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I never liked Breitling too much. If you want a good cheap mechanical watch, just go with Seiko, you get a good amount of quality for your money. Everything more expensive is an asset just like buying gold.

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BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Oh, let’s not add the Seikos to the list. I have plenty of those. SKX007, SRP775, and like 5 or 6 I’ve built with Seiko NH-35 movements. I have a watch with a Seagull ST19 movement. I have some vintage ones, like a Timex Viscount and an Elgin Sportsman. But all of those are $500 and under (mostly under 200) and I don’t look at them as dumb purchases.

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- Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  As a watch and mechanical enthusiast and fellow engineer myself, I read your comment and well you are certainty right, you gotta live a little haha
  
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  - BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You sure do! And I love them all. I love modding them, I love wearing them. Love learning about them. I’d say my Seagull chrono gets equal wrist time to the Breitling. I try to keep everything in rotation. Except the George Stockwell trench watch… I’m afraid it might be a touch radioactive due to the radium.
    
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    Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Oh yeah that one I probably wouldn’t wear haha. Would you care to share some of your mods?
    
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NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I nice steal-able asset you flaunt on your wrist, to boot!

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- BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  True, but they are all insured and you can always report the serial number to a database so it gets flagged if it pops up somewhere.
  
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- Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yes what I meant by saying it’s an asset is that you should not wear it. The Seiko is already expensive enough to get stolen. Either way when you have watches in the price category shown above, you also have insurance for your watch. Especially when you wear it.
  
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