Your budget is whatever you paid for all your watches combined.
For me it would be the Laco Flieger Pro hand-winding no logo.
Since i don’t wear jewellery i would have to go with the below
A restored and fully operational original Poljot Sturmanskie. Not only is it the first watch worn by a human in space, it’s also one of the most iconic soviet watches. I’d love to get one one day.
Is that radium paint I spy
Might be! I know there are current models produced, but not sure if the older ones were also luminous.
So long as the crystal is intact, should be safe enough
You do always get some radiation from Radon gas diffusion. Enough to make it illegal to import into the EU now without expensive testing, still orders of magnitude below background radiation.
The people who really suffered from it were the women who painted the dial.They put the radium paint brush tip in their mouth to fine it to a point easier. The radium salt went through their oral issues and was incorporated into their jaw as radium acts like calcium, which got blasted apart from alpha radiation.
With an intact crystal, you mostly get some beta radiation beaming out of the watch face and some light gamma radiation emanating from the watch like a bubble.
I bought an old aircraft instrument gauge today, now the radium in that makes the Geiger counter tick a bit more than a wrist watch!
Good to know!
Now that’s a proper grail watch. One that is actually hard to get, not just expensive.
Sadly yes, at least in decent condition. You can buy used ones fairly easy, but fully restored, and in good condition? Quite hard.
That is the strangest 2 I’ve ever seen. The 0 in 10 is also a bit weird. They distract me from the rest of the piece, which is otherwise pretty decent looking
Well, I suppose the watch I’m wearing then. A Bertucci A-2T. I’m really interested in a Steinhart Ocean One in green though.
I have a Steinhart Ocean Vintage Military (discontinued), and it came with the highest quality bracelet I’ve ever worn. Barely any play, with a deep clunk instead of a thin rattle. I rank it comfortably above anything I know including a Speedmaster Pro.
The watch itself is of very high quality and finish too.
Since I broke my arm it doesn’t turn all the way over. I can’t read a watch if I wear it right. If I sling it under , it gets trashed really fast. It’s been decades since I’ve owned one.
Google “driver’s watch”.
seiko skx007
It would be my current watch, an ani-digi Timex Expedition. It’s not particularly fancy, but it has both a proper analogue face, with a second hand, and a digital display for things like different timezones or a stopwatch. I also love the ‘indeglo’ backlight, it lights the entire display evenly and very pleasingly, and the whole package has a simple, understated look without being chunky.
Probably my Citizen “bullhead” challange timer with the rally strap the last owner put in it. I bought it as my first “expensive” watch and thought I’d wear it maybe once a week. Well, I’ve had it for almost a year and it has become my daily.
All in all, my current JDM Citizen Exceed pretty much fits the spot as my forever watch. Solar charging, atomic radio signal reception all around the world, forever calendar on the date display.
I bought it, put it on, and haven’t given it a single thought since then. It’s always correct date and time and it always works.
I’d take a Chronomaster or Grand Seiko just for kicks but then I’d have to worry about price and scratching it. The $1100 Exceed ticks all boxes.
