How far from your average purchase was it?

Inspired by the “Luxury Watches vs. Index Funds on a Middle-Class Income: A Thought Exercise” thread.

Almost all of my watches are sub $500 buys. One or two pushed $700. But I don’t regret paying $1650 for my Mühle Glashütte, close to 4x my average purchase.

I actually use both complications on my Citizen eco-drive. My GMT hand is set to Berlin where my daughter lives. I use the dive bezel several times a week when I’m cooking. Now I’m considering going us a level to a nice automatic. Around $3k +/-? Here’s the required pics.

Seebattalion GMT. Perhaps not as elegant as I would like at this price.

Longines. I loved this when I saw it, but then I read a review that pointed out the six and nine…

I’m looking at watches with both GMT and a dive bezel

I put on one my Victorinox Infantry Vintage 241397 late last week to wear for a few days. For fun I synchronized it to the second with my laptop. Here we are, five days later, and it’s only slow by a single second. Simply astounding.

I think they look cheap. I doubt I’m the only one that feels this way. Even on a Rolex I looked at this weekend I thought “yuck”.

And that one is my grandfathers 1963 Hamilton he got for 25 years on the job. What’s the average ratio here? How many gold watches do other collectors have?

I don’t own one, but want one. I’m just fascinated by the ‘8’.