Also gets the most wrist time by far
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There’s always lots of talk about expensive watches on here but what is the cheapest watch in your collection and why do you keep it?
Mines a solar atomic G-shock bought for me by my wife one Christmas.
The perfect beater.
Also gets the most wrist time by far
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G-shock 5600 that I wear for work.
It would be this old CCCP dialled Vostok for me. £20 from the bottom of a bits and bobs box.
16700. Seen here with posh bro. Need to up my game.
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Casio F91W
Though it is on a leather Toshi strap which possibly ups the value...
Another G Shock here. Not overly keen on it but it serves its purpose extremely well.
This one. That I wear anyway.
I have a couple of quartz tissots that were my mothers. I think they're technically the cheapest but I cant get them over my paw so I'm not going to count them.
1985 RN marked G10 CWC, £65 on eBay.
Roger Taylors white face 1960 nos case quartz movement, probably worn 100 days per year, cost £19
This cost £1.
This one was free with a £7 pair of new trousers.
20 years old and still running sweetly after a battery change.
Other than the ubiquitous G shock? This. 18th birthday present. Priceless.
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5610 @ £65
Quartz Citizen I picked up off the bay for £40 I think.
I keep it as it's almost the same as a watch in terms of design as one I was given to me by my grandmother, but subsequently stolen from me at school (a long time ago now)
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5610 for me too.
Not worn it for a while will have to dig it out.
If this was a survey I hazard a guess Casio would win.
A £60 Vostok, but with a Seiko bezel insert that was another third of the cost of the Russian beast
Casio F91-W that has been my go to watch for gigging on weekends although that duty has been taken up by a rather smart looking Withings smart watch that I got for a 'one year together' present from my gf recently.
£12 from eBay. RAF issue 6BB, one of 1600 made in 1984.
F.T.F.A.
A Stowa A dial, but I kinda steal an old Citzen eco-drive off the old man for when I need a beater!
This one: I bought it new in December 1966 for about $30 and wore it in the jungles and monsoons of Vietnam...still keeps good time!
It's the one on the right, £6.98 from Amazon. The one on the left is identical but was purchased a few weeks earlier, when the price was £7.15.
Well, it was my GBP3.50 fake Rolex that I 'curated' in Singapore back in the day. Unfortunately, it started to rust 2 days after purchase before shuffling off this mortal coil within 2 weeks. Nowadays, it's my F91-W.
Steinhart ocean one. love it. total beater that just laps it up, its a beast.
I've got a Timex somewhere with a lovely rubber orange strap, think it cost a tenner. Worth it just for the strap!
Casio Royale is not only my cheapest but probably also my most worn !
Had one as a kid, on a black resin strap, bought one like this in a fit of nostalgia for £20.
Too small, 1.7s a day fast.
At price or value? Interestingly I purchased a TAG 2000 Exclusive on SC for about £200. It's still worth £200 all day long and I could probably sell it in SC for that. I purchased a 9400 Rangeman Brand new when they were first released from Goldsmiths for £280. I also really love it but on SC I reckon it would fetch £160 on a good day.
Such is watch life!
I have no idea what the RRP was when new but this watch is the one I paid the least for. I still wear it occasionally despite the misaligned hour hand. It is so different from all my other watches in many ways: 24 hour watch (hour hand completes one rotation every 24 hours as opposed to 12), dial colour, country of origin, very different (and loud!) ticking sound.
Raymond Weil don Giovanni
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About £40 and I love it
I would have said the Amphibia but three are Meranom SEs and the standard one I have was quickly modded with a Murphy bezel so that pushed the £40 tag up to about £70
Used for holidays and the gym. Tried the smaller G-Shock 5610 and a lovely Seiko 5 day date but both were just too small on my fat wrist so I went to the other extreme. Quite hard to get inside a motorcycle glove though.
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worked out free as 1sy one was faulty, they sent another and did not want 1 st one back( usa) fixed 1 st one for free, sold it to cover purchase cost, I keep it because its quirky .
This one.
It would easily embarrass a Seiko at three times the price. An utter bargain.
Ten or twelve years ago this watch (with no strap included) cost me $75, it is from 1989.