simon.r
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I'm looking for a slim, plain, white faced watch. Something like this, a Bering 13738-404 (catchy name!) but NOT battery operated. Budget is £100 ish.
Any thoughts?
Any thoughts?
If £100 is your budget for a watch then I would buy a Seiko 5 with the proven and bullet proof 7s26 automatic movement, the are superb classless wristwatches. You'd still have £25-35 left over but it would be worth more than the Bering if you wanted to move it on. Loads of white/silver faced models to choose from, I like the sporty Racer models but there are dress and military ones too.
I like that watch!If £100 is your budget for a watch then I would buy a Seiko 5 with the proven and bullet proof 7s26 automatic movement, the are superb classless wristwatches. You'd still have £25-35 left over, but it would be worth more than the Bering (fashion watch) if you wanted to move it on. Loads of white/silver faced models to choose from, I like the sporty Racer models but there are dress and military ones too.
How does that look remotely like the one he wants?
I like that watch!
It's been a lot of years since I had anything other than a battery operated quartz type of watch, as I like the fact that you can set the time and forget about having to adjust it apart from the twice a year changing of the clocks.
My memories of automatic watches from my youth was that they weren't very accurate. As in, they could lose or gain minutes every day. Has this improved in the last 35 years?
He said "something like this" not "exactly like this". He is not going to get a decent automatic watch like that, super slim, for £100.
I'm open to suggestions!
Re the accuracy of automatic watches - I have a cheap automatic Pulsar that's 4 or 5 years old and is accurate to within a minute of so every 2 or 3 months.
That's a bargain. Seiko automatic movements are among the very best.I'd suggest that the Bering is worth tuppence.
I have plenty of auto's and quartz, they all lose or gain time, but totally insignificant amounts, the Seiko 5 might be +/- 3 seconds a day! I know this because I have an atomic Casio () that receives an update from Frankfurt, that's the only watch I own that's always bang on "right" and I use it to set/adjust the auto's.
OP, if you want a super slim and stark looking watch like the Bering, but an automatic, then you'll struggle, unless you want to spend £k's on a Zenith. You'll lose the "slim" by needing case depth to accommodate the auto movement. Go careful, you can spend £100 and have a good watch or you can spend £100 and end up with a piece of junk.
If I had to sell all my watches and had £100 to spend on one watch, I'd buy the Seiko 5 and I'd be pretty pleased with it too.
For an alternative I think Mondaine takes some beating for classic Bauhaus simplicity, though a tad over budget.
If £100 is your budget for a watch then I would buy a Seiko 5 with the proven and bullet proof 7s26 automatic movement, the are superb classless wristwatches. You'd still have £25-35 left over, but it would be worth more than the Bering (fashion watch) if you wanted to move it on. Loads of white/silver faced models to choose from, I like the sporty Racer models but there are dress and military ones too.
In the last 35 years? Possibly. I wear my Dad's automatic Omega Constellation Chronometer. That gains about a minute every couple of months. It was bought in 1972........I like that watch!
It's been a lot of years since I had anything other than a battery operated quartz type of watch, as I like the fact that you can set the time and forget about having to adjust it apart from the twice a year changing of the clocks.
My memories of automatic watches from my youth was that they weren't very accurate. As in, they could lose or gain minutes every day. Has this improved in the last 35 years?