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Got it ages ago for about £100
As it says in the title, lets see the cheapest watch in your collection. Gifts don't count, nor do Ebay steals, sorry, 'deals'.
This is the watch with the cheapest list price that you actually wear and isn't just ballast in the box.
I'll kick off with my Casio MRW-200H which weighs in new at a hefty £14.00 from Amazon.
Got it ages ago for about £100
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Pretty sure this Clebar is my cheapest. Won it with a cheeky bid on eBay, didn't get any import fees either.😃
Malc
Mine's a Seiko Bullhead.
Edit: cost me £75. Admittedly it cost me a load of money on top having it serviced etc...
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"A man of little significance"
Come on ladies, don't be shy, give us a price check with your pic....
Sorry, forgot.Originally Posted by Hewjardon
Come on ladies, don't be shy, give us a price check with your pic....
Pretty sure mine worked out south of £100.00
Malc
Change out of £40.
I'm wearing the automatic day/date HMT today (the one on the right)
These were about £15 each from the bay of fools.
Good fun for beer money prices.
Here's mine, just under 100 quid including the GGB strap ...
Holiday watch par excellence IMO.
Digger
Timex Ironman:
Can't remember how much it was, I think it was about £50. It's a brilliant watch and I've worn it extensively for runs and badminton, squash etc. Basically most sports or gym time.
Free...Found it in a box in the garage with my Dad's stuff.
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Or how about this one from a Christmas cracker :)
The two cheapest I have left, based on full retail are a G Shock M5600-1ER and a Mondaine Evo 38mm.
No pictures of either on my phone I'm afraid.
Like you're really missing out.
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Quid - car boot sale this morning :)
DW6600 - £50 - used, with spares!
Unlike LTF, I don't 'love it', but I wear it regularly.
Has to be the Seiko Flightmaster which cost me £10
I've picked up several recently, all cheapies, as I run the pyramid scheme described in the thread on going "up market". Everything I've bought lately is in the $70 range (£45 or so). I suppose this gets the most wrist time currently. I wanted the look of a Kobold Night Ops chrono - or something reasonably close - and didn't have $2000 to blow on the real thing. If you log on to the Manbushije website and register, you can get discounted prices. That's how I got this. On an unrelated note, I'd think a watch with a name like "Parnis" would be particularly interesting to a guy who posts as "Hewjardon"....
Not the cjheapest but bought from the bootsale this morning and run all day perfectly, £3 was a bargainous price to pay for this Uno Sea Lord!!
Also bought this Contima pocket watch for £3 but from a different seller..
I bought this Oriosa divers watch a couple of weeks ago for £12 or £15 (forgotten already)
The crown wouldn't screw down so the chap let me have it cheap!!
It turned out that the screw/tube have left hand threadswhen I tried screwing it to feel if it was dropping off the last thread with a click, it screwed itself on!!!!!
The crown/tube and thick stem..
The threads can be seen to be sloping from top left to bottom right which is indicative of a left hand thread!!!
and screwed down tight..
I really ought to remove the lint and and other debris that is under the crown as it may stop the seal in the crown from doing it's job!
John
Brilliant - that is all!Or how about this one from a Christmas cracker :)
Nixon "The Dork". 70 quid or so. I understand they command a slightly higher price now on the Bay. But not high enough that I can trade it for one of my grails.
My Amphibian. I really like these Russian wonders, a whole different technical approach for building a dive watch:
I discovered the joy of Vostoks only recently, and have picked up a few from the usual Russian sellers. If ever the phrase "cheap and cheerful" applied to a brand, it's Vostok. Really fun pieces.
One of those pulsar chrono efforts, around £50 of ebay. Wear it a lot.
No photo so nicked from web
Also, used to wear this Parnis more than just about any other watch. It's in bits now for wonderfully secret and expensive reasons...
£80 from Amazon, after a heads up thread on here & using a discount code
Dan
A sweet 65 quid:
Seiko 5717 )~$100.
Plenty of cheapies in rotation
Luch one-hander - brand new50 quidish
Galco, bought as NOS on ebay a few years ago, 35 quid I think
Trusty Vostok Amphibia - 50 quid or so
Chairman Mao automaton (he waves!) Bought in a bar in Shanghai for a tenner
Almost forgot, this ADANAC Navigator II, my cheapest watch - free! (won in a raffle for a 10 dollar ticket on another watch forum)
£100 from SC
Has to be the Seiko Flightmaster which cost me £10
Sorry Vin, I thought you said £10 then. As in ten of the Queens Sterling?
Drop me a PM, I'd give you a helluva profit margin on it!
Under 30 quid from memory
From a heads up here. Gbp 45,74. Great to have perfect time on a watch!
£12
F.T.F.A.
I was thinking the same thing - I had an identical blue Seiko Flightmaster some time ago. From memory I bought it for about £65.00 and sold it on to ralphy on this forum - I think the asking price then was £50.00.Sorry Vin, I thought you said £10 then. As in ten of the Queens Sterling?
Drop me a PM, I'd give you a helluva profit margin on it!
So if you picked one up for a tenner, vinstink, you got quite a deal!
Simon
About £85 new.
The cheapest (purchase price) watch I used to have that I wore regularly was this Alpha Planet Ocean homage.
I bought it for about £15.00 from memory.
The cheapest watch I still own and wear regularly is my Submersible, picked up from Eddie for FREE.
All it owes me is the cost of the grey strap from TSS.
47mm, canteen crown, black-on-white dial... a LOT of wrist presence for zero outlay.
Simon
Probably the Sekonda my wife bought me one year.
Pretty sure it was about £35 when she bought it (I'd pointed it out at an airport), although it owes me £1.99 for the replacement strap!
M
Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
Haven't got a pic right now, but it's my Kingston.
Daddel.
Got a new watch, divers watch it is, had to drown the bastard to get it!
£5
£30ish
Surprisingly wear this quite often. Serves as my crazy party watch ;)
The Monster. Cost me about £100 new in the US. Amazing value really.
If you'd been a bit more thoughtful, you could have photoshopped the "o" into a "u" for the benefit of Ivor Largun...I mean Hewjardon
And I don't mean "Shuckresistant".
Is he a member here?
Cheapest watch that I actually wear... that wasn't a gift or an inheritance?
Probably this one... £145
Having said that I do have a G 5600 that I wear for gardening and DIY. £50
Oh and a Green Vostok, £40. Cool watch,wore it on a trip to Kazan in Tatarstan most recently.
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not really worn but...
Looks like the vostocks are a popular cheapie. Here's my KGB one I've had for 14 years on a £3 stap.
Given to me by my father yesterday.
Not sure where he got it from.
Its a British Rail watch, and my dad said it will always be running 15 minutes late
Love that you've got a crazy party watch.
Why don't I have one of these....
Surprisingly wear this quite often. Serves as my crazy party watch ;)
My G-2000-1JF, which I LOVE!
Ooh, I hadn't seen that photo before...
Very clean example, Tony...
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