1. Rolex Submariner

2. Omega Speedmaster

3. IWC Big Pilot

4. Breitling Navitimer

5. Rolex GMT

6. Blancpain Fifty Fathoms

7. Rolex Daytona

8. Jaeger Le Coultre Reverso

9. Omega Ploprof

10. Cartier Americain Tank

Criteria for the abovementioned watches, all timepieces had to be iconic, affordable (less than 20K) by the average Joe, in current production and contributed to the field of horology. Disclaimer, I do not own a Rolex, albeit my next watch may be the new GMT. What’s your Top Ten?

Cheers,

Enezdez

 

Oh no.

 

I think IWC's Aquatimer should be on that list. But a list of the top watches cannot include dress watches with sport watches imo. These are two seperate groups.

 

By your criteria - iconic, affordable, in current production and contributing to the field of horology - there might be a valid argument for placing the Casio G-Shock at the top of your list.

 

1. Rolex Submariner no date
2. OMEGA Speedmaster "Moon Watch"
2. Rolex Daytona
3. IWC Aquatimer
4. Blancpain Fifty-Fathoms
5. OMEGA Seamaster
6. Breitling Navitimer
7. Rolex GMT
8. Cartier Tank
9. Patek Philippe Calatrava
10. JLC Reverso

Honorable mention: Something from Seiko.

 

I need a top 20. Then next month, after I've bought and flipped a few because they didn't fit or I didn't like them as much as I thought, I'd need to be able to amend / revise the list. Then the next month.......

 

I thought I had accidentally logged onto a Nick Hornby fan-fiction web site. Top 10 lists, WTF is that?

 

Well, at least the albino koala, harbinger of imminent thread-hijacking, hasn't appeared yet.

Uh-oh...

 

would you like this weeks top ten? what about last weeks top ten? i could even predict next weeks top ten!! point of this insane passtime is constant change for me, i love looking at all the shiny things until one cries "pick me" then i go looking for one to buy. i have a ploprof and a navitimer and they are both keepers for me (at the moment) i tried the iwc big pilot and couldnt see the attraction for the $ so bought a portofino and a longines instead......im wandering off anywho, top ten for me is a none starter but the g-shock has to be there and the fortis super compressor.

 

I can tell you what I thought the Top 5 most influential calibers are:

http://forums.watchuseek.com/f2/5-most-influential-important-automatics-428194.html

If extended to 10 then the probabilities include the El Primero, Valjoux 7750, Chronomatic caliber 11, Spring Drive, and Omega 55x/56x. Maybe even a few others had a shot too.

 

I can tell you that a list of the Top Ten Watches of All Time (as opposed to the Ten Top Watches of All Time) would have to start like this:

1. Casio F-91W

 

Wait, isn't that the terrorist watch?

 

Um...... yes, if you take all of the internet babble as gospel. But I'm sure any other cheap digital would do the same job.

As to its inclusion in the list, I know of no other watch that has been produced in such numbers and is available from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and is probably worn by more people in the world than any other watch (terrywrists included).

 

Funny you've chosen those countries. I get the A to Z thing, but they both happen to be war torn nations with heavy ties to terrorists. Maybe a Freudian slip?

 

Yeah, I was thinking of the A to Z thing and just Googled "list of world countries".

I could've chosen other countries as examples, but when I started looking tat the list I just thought "Ah heck, it seems that nearly everywhere is in turmoil.

Funny how it turns out isn't it.

 

Remember the thread with the updated flag?

http://omegaforums.net/threads/bloomberg-business-week-worlds-most-expensive-watches.3636/