Please recommend a < $100 watch for this band!

Hey all:

I purchased the deployant clasp & strap combo pictured below after seeing it on a friend’s Breitling Navitimer 01, and really do like the fit and comfort of it.

However, as I don’t have Breitling money at the moment, I’m looking for a relatively versatile watch to keep at my desk and snap on (once I’ve taken off my Garmin, hehe).

The watch must have 22mm lugs, and likely not a diver’s watch since the spring bars would be too thick for the band. I would have liked an Android…

Please recommend a < $100 watch for this band!

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Affordable beater experiment

This topic has been beat to death but I wanted to add my own experiment. Why you ask? Because I want trust autos to take a beating and keep working accurately. At work I have to meet multiple time lines a day within a 10 second window AND I work in an environment that’s hard on everything. All those factors considered I’ve always worn quartz watches and I’ve never been let down (except by my old Marathon TSAR; i really hate Marathon). Last year I got a wild hair and decided to get a…

Affordable beater experiment

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What are your thoughts on the new Meridian Portland from Vero?

Looks like Vero have released a new version of their Meridian series called the Portland. The previous Rally version didn’t do much for me but this one seems right up my alley. I reached out to the brand about the hands as they look heat blued in the pictures but apparently they are electroplated blue and polished. I’m a sucker for heat blued but these still look good to me. I’ve read nothing but good things about the brand here and on Reddit. What are your thoughts about this new…

What are your thoughts on the new Meridian Portland from Vero?

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