The under £200 watch thread!
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I've had one for 7 years, got me into watches. It was my first automatic and never got it serviced, wore it daily. Took me a long time to know it was actually a "homage" of an existing Rolex. Someone at the sport club pointed it out to me.
He started talking about how his Rolex was better than cheap replicas, justifying the price, took me over a minute to realize he was talking about my watch
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The fact that he also drove a Porsche and then after all these years seeing the Wrist Check thread may have not gave me the best introduction to Rolex owners
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He started talking about how his Rolex was better than cheap replicas, justifying the price, took me over a minute to realize he was talking about my watch
.The fact that he also drove a Porsche and then after all these years seeing the Wrist Check thread may have not gave me the best introduction to Rolex owners
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Fullook said:
£14.99 from Amazon - bought last week for running / swimming etc when the chrono function on my long suffering quartz Tag Kirium went on strike. I went for this rather than the F-91 on account of the apparently better WR
I've grumbled here before about G Shocks being ugly, and we had a follow-on about robustness and their suitability for man-stuff, but that ^^^ seems to me to be a much better alternative. It's no particular looker, granted, but slimmer and less obtrusive than a G, and very much cheaper. CharlesdeGaulle said:
Fullook said:
I've grumbled here before about G Shocks being ugly, and we had a follow-on about robustness and their suitability for man-stuff, but that ^^^ seems to me to be a much better alternative. It's no particular looker, granted, but slimmer and less obtrusive than a G, and very much cheaper. I've plenty of form for buying watches based on 'want' rather than 'need' but this one was a satisfyingly sensible option and, as you say, avoids the take-your-eye-out styling excesses of some G-Shocks.
magpie215 said:
kuro said:
Couldn't resist one of these pro divers for £60 on prime day a couple of weeks back. However, it's taken 3 attempts to get one that's satisfactory. The first had a misaligned cyclops and the second kept stopping after a few hours on wrist which surprised me given the nh35a movements reputation for reliability.
This one seems fine running at - 15 seconds over the last 24 hours. Despite the QC issues and the hate for the brand these are very nice watches for the money.
[url]This one seems fine running at - 15 seconds over the last 24 hours. Despite the QC issues and the hate for the brand these are very nice watches for the money.
Really pleased with how my invicta has turned out.
Removed cyclops and fitted MM style hands.
|https://thumbsnap.com/P4SQjgLu[/url]Had the 8926ob on for the past few days but swapped to my Orient ray today. Back to back the Orient is a higher quality watch but the Invicta isn't that far off considering it was less then half the price.
kuro said:
Looks good with the new hands. I had one of those grand divers a couple of years ago. It was the most accurate auto I ever had but I always found it a little on the large side.
Had the 8926ob on for the past few days but swapped to my Orient ray today. Back to back the Orient is a higher quality watch but the Invicta isn't that far off considering it was less then half the price.
My Invicta is really accurate I think its around -3s a day.Had the 8926ob on for the past few days but swapped to my Orient ray today. Back to back the Orient is a higher quality watch but the Invicta isn't that far off considering it was less then half the price.
Fullook said:
£14.99 from Amazon - bought last week for running / swimming etc when the chrono function on my long suffering quartz Tag Kirium went on strike. I went for this rather than the F-91 on account of the apparently better WR
£14.99? Luxury! Gotta love a Casio.
I may be scraping the barrel with this Superlative Gardening Chronometer. £2.99 from Ebay UK.
It's a Casio, er, 'style' watch. But the battery has got be worth three quid, right? Er...
My £2.99 'Cashio' arrived today. Of Casio original parts, there are none. Casio brand on the front? Keine. On the back? Zip.The strap is equally horrible and capable of severing an artery. On the upside, it's sharp enough for sawing down trees.
Watch appears to have been assembled by Ray Charles. It is probably the most blatant, woeful and horrible knock-off I've come across. I don't even think it's worth £2.99, although the jiffy bag it came in is genuine and I'm already counting my good fortune.
However, it will do for 'gardening/holiday' duty, although it seems to be needing a new battery.
On the upside the replacement Casio A500 World Time also arrived today, so the 'Cashio' will be used to experiment upon, until I can kill it with fire.
The other daily driver is currently a Bulova Precisionist Longwood. ($200.) A beautiful thing, with a four layer deep dial. They are a bit more expensive now, so I daren't post pics for fear of being black-balled.
Cashio:
Watch appears to have been assembled by Ray Charles. It is probably the most blatant, woeful and horrible knock-off I've come across. I don't even think it's worth £2.99, although the jiffy bag it came in is genuine and I'm already counting my good fortune.
However, it will do for 'gardening/holiday' duty, although it seems to be needing a new battery.
On the upside the replacement Casio A500 World Time also arrived today, so the 'Cashio' will be used to experiment upon, until I can kill it with fire.
The other daily driver is currently a Bulova Precisionist Longwood. ($200.) A beautiful thing, with a four layer deep dial. They are a bit more expensive now, so I daren't post pics for fear of being black-balled.
Cashio:
Been a fan of Bulova for many years and think they are very underrated!!! Do the collective think these might make it into thread budget by the time rrp is ignored and the prices level out???
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