I think a lot of perception is different from different ages. I recently purchased a 34mm airking and 36 datejust and both get more compliments from my peers than my matte dial 16800, whereas for people over a certain age the sub gets more.
Before I bought my datejust I did buy a small seiko automatic (I think it was an snk 355k) to see how it wore. That could be a good week experiment to stop buyers remorse later on?
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