What watch do you wear?

£100 > £1500-£2000 ish

All you get is either a quartz watch see Tag as a good example here.

or you get a ETA or Chinese movement with generic parts mass produced.

The only time its worth spending money on a watch is when you are looking at brands with a long history of watch making with in house movements and preferably hand made. However, Rolex bucks this trend a bit as they are mass produced but have such a strong brand that it doesn't matter. They are in house. Best value on the used market.

My point is the jump in quality comes when you bin off you Citizen Eco Drive and go for an in house, Swiss piece i.e. a used Rolex or Jaeger Le Coultre, etc, at which point you are spending at least £2.5-£3.5k.

So why bother spending £500 on trash? That is the same as a £100 watch...
 
There is more to a watch that just the movement though.

Materials, design, weight, brand, presentation - people value these items and therefore pay for them.
 
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If you spend £400 on a Quartz watch then you get a more special watch than if you just spent £100, because of improved items as I mentioned above.
 
craptakular said:
lol really, you think so? £400 worth?
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I know so... Because I have 4 of them and can see and feel the difference. The movement may be the same but the materials, design, weight and packaging are all better on the more costly watches.

Going by your way of thinking...put the most special in house movement in the cheapest, nastiest, ugliest watch ever and you have the perfect watch.

NO !!

... Because a watch is more than the movement. Just like a car is more than the engine :)
 
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craptakular, your are presenting a false dichotomy, therefore any further discussion is invalid, your point is also invalid as the false dichotomy exists only in your head.

as others have demonstrated they disagree with you, as does 99.9% of watch guys I know, I have sat in company with watches on the table worth over £1 million pounds, all of those guys sitting with rare Pateks and Milsubs have watches in their collection in that price bracket, because they understand that a hobby like watch collecting has masterpieces of design and elegance at every price point.

its one of the things that makes this hobby fun for people of all wealth classes, you dont need to be rich to enjoy it and share your collection.
 
lol I never said that... I was paraphrasing so I don't have to type a book out each response.

I thought that would have been obvious.

Good luck with you trinkets, I'm done. I've said my piece I really don't care what anyone buys, I know that I laugh inside when someone shows me their quartz Tag or gash Longines.
 
Gents,

I've unfortunately dropped my Seiko SARB065 "cocktail time" and despite minimal cosmetic damage, it now gains like 8 minutes a day so needs looking at :( should I be sending this to Seiko or is there an independent repairer worth considering?

Thanks!
 
Soundood said:
all of those guys sitting with rare Pateks and Milsubs have watches in their collection in that price bracket, because they understand that a hobby like watch collecting has masterpieces of design and elegance at every price point.
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This 100%, I have a large number of watches in various price brackets however nothing mega expensive (although that's subjective), but I do have a number of close friends who have some very expensive pieces (£30-40k) yet they still get excited with new purchases in the £100-500 range, they appreciate all the various aspects of a watch and clearly contradict craptakulars views.

IMHO a watch snob/idiot is someone who thinks you have to spend a set amount or buy a particular brand.
 
craptakular said:
I know that I laugh inside when someone shows me their quartz Tag or gash Longines.
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this statement has said it all for me, how dare you 'laugh inside' at anyone because of a choice they have made in regards to anything, let alone something as singular as taste and design.

laugh inside at this, I have around 8 watches in the £100-£500 price bracket, I also have another 6 or so in the £4K - £8K bracket, and finally I have a couple in the £10-£15K bracket.

I pride myself in this, as my hobby is not governed by money, and have chatted at length about cheaper watches with people, and what they bring to the table, price is no indication of quality.

your collection and understanding of watches will never have a mark on me, and using your attitude, this means you are nothing to me, nada, nil pwa.

as to anyone else, nothing excites me more in this hobby than seeing a youngster or someone new to this hobby showing me their watch (regardless of cost) and descibing to me what 'they love' about it and what it means to them.
 
Exactly, people spend £1k+ on Quartz Tags because they want a slice of the Motorsport partnership going back to the 60's.
 
SDK^ said:
Craptakular - what watches do you have?
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If he doesn't have a series of Patek Phillipe £50k + watches or similar price bracket and not your run of the mill Rolex / Omega gash watches then I'll be laughing inside ;)

Not that I'm a snob or anything!
 
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