u/TheFlyingPancake3

• No sombra hack no care.
• Hog hook nerfed badly.
• Tons of people got nerfed. Ball had no change- he just has to worry about Cass stun and Mizuki chain. That's it.

Yum yum.

I'm looking for a perfect dressy-sporty mechanical bracelet watch. I'm currently in love with the Tissot Gentleman 40mm.

The last pic shows my current budget collection. I'm lucky to have several different types of watches and the budget daydate rolex Tissot will fill the gap nicely.

In terms of what I'm looking for, I'm not seeing any contenders even at a $3,000 budget.

• Not interested in Seiko, already got the beautiful GMT SSK orange.
• Not interested in leather straps, need bracelet.
• Longines is triple the price, and their Spirit pilot is ok. I initially liked their Master Collection Light Blue, but I think the Tissot overall looks cleaner and I'm not seeing why I'm paying 4x more for some marginally better polishing.

Just making sure I'm not missing anything else before I pull the trigger.

I have a lot of sentimental value for this watch. It was early in my college career. I didn't know about watches and spending $525 was a lot back 18 years ago.

It's a quartz chronograph and then research tells me it's swiss made through Fossil before it was discontinued. The original leather strap was very high quality. The crystal is sapphire and you can tell because only the bezel has tons of scratches.

It wears best in a formal attire to be honest.

Thanks for reading.

• The Patek advisor was extremely friendly, and we clicked right away. She urged me to try on that $80K piece.
• I went back to Omega. I like that store—it's uber friendly. I tried on the dressy Omega black lacquer dial ($7.5K). This is kind of competing with the Rolex OP?
• The Rolex Datejust is nice. Very old school. The fluted bezel is nice too, but I actually prefer the daily style Oyster. Too bad the black or the blue is in so much demand!
• The Nomos german watchmaker is fun.
• The Longines Master Collection Chrono Moon phase is only $4,300? Wow!
• I got to try the Tissot Gentleman. A fine watch in both strap and bracelet. PRX in teal is super poppy retro-modern fun.

Rolex had the worst attitude (a bit dismissive), more than the much more expensive Vacheron Constantin and Patek.

FYI, I am 5'10" avg dude with 7.5" wrist

• Brietling folks were super kind and even butt-kissy. Served me a coffee and all. They were happy to showcase their Navimeter and the Ashton Martin collab piece.
• Macy's had an impressive section full of Tissot, Longines, Hamilton, Seiko, etc. The Murph actually looks gorgeous in person. Tissot PRX looks far better and bigger in person. The gentleman looked solid as well.
• Rolex had the most snooty experience. The advisor was very stiff and dismissive. When I talked about my work in IT, he finally opened up. I felt like I had to 'earn' his business... The OP beige one was nice. I got on the list for the Blue & Black. To be honest, I didn't gravitate towards them too much. OP is clean but seemed like I'm just paying for the logo & prestiege.
• Omega was right next door and they were super friendly like a mall counter. Nothing like Rolex. They kept asking me to try different pieces. The Seamaster in person is gorgeous.
• VC experience was super pleasant. I told him my range for this xmas is $15K. I was completely priced out but he was super engaging and he even let me try on the $60,000 black skeletal piece (my phone died). VC didn't even have 98734 staff members like Rolex did while selling 5x the price. https://www.vacheron-constantin.com/us/en/collections/traditionnelle/4020t-000g-b655.html
• IWC was also fun. The lady was super helpful. They're just not my style too much.

I'm really digging the Seamaster and Omega a bit more than Rolex. The Datejust and Oyster Perpetual seemed rather 'standard' and didn't pop.

10/10.

I love it very much. It's unfitted since i have to actually order a hammer kit to humanly push the pins.

I did not expect that it has a metallic sheen rather than a sunburst. But they sure pop!

It is quite bulky. The heft rivals my G shock.

I expected this watch to be a fashionable beater but it's just so nice and shiny. This would be a great fall and summer watch too!

I'm all about the dials and they're gorgeous.

I bought my very first automatic watch. Hamilton Khaki Automatic 42mm blue with the brown stitched strap.

I wanted it to be special so I opened it in front of my wife and my preteen kids together.

They were oohing at first. As I was admiring it, I naturally started to talk about the field watches in the world war and how hamilton pioneered them and then the quartz crisis came which cornered them to solely rely on the recently acquired Swiss factories. Now its a fine swiss maker. I mean i had to mention the quartz crisis right? How could I not? That means i have to mention Seiko too

In the middle of my chat, i saw my wife laughing at me and punched me in the arm saying what are you doing???

Then my kids laughed too.

Then for some unknown reason, they magically coordinated and vacated my room laughing, all within 5 seconds.

No one cares about your watches.

Just checking before i pull the trigger at $330 at jomashop

Citizen has one, but my collection needs a more sporty look.

The Orient has one? But they seem to be discontinued or no longer easily found? The face didn't seem radiant based on light like the Seiko.

What else? I think this is as good as it gets, considering the SSK series is already popular orange or not.

Please share, thanks.

1. Burberry BU1327 Swiss Made quartz. This 18 years-old OG dressy king is just classy before getting into watches. Probably most expensive too at $550 two decades ago.

2. Hamilton Khaki Field Automatic 42mm: my first full-blown swiss watch. Love the field watch inspiration. This can be daily & formal.

3. A beater 10 year old Skagen Signatur and its Scandinavian minimalism is my daily too. Retails for $100-125. Got it for $40 new Black Friday

4. New G-shock GA2100 for working out / touching grass (and the returned Seiko SUR525)

5. You gotta round it all out with an orange burst dial Seiko 5 sports GMT with a jubilee bracelet. I gotta have a piece of Seiko history and a proper bracelet GMT / diver watch.

What do you think guys? Please be gentle, just got into it a week ago.

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