Any help appreciated......

[FRJ79]

Good Afternoon, I have been looking at watches for sometime now and have yet to take the plunge.

These particular watches have caught my eye and are within my price range of up to £850. I prefer the idea of a Quartz watch, around 40mm in size and chronograph.

Any advice or suggestions? What’s the best watch, best place to purchase etc.


Raymond Weil –
http://www.ernestjones.co.uk/webstore/d/8420289/?u...

Tag Heuer –
http://www.goldsmiths.co.uk/product/tag-heuer-form...

Longines
http://www.swisswatchesdirect.co.uk/swisswatches/l...

Thanks in advance.

[anonymous-user]

It is obviously your choice as its your money, but there's no way on Earth I could bring myself to spend 850 GBP on a quartz watch. Why do you prefer quartz, out of interest? Reliability? Accuracy? Some other reason? (I'm not being an arse, I'm just curious as to why that's your preference).

[bry1975]

Hi there,

Check tagexchange.co.uk

Be careful spending £850 on a quartz as most wont hold their value better
checking the preowned watches as you'll buy a better investment.

[FRJ79]

To be honest, the quartz idea is really down to price. the watches that have caught my eye have all been quartz and if not they are all > £2000.

Suppose I am just going for the cheap option.....


Thanks for the advice though, much appreciated

[bry1975]

Have you looked at Omega SMP Seamasters prices should be around £550-£900 secondhand tz-uk.com good for them.

[kazste]

Plenty of good quality mechanical watches available at this price point, new you could go oris,glycine rotary. Secondhand though might be worth a look, places like watches.co.UK, watchfinder.co.UK, heuerboy, and hackett watches amongst others all will have a decent choice for this range.

[tertius]

To be honest all the ones you list are, well, pretty ordinary and will lose money hand over fist once bought. If you are buying to keep then that won't matter, but if you think you might fancy a change down the line it is worth thinking about.

Based on the style of those three, I would suggest you look at: Sinn, Damasko, Steinhart, Tourby, Glycine and Stowa watches. Google should turn up all the relevant sites.

[GC8]

Prefer quartz and prefer Raymond Weil? This is a 'what watch?' thread for people who dont like watches

[bry1975]

Sinn do some lovely tool watches always liked the Hydro models.

[GC8]

At that price point Id probably go for a larger sized (of the two) Longine Hydroconquest automatic. If you are prepared to haggle theres an automatic chrono too...

[FRJ79]

Thanks again guys and girls. I suppose I have been lured in with a brand name rather than engineering quality. What about Christopher ward?. Also I doubt I would ever resell but you never know these days. The search continues ......

[kazste]

We can tell you what watches we think you should buy, but as an owner of a quartz omega constellation which I will never sell, I can honestly say if you want a watch an it happens to be a quartz then buy it.
Just remembered I also own not only a quartz tag heuer but its also digital so two wrongs there!

[GC8]

Some quartz movements are brilliant. I have an old (properly old) Omega with as many jewels as a contemporary hand winding action, but modern equivalents use a cheap ETA movement and offer relatively poor value.

[Easty-5]

GC8 said:

Prefer quartz and prefer Raymond Weil? This is a 'what watch?' thread for people who dont like watches

What's wrong with Raymond Weil?

[GC8]

That works both ways. Whats good about RW? Its subjective of course: what I like you may not and vice versa, but RW are a young company with little to offer (either in terms of history, achievements, quality, or value), in my opinion.

[Easty-5]

GC8 said:

That works both ways. Whats good about RW? Its subjective of course: what I like you may not and vice versa, but RW are a young company with little to offer (either in terms of history, achievements, quality, or value), in my opinion.

History and achievements I can agree with you on. Quality and Value, is where I disagree though. I was looking to buy a watch, to keep, for my 21st last year. I tried on numerous watches from different brands. Tag, Rolex, RW, Oris, Omega etc and in the end I settled for the RW Freelancer - purely on the basis of value and quality. Have you ever handled one. I'd challenge you to find a watch with a better constructed bracelet for the price. Infact, I think you'd struggle to find a better bracelet on any watch. It is absolutely superb and anybody who has handled it agree'd. I even had the manager of a Rolex outlet compliment it. The movement is a standard Valjoux 7750, which seems to be the standard movement in a new watch around that price. I cannot see how anybody could think it is of lesser quality of any other high end watch between the £1.5-£2k region i.e Tag & Omega.

I've no idea how the lower end RW's fair in comparison but I certainly wouldn't say RW lacks quality or value.

[CommanderJameson]

Longines Hydroconquest auto.

Proper watch.

£666.

Looks nice.

http://www.precisiontime.co.uk/longines-l36414566-...

The chronograph version is just over a grand.

[ApexJimi]

CommanderJameson said:

Longines Hydroconquest auto.

Proper watch.

£666.

Looks nice.

http://www.precisiontime.co.uk/longines-l36414566-...

This man spaketh sense

The Hydroconquest is a lovely watch in the flesh, with a nice heft and quality feel to it.

Tremendous value for money in my opinion.

Edited by ApexJimi on Friday 11th November 09:58

[CommanderJameson]

Easty-5 said:

I'd challenge you to find a watch with a better constructed bracelet for the price. Infact, I think you'd struggle to find a better bracelet on any watch.

Any Omega Seamaster will have a better bracelet than the RW.

Harsh but true.

And as for "a better bracelet on any watch", well.

Rolex Glidelock. IWC Engineueueuer.

Those two spring to mind immediately. I'm sure there are more.

[LukeBird]

The MM300 bracelet is a work of art, probably the best I have handled (can't comment on the latest Rolex Glidelock one, just the rattly old ones).
The SMP one is lovely though, one of my favourites.