So you don’t have the money to buy an Omega or a Rolex, but you want a nice watch…
No problem. Don’t buy a fake, buy a real watch. Here is a little selection of affordable watches that look great.
Stowa
A favourite of mine is Stowa – producing stunning looking watches at affordable prices.
This Stowa Antea can be yours for EUR 650.
Junghans
Junghans offers timeless classics that are simply beautiful.
Believe it or not, £540 get you this watch. About twice the price of a crummy fake. No comparison.
Check out this great chronograph:
Yours for £1200. A real chronograph.
Christopher Ward
CW has a nice selection of affordable watches with a nice Swiss-made movement.
£560 for this diver’s watch.
Or £460 for this one. Not bad, ey?
So, ditch your fake, and get yourself a real watch. Nothing more embarrassing than getting caught wearing a fake!
I don’t judge someone’s pride and joy on ££££ it’s the joy that watch does for them so on that note I love
christian! some of the images are broken! btw good list. whats your thoughts on the old soviet watches, like poljot and slava?
Oh dear – that’s Christopher Ward moving the images on their web site 😉
I very much like Poljots, Luchs, and Slavas. Very good value for money.
Link to the ones on the CW Forum archive – they aren’t going anywhere 🙂
http://www.christopherwardforum.com/archives/index.php?cat=12
wow beautiful CW’s! I like the history behind the vintage watches
Hi Brian,
Just copied them over from the forum – that should fix it. Thanks for th link!
I was on a lads holiday in 2001 in Kavos and having some left over
money on the last day I purchased
a fake Rolex it looked good to me and it worked however about 3 mths later back home it just broke
I didn’t really mind but it was still £200 down the drain and to be fair
I was not into watches really back then not like now, and the idea of spending thousands was a no go,
but now I do spend a bit on watches.
I can confirm I do have
Christopher Ward watches and in my view they are great value for money and spec and its a nice feeling its a British brand too. I am lucky I do have real Rolex watches in my collection now and I love them
it’s that marmite situation you know
they cost lots more money however I love them and I managed to get them,but 1 thing with me I don’t judge someone’s pride and joy on ££££ it’s the joy that watch does for them so on that note I love
Christopher Ward Watches as much as i love my Rolex watches.
If you have £300 or £400 to spend and you don’t mind 2nd hand then a whole world of possibilities open up. I picked up a 1970’s Rado chronograph with the excellent Valjoux 7750 movement for under £250 on the bay within the last few months. Quality doesn’t always have to be super expensive! 🙂
http://i.imgur.com/rdD7J.jpg
I own three CW offerings – a C5 Malven automatic, C5 Aviator
automatic and a C4 Chrono. I would (and do) recommend CW to anyone
who wants a solid watch at a good price – especially as they as a
company really do go to great lengths to provide Customer Service.
The C4 is old enough to require a service, but it is a Quartz so will
have to go back to CW rather than to watchguy.co.uk who has an
irrational hatred of such things 😉
I have also heard good things about Stowa and (especially) Junghans –
one of them may be on my Christmas list!
Believe it or not, I went on a Quartz watch training course at the BHI last month!
That doesn’t mean that I like Quartz watches more than I did before, though 😉