Watches available for under $500, whether they're vintage, microbrand, grey market starter watches, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Bolivian, whatever. Your taste is your own, but share it here.
This sweet Citizen is half off at $320 right now. Same Guilloché dial as a $450 one with a date and cyclops and no small seconds. This one is way better looking and cheaper.
This is my current vintage collection.
Wearing my 39mm Baltany pilot tonight.
You can actually get some non-quartz Hamiltons for under $500.
I really like this one. It's $506. It's a 40mm "ladies" watch. They don't consider the 38mm Murph a ladies watch. The men's version of this one is 44mm. I'd much rather wear this.Lot of money for a quartz though. I don't love it that much.
>>18691062I hate how long the lugs are on these. Makes them look really bad with anything other than a nato strap. I think the only Hamilton I would ever consider is a 38mm Murph, they look good but I still don't think I'd ever get one since I'm keeping my collection to 8 watches. Any new one I get means I sell one.
And this other men's Jazzmaster is also 40mm and it's even 2mm thinner than the thinline ladies one above. It's $362. As I've said before, I don't mind buying a ladies watch. I have a couple in the collection. Sometimes you can get the better size and also save money. But often the ladies ones will be too small for their shape. I won't wear a circular 30mm watch with slender bands. I just read somewhere that someone was mentioning how the watches look smaller on your wrist in the mirror than when you look down at them. Which I hadn't even considered. I wear them for myself after all. But it's nice knowing a 42mm wouldn't look too big and silly if I wore one.
>>18691071Yeah, I don't like that huge gap between the strap and the watch. Those would all look fine with metal bracelets probably, but they're easily all 2mm too long. Which is why I actually prefer Murph homages to the real thing. 47mm lug-to-lug seems ridiculous for 38mm watches. It gives the whole thing a long look that stretches further over your wrist. Those Bertuccis and Boderrys in the field style are some of the worst offenders despite having otherwise awesome specs. 50mm lugs like a huge letter H. And since that's their 'thing', you can't get any that don't look like that. I've seriously considered buying one and cutting the lugs down myself. Just modding the whole case roughly with a grinder. I think it would look really cool. I could drill my own holes for the springbars or do a makeshift kind of securing. One of the funnest parts about the affordability is not worrying about that stuff. I started scraping down my San Martin lugs with a file and I'm going to a buddy's machining shop to do a better job.
Any thoughts on the Tissot Heritage 1938? The purported accuracy seems appealing, but I'm not well-versed with movements to tell if it's a gimmick at that price range. Also, how does it compare to the Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical and Seiko 5?
$400 and houses a Sellita SW200Pretty cool and a good price for a watch with that movement.
just get a g shock
>>18691030Getting an 60 euro chang flieger, but can't decide if to get face A or B. What is the consensus on this on /fa/?
>>18691069>>18691072What exactly makes it a ladies watch
>>18691197Not a damned thing as far as I'm concerned. They just call them that. That was my point. The ladies one is thicker than the mens but both 40mm. They aren't ladies styled, just the smaller of two versions. Weirdly the actual Hamilton Murph the girl character from Interstellar had was 42mm, which is way too big for a girl or a kid. And it didn't really take off as a popular watch until the 38mm and then everyone wanted it. Watches like that don't look right being so big. It works with divers I guess. I don't really wear anything over 40mm. But my taste evolves all the time so who knows if that will always be the case.
>>18691150I don't care for sterile dials myself, but between the two I like the more traditional one on the left better. I really like the crowns and straps on both though. The blue hands are pretty neat too.
This has always been slightly loose so I removed one extra link and now it’s perfect. The link removal system on these is one of the coolest things about them. At like 1/6 inch you can really fine tune it.I never get sick of this watch.
I want one of these.
HAHAHA!The Poedagar Panerai for $13I should get one for laughs. I don't mind Poedagar. They're quite good for their price but I would never really wear them when I have better options to choose from. That's just funny that there's such a cheap homage of it. There's the Seakoss that looks decent for $100. Guess if you're really not sure about the Panerai and the Seakoss is also too much you can go Poedagar. So many color options too. How ever will I decide?
$135Can't believe real Pateks are half a million dollars. That makes Rolex look reasonable.
>>18691209Biggest mistake hamilton ever made was not releasing a smaller murph when the hype was at a fever pitch; they took YEARS to do it. What, a decade later? Stupid.I figure that the prop watch was 42mm because it needed to be as large as possible for screen purposes and to emphasize the size on her slender feminine wrist even more, aka "the boyfriend watch" effect.
How safe is it to buy second hand watches from popular online sites dedicated to 2nd hand watches?
>>18691403Between not safe at all and very safe.
Strella signalAbout 330 eurosWith crown 45mmHas a poljot movement with a vibrating buzzing nicknamed the “cricket”. Im kinda tempted with a fancy leather cuff black shiny leather. Itd be quite a pricey add-on.Thoughts? Im a fan of vintage. And itd be my most expensive watch.
>>18691468Oh the buzzing is the alarm function. Thats what the extra hand is for.Strella alarm signal.
>>18691041Most of those are pretty dope. Would look even better with new straps. I find vintage watch bracelets often look tacky
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>>18691106s2100bc is the best g shock they have made so far
>>18691399Yes, and that they had to make it bigger to add some thing that moved the seconds for the "communication" part also. And probably to kind of match Coop's watch side by side. I love the Murph 38 but most of the homages have better, shorter lug to lug at 1/10th the price. And the patina thing makes the legibility kind of weak.
>>18691403It's a crap shoot. Do your research and buy from trusted sellers. Ebay protects buyers but almost to a fault. I'd hate to be a frequent seller. I finally sold my Xeric retrograde jump hour but it sat for a couple months, ebay took a big cut, and I was shitting my pants worrying the buyer might pull a scam of some kind. I still lost money on the whole thing, but it's over now.I don't buy second hand watches aside from vintage stuff. I couldn't imagine wanting a watch someone else wore a couple years and scuffed and scratched and sweated in. Doesn't bug me with 60 year old watches like it does with modern ones.
>>1869146845mm is way too big for me but I love that case shape and I've always wanted an analog alarm watch. That is so badass that they had that cricket thing.And any newer watches with "striking" capabilities are super fucking expensive and out of reach for me.
>>18691474 ,and for >>18691403 too I guessYeah, I'd feel weird separating them from their original bracelets. I'm lucky they all fit pretty well. A couple of them the whole design doesn't really work without the bracelets they're attached to. The Seiko on the blue strap is a refurb with a bullshit dial. I won't fall for that again. And the Jean Cardot thing next to it in the top left is also a bullshit scam vintage frankenwatch. Notice it says day date but only has the date. That's on me for not catching it. There are dozens of used sellers just putting random fitting parts together and making their own fake, old timey looking dials. There are a bunch of vaguely 'vintage' $60-$80 'Seikos' from India and Pakistan that look cool until you realize they never existed. I almost bought one. Oftentimes they're "technically" a real Seiko or whatever it is. They'll get 100 damaged ones and just replace the faces and hands maybe. I never get too worried at the level I'm spending. I've not been badly burned. If the watch is actually broken or fraudulent you can always get your money back. I have not kept any watch I wasn't happy with. They work and look nice, just aren't the genuine article. And that's usually in the fine print anyway before you buy.
>>18691583AQ230s are criminally underrated.
>>18691044What do you pilot?
>Best Q-24 colorway>Women's watch
>>18691588My life.But that's a bullshit comment you made. You must not wear watches because I'll hit you with a few of those. Are you a diver? You don't play sports. You aren't dressed up. You're not in the "field". Dumbass. You know you want that Baltany.
I was on ebay and found these Montoir watches >>18691099 that are a microbrand from Kickstarter a couple years back. They have limited productions and I can get one for $249 with a coupon.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX6qYHMXlVQI'm thinking about the purple one. I don't have any purple watches. That's a smokin' deal for a watch with SW200. I love the simple clean dial with no date bullshit. I can live with the 48mm l2l and 40.5 case diameter. Their whole thing is advertising them for $500 on ebay and then redirecting you to their site.
>>18691575I've got a few nice vintage myself and they're all fit with new bands. They are either too small or straight up goofy otherwise. Keep the original ones in a box if you want but no point limiting yourself to the ones they came with. Chances are they aren't original to begin with, and most likely the og owners would probably swap bracelets once in a while anyway, so it's silly to keep them stubbornly
>>18691592Fuck it, ordered one anyway. Can't go wrong with a Q-24 even if it's a little smaller than 35mm.
>>18691653Good for you. The gender thing doesn’t matter. That’s a cool watch.
My new Swiss watch is pretty nice but I get why it was on sale. The butterfly clasp bracelet is nice but it squeaks. Can’t have that. So I’ll need to pair it with a really nice leather band; nicer one than anything I currently have. Or maybe a just a different steel bracelet, though it wouldn’t match as well.And it wears like a 40mm because there’s absolutely no bezel. It’s all dial to the edge. I love that I won’t need to keep it on my winder because of the power reserve.
39mm, $200I think Hesturs are really cool.
>>18691069>Lot of money for a quartz thoughhaha yeah gotta have that auto that makes the watch thicker and twice heavier and loses seconds and degrades till it needs to be serviced for half the cost of the watch itself haha it's really heritage then
>>18691656Usually a mechanical movement is the main reason for the cost though. Especially in $1,000 ones like Hamilton. Quartz movements unless highly specialized like the Precisionist or the Spring Drive are simple and inexpensive to produce. You can't put two similar watches (in design, finishing, etc) side by side at the same price and argue that it's okay for the quartz to cost as much. Not that I'd pay $500 for a watch anyway. I just posted those to prove everything in that price range isn't some "shitter".
>>18691759>>18691754meant for this
Cheapest indestructible watch?
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>>18691838You must be so proud. What app is that dial there?
>>18691837People will say G-Shock. I don't know if you really need that much durability. Nothing is indestructible.
>>18691843It’s the stock Apple Watch dial
>>1869183715 years of doing unspeakable things to it, still works
>>18691585Wear this on alligator leather. Trust me, people love it.
