This thread is about the appreciation of watches, as well as the micro-engineering and materials engineering that are required to make a fine watch, clock, or other timepiece.
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# You sound like you don’t know enough about watches to understand what you’re doing and just trying to build your case on opinions of other anons. I suggest you dip your toes into the lower end of the market, buy a cheaper watch, read up, see what you like and what you don’t, then maybe try out a couple more watches while researching what interests you. In a couple of years you will have your own fully formed taste. But if you just want to get a decent watch for 5k then Omega is nowhere near the worst choices. I’d still go for a used polar Explorer though
Actually, I hadn't thought of that. You might want to get a cheap Seiko automatic, cheap microbrand Miyota, or an Orient and see if you even care about the watch being automatic or even in house or not. Because if all you want is quartz then you cap out on the likes of The Citizen, Credor, Grand Seiko, Omega X-33, Longines VHP, Certina DS 2, then divers like the Seiko Marinemaster and Sinn U1.
>Jaeger LeCoultre's entry level models I like this brand and their designs. But the store I would likely buy from take 7000 for this model right here with black or white dial, which is the cheapest they sell. I mean, that is too expensive, and it's also very dull in design/finish compared to what I'd expect when I pay 7000. What other models do you speak of that are cheaper than this?
I've had cheaper 400-watches and expensive 4000-watches my whole life, but I haven't really had a nerdy interest for watches until recently when I started considering buying some own watches with my own money. I haven't been thinking about these things a lot before, but now I do care about it all the sudden, eventho I'm not particularly knowledgable about it. It's kind of new for me to pay this much thought into watches. I would buy an explorer if Rolex as a brand didn't incur so much disdain among people here.
