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Help me decide on a watch

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    #32
    blindsider
    Registered Users Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭blindsider


    A Seiko 5 should be in everyone's collection!

    Nice example - clear and legible - also like the red tip on the second hand!


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    #33
    Pablo_Flox
    Registered Users Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Pablo_Flox


    I like that Seiko. Very sporty looking


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    #34
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,226 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    aristotle25 wrote: »
    Thanks for all the pointers and opinions. I have received the first of two watches I have bought.

    Its far from earth shattering and right at the budget end but I went for nice Seiko automatic - https://ibb.co/NFjLST9

    It has day\date, an easy to read dial and generally looks dark the way I like. The nato strap it came with is pretty poor (feels rough) as I expected so I am ordering some new ones and a nice leather one too.

    Its 42mm which suits, I had bought a 38mm seiko (slightly different face) but returned it as it was too small.

    Someone said I could think of buying a few different watches rather than spend 1000 or whatever on one watch and that made a lot of sense to me. And as I am just starting I need to learn a bit more on what I should buy towards that type of money.

    Sinn still on my wish list though.

    I think it's a wise decision, buy a few different ones. A formal wear watch is nice to have too.


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    #35
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,030 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    aristotle25 wrote: »
    Thanks for all the pointers and opinions. I have received the first of two watches I have bought.

    Its far from earth shattering and right at the budget end but I went for nice Seiko automatic - https://ibb.co/NFjLST9

    It has day\date, an easy to read dial and generally looks dark the way I like. The nato strap it came with is pretty poor (feels rough) as I expected so I am ordering some new ones and a nice leather one too.

    Its 42mm which suits, I had bought a 38mm seiko (slightly different face) but returned it as it was too small.

    Someone said I could think of buying a few different watches rather than spend 1000 or whatever on one watch and that made a lot of sense to me. And as I am just starting I need to learn a bit more on what I should buy towards that type of money.

    Sinn still on my wish list though.

    what Seiko model is that?
    And what was the 38mm model number?


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    #36
    hitemfrank
    Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭hitemfrank


    NIMAN wrote: »
    what Seiko model is that?
    And what was the 38mm model number?

    Looks like the SNZG15K1.


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    #37
    aristotle25
    Registered Users Posts: 687 ✭✭✭aristotle25


    Yeh thats it, the 38mm one was the SNK809.


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    #38
    CalamariFritti
    Registered Users Posts: 5,419 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Our taste in watches must be similar, cos I was between those two myself. I went with the bigger one, too. I'm wearing it right now. Got the J1 version but I dont think there is any real difference.

    Its amazing how some Seikos seem to go in and out fashion and in again. On Reddit they're asking for $700 plus for SARB017 at the moment. There is a blue version of that too, same money. Both very nice, but when they were still easily available from new I dont think they were all that much dearer then SNZG15K1.


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    #39
    aristotle25
    Registered Users Posts: 687 ✭✭✭aristotle25


    Received the second watch I bought.

    It's a chronograph from Straton Watches which caught my eye, it has a quartz seiko movement. I just liked the look and it looks good on different straps, just a nice fun watch for the weekend :) Supposedly a driver inspired design...

    https://ibb.co/37fv9W7
    https://ibb.co/cTgMSnM
    https://ibb.co/G9ZFm8B

    Also put a better strap on the seiko, a good strap really changes a watch.
    https://ibb.co/477brfc

    Thats it, done with buying watches for the rest of the year!


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