Cheapest "luxury" watch

[LS20]

Originally posted by: frankie38
I have been thinking about the same issue.

I have have been thinking that ORIS makes watches that fit into what I am looking for:

1) Swiss movement
2) European styling
3) History
4) Positive brand image
5) Affordable pricing
6) Everyday watch

http://www.oris.ch/english/index.html

my man! good call. i have an oris classic modern.. i wanted Swiss manufacture, mechanical movement (ETA), glassback, sapphire crystal, straps, and *slight* obscurity, and it was all of that.

cant go wrong with Oris. for very entry level, Tissots are what to look at... their entry level watches are swiss Quartz.

id rather these than mickey mouse dillards/macys/sams club 800$ movados and tags

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: MisterCornell
My $99 Skagen watch looks like a thousand bucks.

Same with mine...and it's light too 🙂

Most probably wouldn't consider it luxury though...

Mine on me...

 

[Tiamat]

get an engraved pocket watch. Problem solved!

They are so superficial, but thats the real world snobs for you.

Personally, I have never gotten off comments on my Citizen Ecodrive-chronograph watch (Titanium)

 

[MercenaryForHire]

1) Wear existing watch
2) Tell snooty uppity pole-smoking clients that it came from your dead grandfather/uncle/insert relative here
3) Watch them backpedal so fast they spill their Starbucks Low-Fat Espresso Latte all over their suit.
4) Profit

- M4H

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: HumblePie

Oris are very good watches as well. Although I recently saw in a the movie Constantine that Keanue Reeves (shudders) was wearing one as the camera did a close up on his watch while he was "dying" in the movie. Don't be set back that Keanue Reeves wears it. At least he has some taste in watches 😛 It was a nice Pie Pan Date set watch too.

Oris was one of the ones I PM'd the OP about along with others for his consideration.

(mine has brown reptile straps)

to be fair, they paid him some money or gave him the watch free so they could plug it on their website

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
1) Wear existing watch
2) Tell snooty uppity pole-smoking clients that it came from your dead grandfather/uncle/insert relative here
3) Watch them backpedal so fast they spill their Starbucks Low-Fat Espresso Latte all over their suit.
4) Profit

- M4H

:thumbsup:

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: HumblePie
Uhh... that was a hpothetical as I don't know off the top of my head from work the exact oscillation of a casio watch from walmart. But yes, oscillations in frequency can be measured with even more precision then tenths of a second per day. However, telling someone a watch oscillates by .00012 every second doesn't mean squat to most people, even people that usually know watches. So showing a better measure over a longer period of time, either daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, is what is typically shown if you actually go for the research of a particular watch beyond a brochure or a mall sales rep.

technically, in the watch world, oscillation frequency is a property of the crystal in quartz watches. you're talking about accuracy, which most quartz is by farrr better at than mechanical watches. quartz watches will typically have sub-second gain/loss per DAY, and mechanicals at around 5-10 seconds/day. handwatches are inaccurate, so they are almost always measured over days (not weeks or months or year)

there is probably no consumer watch--quartz or otherwise that can run as well as +/- .00012sec/day

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: LS20

Originally posted by: HumblePie
Uhh... that was a hpothetical as I don't know off the top of my head from work the exact oscillation of a casio watch from walmart. But yes, oscillations in frequency can be measured with even more precision then tenths of a second per day. However, telling someone a watch oscillates by .00012 every second doesn't mean squat to most people, even people that usually know watches. So showing a better measure over a longer period of time, either daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, is what is typically shown if you actually go for the research of a particular watch beyond a brochure or a mall sales rep.

technically, in the watch world, oscillation frequency is a property of the crystal in quartz watches. you're talking about accuracy, which most quartz is by farrr better at than mechanical watches. quartz watches will typically have sub-second gain/loss per DAY, and mechanicals at around 5-10 seconds/day. handwatches are inaccurate, so they are almost always measured over days (not weeks or months or year)

there is probably no consumer watch--quartz or otherwise that can run as well as +/- .00012sec/day

I've got to reset my watch once a week, or it'll be off by a whole MINUTE.

Oh Teh Fvcking NOES.

:roll:

- M4H

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire


I've got to reset my watch once a week, or it'll be off by a whole MINUTE.

Oh Teh Fvcking NOES.

:roll:

- M4H

why bother so often? i do my mechnical only once per month