https://www.121time.com/

HTH

[mikeveal]

Could you stretch?
http://www.chrono24.co.uk/omega/-dynamic-iii--1660...
Ignore the date the vendor has, this model was released in 1997, making it very very nearly as old as your nephew.

A very good quality watch, currently an undervalued model IMHO, which is why I'm suggesting it. Its a keeper and I think its value will increase.

Other than that for new standard answers in this price range are the Tissot VisoDate or the Hamilton Intra-matic. The latter is a much better watch, but is dearer.

mobb said:

And chronograph style

Oh bugger, I missed that . Sorry.

You won't get a good mechanical chrono for that money, not even second hand. Hell you may even struggle to get a shoddy one.
You may struggle to get a quartz chrono from a "Brand" too. Quartz isn't my thing, and neither really are chronos.

Try Casio / Citizen. Tissot may have something, but only selected models from their range are decent, they are mainly fashion watches nowadays.
Hmmn, how about a Christopher Ward C3 Malvern Chrono? I'll let you google it.

Edited by mikeveal on Friday 21st July 12:49

[lostkiwi]

How about a nice Bulova Moonwatch?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/262932693279?chn=ps&d...

In case anyone should think its just an homage to the Omega the Bulovas did actually go to the moon and was used by Dave Scott (it was his personal watch - NASA at that time speccing Omegas). Dave Scotts personal Bulova was auctioned for £1.6million(!) in 2015.
http://www.ablogtowatch.com/bulova-moon-watch/

[Wobbegong]

Tissot V8

[Dicky Knee]

This:

http://www.creationwatches.com/products/hamilton-m...