I would recommend spending just a tad more on a solar Seiko or even citizen Eco drive. They are much more accurate than affordable autos and do not require daily attention.
Check out the Seiko 5 Automatic.
I'm built like a stump, so men's watches fit and look reasonable on my wrist. If that's any help.
Just to add variety the new swatch sistem 51 was made exactly to be an affordable mechanical watch. It has several colour and stle options but it was just released so there wont be any long term testing for a while.It was suppoused to retail U$s 150 but its above that for now, suppouse it will go down when all the novelty settles. http://www.swatch.com/zz_en/sistem51.html
Quote from: blooper on March 19, 2014, 01:35:21 AMI would recommend spending just a tad more on a solar Seiko or even citizen Eco drive. They are much more accurate than affordable autos and do not require daily attention.+1. If you're set on an automatic, Seiko makes some nice reasonably priced ones for men, but sadly doesn't offer any autos for women. I have a Seiko black monster, but it has been replaced as my regular watch by a Seiko solar diver, due to the issues above. I often wear a watch during the week but not on weekends, and the monster would run down and stop if not worn/wound all weekend, so I would then have to reset the time on Monday. And, if I did remember to wear it enough on the weekends to keep it running, it would lose a couple of minutes per week, so I would have to reset the time every four weeks or so anyway to keep it reasonably close.
I'm not certain this will ever lead to actually owning a watch at all, but the basic idea is 'time keeping in a world where no one is producing batteries anymore'. So, other time keeping devices (fobs, chain pocket watches, and even small clocks) are all fine to mention, too.
Quote from: nate j on March 19, 2014, 03:38:07 AMQuote from: blooper on March 19, 2014, 01:35:21 AMI would recommend spending just a tad more on a solar Seiko or even citizen Eco drive. They are much more accurate than affordable autos and do not require daily attention.+1. If you're set on an automatic, Seiko makes some nice reasonably priced ones for men, but sadly doesn't offer any autos for women. I have a Seiko black monster, but it has been replaced as my regular watch by a Seiko solar diver, due to the issues above. I often wear a watch during the week but not on weekends, and the monster would run down and stop if not worn/wound all weekend, so I would then have to reset the time on Monday. And, if I did remember to wear it enough on the weekends to keep it running, it would lose a couple of minutes per week, so I would have to reset the time every four weeks or so anyway to keep it reasonably close.I beg to differ, I bought my ex a nice ladies Seiko 5 auto for Xmas before last.a quick eBay search for Seiko 5 ladies gets over 400 results.http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2053587.m570.l1313.TR2.TRC1.A0.H0.Xseiko+5+ladies&_nkw=seiko+5+ladies&_sacat=0&_from=R40
I would NOT recommend a Seiko 5.I had a Seiko 5 that worked well for about a year, then it started gaining/losing 5-10 minutes PER DAY. No amount of regulating could fix it. I now have a Citizen Eco-Drive and I'm very pleased with it.