I'd like for my next watch to be an automatic, with a lighter dial color (tan, beige, white - warmer colors may be okay, not looking for flashy) - most of mine are blue/black, with one grey.
One with enough water resistance that I don't have to think about what I can/can't do while wearing it, which probably necessitates sapphire/mineral crystals as well. This would include not being killed from recoil of shooting
No real feelings on day/date - all of my existing watches are date only. Open to no-date as well. An easy to read, uncluttered dial is ideal.
I've been looking at Seiko and Citizen, but I'm really not sure what else is out there. Would like to keep it under $200, but could stretch to $300 if there's a significant difference at those price points.
Any suggestions on where to start looking?
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200M water resistance
Automatic
Light Dial
Sapphire Chrystal
300USD
https://www.amazon.com/Orient-Japane...s%2C136&sr=8-1
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Seiko's continued failure to use sapphire crystals deep into 500USD watches has me even higher on Orient and microbrands ie. Unimatic in the same 500ish max space.
Frankly, when companies like Vaer are using sapphire at sub 200 USD, WHY Seiko? While "Hardlex" is better than mineral, it is not sapphire.
SEIKO-Eat the cost or charge me more but put it on the watch.
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I am mostly a low end automatic pilot watch person, but the posts about the field watch and timex lead me to this one, which hits every button for me for a really cheap beater quartz watch that functions and looks the way I like.
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I’m recently all in on the Apple Watch just because of step counting and heart rate. But I find it a pain on vacations mainly due to dealing with charging it, especially on long travel days. Left it at home this trip and broke out my Lum-tec. That was a great decision.
I am wearing an Apple Watch while my normal daily wear watch awaits a trip to service. I agree about the annoyance of daily charging. I also find that I need to keep notifications at a minimum to actually see the time when I look at the watch, and keep app buttons off the main face I use to keep from unintentionally activating something and running down the watch or phone battery.
It is great for tracking workouts, but most of what it does, the bigger screen on my phone does better.
My daughter begged me for months to get her one. Now that she has one, I can hardly get her to wear it at all.
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My wife has an Apple Watch with the phone chip built in, and loves it. She walks 15000 steps a day mostly in yoga pants, and this lets her leave her phone behind and still have music, texts, and calls. Plus her phone is always buried in her purse so she answers on her watch to say “hold on a sec, let me find my phone”. Since I always carry my phone in my front left pocket just as much as I carry a pistol, none of that applies to me.