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.

 

My 2 JLCs which would fit the bill.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

+1 to H Moser.

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

 

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.

 

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!

 

Iwc 125th anniversary Portugieser jubilee

 

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!

 

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

 

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

 

+++++1

 

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).

 

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;

 

If someone handed me $15k and said go buy a dress watch, honestly I’d get a Calatrava

 

the modern ones are hard to get under $15k though right?