What is your’Best Watch’ and how do you decide?
So do you go buy MSRP or how much you actually paid?
How about your ‘highest horology’ watch?
Perhaps certain ’fan boys’ would say a watch from their favorite brand?
Maybe it is the watch that you wear most often (after the honeymoon period).
I also could go by most complemented.
So mine could be my Girard Perregaux or Credor. It could be my Seiko SARB033. But if I go by complements per times worn, the clear top performer is my Invicta Pro Snoopy.
The Snoopy is for family theme park days, so I don’t wear it as often as most of my watches. But it gets lots of compliments when I do wear it. Perhaps it’s the environment of a theme park that generates a higher volume of attention. I’m not sure. But going by rate of complements, the Snoopy would be my best watch. 😂
Anyway; what is your’best’ watch and how do you decide?
The first watch I remember was a late 1970s automatic diver with a world time bezel. I was taking scuba lessons and my dad got it for me. I ended up with a PADI advanced open water qualification. So I...
I really enjoy all the watches in my collection. But if I had to rate one as ‘top’ it would have to be my Glashutte Original PanoMatic Lunar. I guess that qualifies as ‘highest horology’. It just so stunning to see and really is something special.
Obviously subjective…until I saw this from one of my watches
My best watch is my Movado that my wife bought me for our 20th Anniversary.
Most useful and comfortable
The one that took the most work to bring back to life. The more frustrated that I was while repairing it, the more proud that I am now. The best part is, that I have several that have been on my work bench for years, but I'm not going to give up, because they will be prized in the end!
Best specs and comfort
I buy my watches for me. My friends and family all find my hobby either uninteresting or downright weird. Outside of other watch nerds, I've maybe gotten 3 compliments on a watch I was wearing, and none of those were for my "nice" watches.
Consequently, my best watch is probably just the one I have the biggest crush on at the moment.
Right now that's my Citizen Barnacle, which isn't even close to being my most expensive. And it's in the damn shop right now, getting fixed because I dropped it on a wood floor. 😢
E. Most accurate.
I guess I'd go by quality for A) the purpose and B) the price point. My G-Shock 5610 is top quality for what it's supposed to do and at the price it's sold. So is my Grand Seiko Skyflake. Both are better than the other. So I guess I'd have many answers. 🙂
None of the above. The one I have the most sentimental attachment to.
E - and most obviously... the watch I like the most.
I guess I go by what I like the most. Regardless of price, horology, or most complemented. I buy what appeals to me regardless of what others think.
I enjoy all of them but I guess my best watch would be my gshock as it brings most in price to performance & joy ratio. I guess second best would be my 1951 oyster precision ref 6024 for the rarity.
The one that makes me happiest when I wear it.
The one I like the most.
Right now, I like textured dials, polished surfaces, and low maintenance movements.
My “best” watch doesn’t fit into any options you laid out. Price and high horology doesn’t make me feel like I should wear a certain watch more than others. I don’t wear any watch and expect compliments for validation . If I buy a watch that’s in high demand, it’s because there’s something else I like about it, I’m not buying it because it’s popular.
Such a (deliberately? 😜) provocative question. I say none of the above. My "Best Watch" is a low MSRP, low horology, rarely complemented, slightly shabby looking Seiko.
I go by the one I like to wear the most… it’s not the most expensive I own and is probably one of the simplest but it’s also a bit of anomaly so watch nerds always comment on it
Most wrist time
I'd say... None of the above. While the starting point may be closer to the above options, it's more like getting a 500 bucks watch for 100... A Great Deal is more my kinda thing.
Of course, it has to start witha look. I don't really care about the brand, so it's more about how much I like the make, quality, movement n most crucially, comfort. I like a watch witha great fit n that it rests really comfortably on my wrist...
Like my Mako 2. I didn't even realised that it had 22mm metal bracelet when I first got it at 100 bucks, preloved but in pristine condition then. But when I wore it, mannn...
The fit n comfort, was unbeatable.
E - and most obviously... the watch I like the most.
Came to say this
Anytime I see folks talk about their watch being complimented, unless is being complimented by another WIS, I generally call bullsh*t.
None of the above, sentimental value as mentioned already. Not sure how that one was left out compared to most hyped and complemented🤔
It’s the one that is best at what it’s designed to do I think.
I’m sure loads of people will have said this but I don’t think, no matter how many watches I end up owning, I’ll have a better watch than the G-Shock 5610 - charming, utilitarian and accessibile to most.
For me, watches shouldn’t be about elitism and ostentatious displays of wealth so understated is the way to go.
None of the above.
I have a few favourites: one is an old Seiko kinetic that my parents bought me many years ago. Doesn't work any more though.
The next three are the ones my wife bought me: a Seiko g shock, a tag Heuer, a DKNY (now lost). All of them are 15+ years old.
My next two are a Seiko 5 and a Casio G shock 2100.
Well, that's my entire watch collection! So I guess they are all my favourites!
My “best” watch is the one I want to wear the most. It would be a battle between my Doxa and my Marathon bu the Doxa will always win because of the memories baked into it.
The one you wear the most
The one I look most fancy :)
Best watch depends on who is asking. Anyone in my family who might tell my wife, it’s my 2 toned wedding DJ that I got from my in-laws and was my only watch for 2 decades (and probably worn for at least the birth of one of my kids but I wasn’t a watch guy back then and had other things on my mind running to the hospital than making sure I would make a memory with my watch). Plus, I’m not sure I’d still be married if I tried to get my watch in frame with my newborn/wife.
In my heart and to watch people, it would be my grail Speedy that I wanted almost my whole life (growing up in Houston during the Apollo era) but only got late in life. It’s still my favorite and therefore best (?) watch and researching its purchase got me into this crazy, often expensive but truly my favorite hobby.
My personal favorites are not the most complimented, most expensive, or most well known brand. They’re the ones that just speak to me the most
That's pretty easy for me, it's the Speedmaster.
While other watches may be more expensive, have titanium, or a super accurate movement, the Speedmaster is THE Watch in my Collection, because it is THE Watch. Not even a Submariner could compete, or even most Patek/AP/VC Watches. Sure the Overseas looks amazing, and is from a high horology brand. But that's about it with the history of an Overseas?
No other watch timed an emergency burn in a spaceship!
tbh. the only (for me affordable) watches that would beat a Speedmaster would be a Cartier Santos, or a JLC Reverso. Because of their History, and the time they endured in the market.