Suggest me a watch for £1500

[pessimal]

Hi,

I have a birthday coming up and someones offering to buy me a watch.

I'd like something a bit different and individual, but other than that i have very little idea as to what i fancy, i'm not bothered whether its a birth year (1977) watch, or a brand new one. I don't have a great deal of affection for the usual sub type watches, but i have yet to get one on my wrist, so i could be persuaded.

Having had a walk around some local jewellers the other day i saw a Hamilton triangular watch and a Baume & Mercier watch that i liked the look of.

It's mainly going to be for best and holidays, but if its hard enough wearing i might wear it for work once in a while (IT Tech)

Thanks for any suggestions

[pessimal]

Ohhh, finally i can reply!! (Something has been annoying forum admins so they stopped new members posting ), so apologies for asking a question and then not replying

Went looking at watches with the wife over the weekend (think she prefered the bubbly on offer to some of my choices)

Despite my diffidence towards dive type watches, the tudor black bay, with a black bazel and a leather strap is the current front runner.

Tried on all sorts from reymond weil, breitling, omega and came to various conclusions. First being that me liking a certain type or watch normally means it dosent suit me, Bracelets dont seem to suit me, some manufactures straps and amost too small to go over my hand when set to the right size for my wrist, and my wife gets too tippsy on a single glass of bubbly, and when it comes to dial's i'm incredibly fussy!

Think some more time will be spent looking this weekend comming, but i'm thinking its going to end up being the tudor

Edited by pessimal on Monday 31st July 21:14

[pessimal]

gregd said:

A fair bit cheaper but I like these.. they will engrave them FOC for you too.

http://www.nomos-store.com/en/Watches/Model-series...

i always like the look of watches like that, but on the wrist there a bit smart/classy for me.

[pessimal]

cbmotorsport said:

If you get the Tudor, I would recommend getting it on the bracelet. You can buy a good leather strap for not a lot of money if that what's you prefer, but you'll have to spend a few hundred pounds to get the bracelet retrospectively.

If you ever need or want to sell it on, then it'll be worth more on the bracelet.

Good choice of watch btw.

I might have a look and see how much extra a bracelet is, but to be honest, this is a watch to keep rather than sell on, so any reduction in resale value isnt of any interest, and i think part of the appeal of the watch to me is the distressed leather strap. To me it fits the watch nicely, and suits my style rather more than the bracelet. We quickly got to the point where we didnt bother looking at any watches with a bracelet as the first 3 or 4 i tried on just didnt work on me with a bracelet.

i'm assuming that there's no discounts on purchasing these, or is it possible to negotiate a free service etc.

talking of which, how often or necessary is it to get these serviced?

cheers

[pessimal]

is there an easy way to check if its the in house movement or the ETA movement?

[pessimal]

Tudor black bay bought

photo incoming later on

thanks for all the help and advice

[pessimal]

in the same way i could have bought my skoda superb, or 7.5% of a Bentley!