What time is it? Watches and horology

Also if anyone is after a Tudor Heritage chrono I have a bit of a bargain at mo.....

My wife is looking for a new watch, perhaps someone can help recommend one.

Requirements:

• male dress watch, but not too large
  
• a white/cream face and classic design
  
• highly readable (hand contrast against face good, numerals easy to read, etc)
  
• leather strap, ideally brown
  
• budget of up to £500 (so quartz acceptable)
  
• durable enough to take some knocks (occasionally gets thrown into her rucksack)
  

Quartz Max bill?

Someone's got one for sale on here

I just showed her and she said... nope.

She kinda liked a Christopher Ward (the strap was classically cut and mid-brown)), and half considered a Longine face (but hated the strap).

I wouldn't focus too much on the strap, you can switch it out for something you like

Maybe this? Nice and small, 36 mm. You'll still have change for a sweet leather strap

I’m sure you can find a Seiko or two that fit those requirements.

That's where we just got to over coffee 😊

this

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or this

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Timex Marlin, 34mm. Manual wind. Classic. Silver dial. Easy to read . Less than 150 squids.

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The 40mm automatic Marlin is also the sex and about £200

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durable enough to take some knocks (occasionally gets thrown into her rucksack)

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Because the lume dots are misaligned, the 24 hour numerals are off centre, and the date window is an abomination?

How on Earth have I still got this ?

Because you also sell Speedmasters.

Edit @regal ha!

Might be worth checking out Baume & Mercier's new "younger" offshoot, Baume. You can customise them to an extent.

https://www.baumewatches.com/

eg

https://www.baumewatches.com/en-ch/custom-timepieces-BMBC000060.html

Talking of lume, this 1965 Max Bill is for sale on OF, wish I wasn’t skint.

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lol, I think your answer gets to the nub of it.

Because you also sell Speedmasters.

this ^ x100

The problem with that breitling is that it's trying to do everything. Chronograph, GMT, date, guilloche dial. They also couldn't make it larger than the regular (non-GMT) Transocean which is 43mm, so have ended up with a case height of almost 16mm. It's a nice in-house movement but honestly most Breitling buyers are more interested in whether their watch matches their Bentley or not rather than jizzing over the movement.

Put that against a Speedmaster Pro with a 14mm height and there's no question which is more comfortable to wear / nicer to look at. And I don't even like speedmasters :)

I’ll happily take that Racing MkII off your hands then ;)

We have a winner.

Thank you

Georges Kern is sorting Breitling out now and the Navitimer 8 is a nice collection. They've just been stuck in the '90s for far too long, making horrible, oversized, flashy, shit watches and trying to sell them with black & white photos of Brad Pitt in a tuxedo.

Nice one, no problem. Just check the sizing out because the designs are unisex but I think the sizes are either 35mm or 41mm. Nothing in between.

lol - yeah that piece is stunning. @ejay2.0 has first dibs but I might let it go to fund something else I have my eye on.

edit: Nah, I can't do it!

Well Heuer prices seem to be flatlining maybe the right Rindt will prompt a Freddo flash sale. 🤞