What would you buy for £5000?

[JOETHETOE]

Second hand or brand new...?

[Pesty]

A pam 279 jsut beacuse its a grail watch of mine. used or new

however I would probaly end up buying a couple of Anonimos' and a sinn or two. second hand

Edited by Pesty on Friday 16th October 14:10

[ascayman]

JLC new if you can.

[Lefty Guns]

Stainless Daytona



I know it's a cliche but I think they're lovely. And, no, I don't work in the city.

[ShadownINja]

Fifty Fathoms Dark Knight, obviously.

[Grey Ghost]

Stainless Daytona with white face

Gotta be able to get one for £5000 in the current economic environment.

[J888SXY]

You can just about get a Breguet for that.

[andy tims]

These are £5,700 new, but I paid a fair bit less than that for mine. Pre-owned but mint condition.

[Pesty]

ShadownINja said:

Fifty Fathoms Dark Knight, obviously.

ooh good choice


That GO is Fantastic as well

[The GMan]

A second hand GP Sea Hawk and a TAG Monaco.

[SaliMali]

A G-shock Mud Man

[Rouleur]

Bell & Ross BR02, plus £2k change

[cyberface]

J888SXY said:

You can just about get a Breguet for that.

I paid a fair bit less for my type XX transatlantique - lovely watch and neat flyback complication. But it's a sports chrono, and if you want the traditional coin-edged guilloche-fest of a Classic type Breguet then yes you'll pay more.

My money would be on a used JLC Reverso with an interesting complication - like the Gran Sport Chronographe I've just bought. Get it checked *very* thoroughly before buying, the chrono minute totalizer on mine doesn't return to zero when you press the reset button, so it's off to JLC for a full-on service and will hopefully come back as good as new. The movement in that watch was a masterpiece, the designer at JLC considered it harder to do than the Reverso tourbillon, at 3 years in the making.

You can get all manner of stuff for £5k, but it's more or less entry level steel watches from the top 3 (pick three of JLC, Patek, Breguet, Vacheron, AP ). And Patek don't do steel 'proper' watches (you can get a lady's rip-off steel quartz for that, if you must).

JLC are the only top-tier manufacture who put their complications in steel cases - yes they're still expensive but you don't automatically have to pay for a lump of precious metal you may not need (or want to be seen, big gold watches being conspicuous). I'm biased, of course, having fallen in love with JLC in a big way

[chrisxr2]

The TAG Heuer Grand CARRERA Calibre 36 RS believe it is around 5 grand. Just released into the tag range and in my opinion absolutely stunning. No pic due to poor satellite signal offshore.

[CommanderJameson]

J888SXY said:

You can just about get a Breguet for that.

If you were to drive a hard bargain, you might just sneak away with a Classique manual wind.

Which would be awful, I'm sure you'll agree. Owning it would be such a chore.

Still, these things I must do for you people. Now if you'll just organise the finance, I can get on with the dismal job of wearing the watch.

I note with some pleasure that you can get a Type XX Aeronavale on leather for round about £3500, or as I like to think of it, the list price of the A. Lange & Sohne platinum deployant clasp.

Edited by CommanderJameson on Saturday 17th October 00:17

[CommanderJameson]

I think it'd depend. For a watch with lots of doodads, JLC Master Calendar:



For something a bit dressy, one of the Blancpain Villeret ultra slim jobbies. I bet you can get a manual for under five bags of sand.