Budget Mechanical Watches
Posted by: i am simon 2 on 28 February 2006
I have just ordered another Seiko (a Samurai Divers) from the far east, the only place it seems that continue to produce quality but affordable mech watches.
My latest purchase is one of these:
Mechanical, automatic and made of titanium for under £200.
Since discovering these seikos, I have not purchased what I would normaly refer to as a Proper Watch, ie, swiss mechanical watches that seem to cost circa £2K upwards, as discussed on the recent watch thread.
I get 99% of the satisfaction of owning say a Jaeger Le Coultre from owning the seikos, and at the low prices, they are almost affordable as impulse buys, (as was the above).
As well as new ones, there is also a good range of vintage seikos availible at modest prices, my favorite being the Bullhead, like this:
Which was a present from my Wife.
(this is not my one but similar)
Anyone else on the forum interested in Jap watches? And are there other sources of cheap mech watches other than Seiko/Citizen?
Simon
My latest purchase is one of these:
Mechanical, automatic and made of titanium for under £200.
Since discovering these seikos, I have not purchased what I would normaly refer to as a Proper Watch, ie, swiss mechanical watches that seem to cost circa £2K upwards, as discussed on the recent watch thread.
I get 99% of the satisfaction of owning say a Jaeger Le Coultre from owning the seikos, and at the low prices, they are almost affordable as impulse buys, (as was the above).
As well as new ones, there is also a good range of vintage seikos availible at modest prices, my favorite being the Bullhead, like this:
Which was a present from my Wife.
(this is not my one but similar)
Anyone else on the forum interested in Jap watches? And are there other sources of cheap mech watches other than Seiko/Citizen?
Simon
Hi, that's a nice watch. I've recently taken to solar-powered Seiko diver's watches.
A UK site with alternative, reasonably priced mechanical watches is:
http://www.timefactors.com/index.html
Watches released for the Japanese market can be purchased from:
http://www.higuchi-inc.com/index-e.html
My titanium diver's is this one:
Nick
A UK site with alternative, reasonably priced mechanical watches is:
http://www.timefactors.com/index.html
Watches released for the Japanese market can be purchased from:
http://www.higuchi-inc.com/index-e.html
My titanium diver's is this one:
Nick
Paul
I will post a report once it arrives - any day now hopefully. In respect of the bracelet, I thought long and hard about this, but in the end I thought I already have another seiko diver (one of these)
with a metal bracelet and it also saved me a few quid so I went for the rubber strap.
However I have since emailed the dealer in singapore asking for a price for the Ti bracelet, he says it is $80US but is out of stock for a couple of months. I guess I will wait till they are back in stock and see if I still want the Ti braclet as well.
By all accounts I have read that the solid Ti strap is worth the extra as it is so well made.
Kind regards
Simon
I will post a report once it arrives - any day now hopefully. In respect of the bracelet, I thought long and hard about this, but in the end I thought I already have another seiko diver (one of these)
with a metal bracelet and it also saved me a few quid so I went for the rubber strap.
However I have since emailed the dealer in singapore asking for a price for the Ti bracelet, he says it is $80US but is out of stock for a couple of months. I guess I will wait till they are back in stock and see if I still want the Ti braclet as well.
By all accounts I have read that the solid Ti strap is worth the extra as it is so well made.
Kind regards
Simon
quote:Originally posted by nicnaim:
At the risk of stating the obvious, have you been in touch with Seiko direct.
No
Admittedly my digging pretty much consisted of eBay and Google though.Thanks for the address and phone no.
Paul
Whoops! I just bought this one as well!
This is what happens when I am left on my own for a few days - The wife is out of the country on business - sitting in front of the TV and I think I'll just see what other watches I like the look of. And as it was on that famous auction site, I thought I will bid £100 including postage and probably wont win it but it seems once more that Powersipe was on the money.
Kind regards
Simon
This is what happens when I am left on my own for a few days - The wife is out of the country on business - sitting in front of the TV and I think I'll just see what other watches I like the look of. And as it was on that famous auction site, I thought I will bid £100 including postage and probably wont win it but it seems once more that Powersipe was on the money.
Kind regards
Simon