Best dressy watch under 15k (new/used)?

Jamgantenk · Jul 8, 2019

1. JLC MUT Perpetual

Just a little bit above your budget, but hey you got perpetual calendar, sexy thin case, and a black dial.

2. JLC Reverso Classic Medium Small Second

This would be my personal choice. You can save almost half of your budget to buy another watch .

3. GS SBGK005

This is the joker card, have you guys saw the hodinkee video about this watch? So tempting.
And its USD 7,400.

Hope this helps.

Skyrider01 · Jul 29, 2019

My 2 JLCs which would fit the bill.

krh7 · Jul 29, 2019

gold rolex 1803 or 18038. can get a nice one on a bracelet for under $15k.

Flatfoot · Oct 6, 2019

I was seriously considering a Pre-owned JLC MC Meteorite in RG, which was priced less than $15k. (Picture from the web)

Instead, I took a simpler, less pricy but vintage inspired approach to a gold cased dress watch with this, purchased from @guaranteed.rohu

watch72 · Oct 6, 2019

A dressy watch IMHO should be simple without complication or even a date and must be a manual wind.
The case should also preferably be thin and looks good with black leather strap.
Some beautiful pieces are already suggested - including the JLC Master Ultra Thin.
I have another suggestion here -albeit it has a relatively thicker case.
The H Moser & Cie - Mayu small second.

guaranteed.rohu · Oct 6, 2019

+1 to H Moser.

Also, second hand Lange I think is a winner in this price range:

borre · Oct 7, 2019

Risto · Oct 7, 2019

Zenith Heritage 146 has great design, although it's not a very thin watch.
Not sure if it still can be ordered from Zenith's resellers, but plenty of availability in Chrono24.

Deafboy · Oct 7, 2019

At 3.65 mm, the Piaget Altiplano 900P is one of the world's thinnest production mechanical watch. The design flies in the face of the traditionally understated 2 or 3 hander dress watch but it works!

Deno14 · Oct 7, 2019

Iwc 125th anniversary Portugieser jubilee

Risto · Oct 7, 2019

This is not a high-end watch (price range about at 3500 EUR), but actually local watchmaker starting his new brand, but rather interesting dress watch: https://www.facebook.com/fratizelli/
Definitely worth checking out!

Uniqez · Oct 7, 2019

You can enter big boy's territory with this. I think the price is 11.5

guaranteed.rohu · Oct 9, 2019

Uniqez
You can enter big boy's territory with this. I think the price is 11.5

interesting and really underrated I think, this VC would age really really well, and nice that it isn't just an exact vintage replica/reissue

bigfatpauli · Oct 16, 2019

Can be had for well under $15k used and is better finished then anything else you will come across.

guaranteed.rohu · Oct 16, 2019

B bigfatpauli
Can be had for well under $15k used and is better finished then anything else you will come across.

+++++1

ChetBaker · Oct 29, 2019

Uniqez
You can enter big boy's territory with this. I think the price is 11.5

Lovely watch, especially in blue. Shame they didn’t use a proper inhouse movement. Even for 1000 dollars more it would have flown off the shelves (and it’d been on my wrist already).

guaranteed.rohu · Oct 31, 2019

With more investigation, I personally would probably either go a Lange dress watch, or more likely a Vacheron, one of these 2:

Some other suggestions here from breguet, absolute stunners. I think in some ways a step above JLC in terms of design and case/dial construction and arguably movement finishing too;