Show your 2 Favorite Inexpensive Watches

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Canuck

·Nov 19, 2018

Ingersoll watches are still around. The warranty? I suspect a replacement watch under the warranty might imply that they would send an (identical) watch as a replacement. Not gonna happen! The watch is wound with the key you see in the movement picture. Hands are set by the hand knob. Crown is a dummy. Hands are from a Westclox Dax, and are not original to the Ingersoll.

 

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Professor

·Nov 20, 2018

My little Ingraham Wristwatch.

I still wear it occasionally. Runs fine and accurate enough, within one minute per 24 hours.
I'm sure I could adjust it within a few seconds per day if not for the raised edges of the deeply stamped indicator scale fouling the adjustment pointer.

At ten dollars shipped with original grey pigskin band in fair shape I consider it a deal. The original band was way too small so i put it aside for a cheap but nicely made black pebble grain band I got for less than a dollar.
Cleaned up inside and out and lubed. The crystal polished out easily.

Movement is like a scaled down clock movement, very simple.

Edited: Nov 26, 2018

 

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bikehomero

·Nov 20, 2018

Professor

I just recently ordered a Crocodile grained leather band with the same kind of clasp as that on your constellation. Yours looks well worn in and comfortable. What do you think of this sort of band?

I like the clasp. It is a bit of a hassle to find a new band each time because the hole spacing at the OMEGA clasp does not follow the general norm.

 

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rob#1

·Nov 20, 2018

Here’s my two.

First up, my late father’s Parker, given to me by my mother. A fairly generic incabloc automatic with what sounds like a loose rotor. The crystals cracked as well, but this isn’t the original as that had a flatter profile. Crown is wrong also; it was changed when the watch stopped working following a deluge one day 🤔. Still, its sentimental value makes it priceless.

Second is my first Omega, an mid 70s Seamaster bought for me by my wife. My Speedy gets most of the wrist time these days but when I get this out I’m always surprised how thin it is, and I love the applied logo, and it’s still going strong...

 

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Koen

·Nov 20, 2018

erpin9

Lovely alarm date, These are high on my list!

 

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MMMD

·Nov 26, 2018

I think "watches that cost less to buy than to service" is a good way to define inexpensive. Here are two favorites that qualify.

Edited: Nov 26, 2018

 

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kingsrider

·Nov 26, 2018

Vostok Amphibias. Under a $100 each. Not quartz

 

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timestamp

·Nov 26, 2018

Number one ist the standard issue SKX175:

and my other favourite low cost is the Bambino:

 

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erpin9

·Dec 23, 2018

kingsrider

Vostok Amphibias. Under a $100 each. Not quartz

That is a nice Bostok dive watch. Looks heavy duty.

 

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kingsrider

·Dec 23, 2018

erpin9

That is a nice Bostok dive watch. Looks heavy duty.

They are solid. Stainless case. A good watch.

 

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STANDY

·Dec 23, 2018·schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector

Silver one was less than $50 at a antique shop.

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valjoux72

·Dec 23, 2018

This black Antartic is awesome! Like the UG Polar-/Polerouter from the same time period the Antartic has been the most successful model for Nivada running until the 1970's. The earliest models from 1957 for some reason still fly under the radar...

 

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Syrte

·Dec 23, 2018

erpin9

It was relatively cheap then when I acquired both watches. Anyway, let me add 2 more that I like using for all occasions.

That Seiko is so colorful! I wish they made smaller ones like those!👍

Here are two more of mine. They almost look like cousins, were quite inexpensive on purchase but of course once serviced it’s another budget.
@MMMD ”cheaper to buy than to service” indeed a good definition.

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AZ308GTS

·Jan 1, 2019

This should make everyone squirm..
I like the stupid Skagen because I like carbon fiber, how thin it is and the mesh band.

And well, the Casio is just so geeky and I bought it new in 1989 or thereabouts.

Edited: Jan 1, 2019

 

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Tempus

·Jan 2, 2019

My beater and my son's first mech watch.

 

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AveConscientia

·Jan 2, 2019

AZ308GTS

This should make everyone squirm..
I like the stupid Skagen because I like carbon fiber, how thin it is and the mesh band.

And well, the Casio is just so geeky and I bought it new in 1989 or thereabouts.

Not big on the skagen, but have two Casio DBCs one an 1985 and the other recent

 

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Screwbacks

·Jan 2, 2019

manual and automatic dynamic duo

 

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Yuriae

·Jan 2, 2019

Thsee 2 have to be my choice:


Mechanical “Olma”; bought for about 70$ at the Chaux-De-Fonds watch fair a few years back.


Vintage GP Gyromatic, with a high beat (36’000 VPH) caliber.

Cheers,

Yuriae

 

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Flatfoot

·Jan 4, 2019

The Benrus day/date was purchased from Ulackfocus in July of last year in a rare “two-fer” deal here at OF. Before servicing them both, I thought I’d keep the SS cased version. However I have bonded more with the rolled gold cased watch seen here.
Second is my Egotrix diver.
Relatively cheap thrills with both.

 

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erpin9

·Jan 6, 2019

Flatfoot

The Benrus day/date was purchased from Ulackfocus in July of last year in a rare “two-fer” deal here at OF. Before servicing them both, I thought I’d keep the SS cased version. However I have bonded more with the rolled gold cased watch seen here.
Second is my Egotrix diver.
Relatively cheap thrills with both.

Lovely Benrus watch. Those lugs are elegant.