Updated 16 April 2014
I recently wrote a post on getting your complete watch set for under £1000. I focussed on the Japanese brands and selected four models which I felt were really good, packed with loads of features (maybe apart from the dress watch). However, this made me wonder whether I would be able to come up with a similar collection of nice Swiss watches comprising of the three major styles of watches, namely i) Diver, ii) Aviator & iii) Dress watches and of course, one Banger watch which you can wear everyday.
There were some great deals around and Amazon UK seems to offer the maximum choices with some amazing discounts. So here is my Swiss watch collection:
1. Diver: Wenger Aquagraph
The Aquagraph retails at £340.00 but is available on Amazon UK for only £272.00
This quartz diver watch from Wenger (better known for their Swiss Army knives), is water resistant to 1000m, yes you read right - not 100m or 200m or even 300m but upto 1000m. Though I am not sure how many dive to those depths but it is nice to know that you have a watch which can.
Here are the main features and specs:
2. Aviator: Victorinox SAF Airboss Mach 1 V.25091
RRP: £320.13 (No discounts when I last checked).
This aviator style automatic watch is from Victorinox, the owner of the famous Swiss Army knives but now making fabulous watches as well. It is an automatic watch with a black dial.
Features and specifications:
By now, we have used up more than half of our budget (a total of £660.13) which leaves us with only £339.87 for the dress and banger watches. So I am going to cheat a bit and go with the discounted prices. So, taking the Amazon discounted prices, we have spent a total of £592.13 which leaves us with £407.87 for the 2 other watches (much better).
3. Dress Watch: Tissot Visodate T0194301605101
RRP: £650.00 but now available at only £373.24 on Amazon UK.
This is an automatic watch from my favourite Swiss watch brand. It is one of the oldest in the World as well. A nice classic design with their old logo.
Specifications and features:
If we were to go by the retail price, we have exceeded the budget (total of £1310.13). Even if we take the discounted prices we only have £34.63 which is not enough to buy a decent watch. Fact: Swiss watches are costly.
Just in case you are wondering whether it is possible to buy a Swiss made watch for £34 and less. The answer is a big "Yes!".
Swatch Once Again retails for only £32.
Swatch Watch Again (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license: Khalid Mahmood)
This nice and simple medium sized (Case : Ø 34mm T : 8.75mm) Swatch watch is made of plastic. It is a quartz watch with day and date and is water resistant to 30m.
Who says you cannot have a complete set of good Swiss watches for less than £1000.
NOTE: Prices are correct as of 12 April, 2014.
I recently wrote a post on getting your complete watch set for under £1000. I focussed on the Japanese brands and selected four models which I felt were really good, packed with loads of features (maybe apart from the dress watch). However, this made me wonder whether I would be able to come up with a similar collection of nice Swiss watches comprising of the three major styles of watches, namely i) Diver, ii) Aviator & iii) Dress watches and of course, one Banger watch which you can wear everyday.
There were some great deals around and Amazon UK seems to offer the maximum choices with some amazing discounts. So here is my Swiss watch collection:
1. Diver: Wenger Aquagraph
The Aquagraph retails at £340.00 but is available on Amazon UK for only £272.00
Here are the main features and specs:
- Case Material: Stainless steel
- Sapphire crystal
- Case Diameter: 43 millimetres
- Case Thickness: 15.00
2. Aviator: Victorinox SAF Airboss Mach 1 V.25091
RRP: £320.13 (No discounts when I last checked).
This aviator style automatic watch is from Victorinox, the owner of the famous Swiss Army knives but now making fabulous watches as well. It is an automatic watch with a black dial.
- Sapphire crystal
- Stainless Steel Case with a leather strap
- Water Resistant to 100 metres
- Case Diameter 41 millimetres
- Case Thickness 12 millimetres
By now, we have used up more than half of our budget (a total of £660.13) which leaves us with only £339.87 for the dress and banger watches. So I am going to cheat a bit and go with the discounted prices. So, taking the Amazon discounted prices, we have spent a total of £592.13 which leaves us with £407.87 for the 2 other watches (much better).
3. Dress Watch: Tissot Visodate T0194301605101
RRP: £650.00 but now available at only £373.24 on Amazon UK.
This is an automatic watch from my favourite Swiss watch brand. It is one of the oldest in the World as well. A nice classic design with their old logo.
Specifications and features:
- Sapphire crystal with antireflective coating.
- 42mm Case Diameter
- Water resistant to 30 meters.
- Case Diameter 42 millimetres
- Case Thickness 12 millimetres
- Leather strap with deployment push button clasp with buckle (which is a big deal)
If we were to go by the retail price, we have exceeded the budget (total of £1310.13). Even if we take the discounted prices we only have £34.63 which is not enough to buy a decent watch. Fact: Swiss watches are costly.
Just in case you are wondering whether it is possible to buy a Swiss made watch for £34 and less. The answer is a big "Yes!".
Swatch Once Again retails for only £32.
This nice and simple medium sized (Case : Ø 34mm T : 8.75mm) Swatch watch is made of plastic. It is a quartz watch with day and date and is water resistant to 30m.
Who says you cannot have a complete set of good Swiss watches for less than £1000.
NOTE: Prices are correct as of 12 April, 2014.
1 comment:
Like this one, recently out of work, going to buy a watch to wear, more like Emporio Armani watch, many styles but I do not know that a good election, we help to the point. ^ _ ^
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