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@lae
Cripes, the best I've got is a Dualit toaster for a fiver.
I'd like to buy my fiancée a new watch. I bought her a watch about a year ago but it's stopped working. It's a Sekonda, made in the USSR so an old one - a tiny 17mm-ish gold square watch with a mother-of-pearl face and ruby strap. When it's wound it just makes a horrible clonking noise and I don't think it's economical to repair it - the couple of watch shops I've been to have stated minimum £40 to service it, plus labour to fix the unknown issue.
Can anyone recommend a similar looking watch for about £100-£150? I can find literally nothing new but I'm very happy to go secondhand, preferably quartz but mechanical considered if it's something reliable.
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If anyone's interested, I went for a Timex Expedition T40091 for my "I'm definitely going to smash this against a rock at some point, but still quite handsome" hiking/scrambling/outdoorsing watch.
It was advertised as having a black face, water and shock resistance - it turned up and has a dark grey face and no markings pertaining to shock resistance - but for £25 (a tenth of the value of the watch that I was wearing) I'm not bothered. The strap is awful but I have acquired another offcut of leather to make a strap and a protective flip-up cap for it, now that I finally have some free time.