JOMW's Top 10 Best Budget BIG Watch Brands Under $500!
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- 1. SEIKO - KING TURTLE*
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1. SEIKO SNZG13
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2. VOSTOK AMPHIBIA
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2. VOSTOK KOMANDIRSKIE GMT*
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3. TISSOT PR100
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3. TISSOT GENTLEMAN
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4. BULOVA OCEANOGRAPHER
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4. BULOVA LUNAR PILOT
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5. CASIO DW5600
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5. CASIO AE1200
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6. ORIENT BAMBINO
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6. ORIENT KAMASU
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7. TIMEX MARLIN
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7. TIMEX MILANO XL
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8. CITIZEN PROMASTER
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8. CITIZEN BLUE ANGELS
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9. GLYCINE COMBAT SUB
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9. GLYCINE COMBAT 6
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10. HAMILTON KHAKI KING
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10. HAMILTON KHAKI PILOT
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I do love a Top 10 video though they tend to take me aaaages! This one has been brewing for a while. A wee change from the micros and the AliExpress stuff, some big brands, big hitters, big players in the market, but not with big prices. What or who did I miss? Let me know if your favourite budget big brand isn't here. Cheers, Jody
There are three inevitabilities in this llife:
-death
-taxes
-Jody sells me on another Vostok
Waiting for the two Vostoks that I have ordered!
Vostoks are addictive :O
Jody owes me the price of a Vostok GMT and a 24 Hour Dial model (mind you the dial is stunning on that one, i got the blue). 😉
Let's be honest: sure, we love the watches, but we've got plenty and are just watching to hear Jody talk
We? You speak for yourself mate. No one else. I'm here for the watches.
Hello and welcome to No more watch!
@@alframseysporndungeon8 I think he meant it kinda tongue-in-cheek, lol. I don’t know about the rest of Jody’s audience but speaking for us Yanks, most of us enjoy the accent as much as the content.
Can confirm
Im here for it all. Hellooooooo.
Jodi, would you make us a personnal experience review of your watch winders back there?
What they're like, how frequently you use them, what's your typical rotation, precautions, etc... your experience would be interesting to hear.
I'm sure a bunch of people from a lot of forums would come over and tell us their experience as well, if you know what I mean ;)
Surprised you didn't recommend the 'DressKX' for the Seiko 5 range. You seemed to be pretty satisfied with it.
Who on Earth disliked this video? Have they no taste???
I am half asleep, it may have accidentally been me I will go check...
This is a seiko-Vostok household sir. Respect to any company that can bring the Swiss to their knees
My second automatic watch ever was a vostok amphibia 710 case... still working (inaccurately xD)
Open that puppy up and get regulating!
@@TheWatchtowerWatchReviews did that several times... but without timegrapher to tell me if it’s running well or not it takes says for me to notice if I did it well or not... been a month already and still going too fast or too slow... i guess i will wait for the timegraphers on amazon to get on offer... xd
@@danielhristov6175 or wait for AliExpress to have their February sale, should be a weishi on offer then, think it's Feb 12th this year. I must get moving on a sale video!
Love my 710!
710 best Vokstok, so comfortable!
after finally finishing some vostok-mods that I started or planned months ago I just ordered vostok Nr 5...oh dear, here we go again :D
Almost exactly 1 year ago I ordered my first Vostok after watching one of your reviews...... I now have 5 😫 help me! I can't stop. 🤣
They will start breathing soon.
Check out their 55k series! Charming little things
Congratulations on 175k subscribers!!
Thanks mate! Next stop, 200k. Maybe by the end of the year?
@@JustOneMoreWatch Definitely by the end of the year.
Q&Q also makes good watches... like casio
It was my first watch ever back when i was a kid... bought by my dad.
1 month later it stopped working... i was keep on pressing the back light botton because it was such a beautiful green xd
Q&Q is a Subbrand of Citizen ;)
@@noobfl yes i know :)
I think they are a sub-brand of Citizen, a bit like Alba and Seiko.
They sell those here in Japan for like just a few bucks, at the local mall and not even at a watch shop, they are usually found in between the kids toys and stationary section.....they look like they would stop working if someone just stepped on it accidentally.
Before watching I’m gonna guess Seiko, Casio, Orient, Citizen, Tissot, Hamilton, Glycine, Certina, Timex, Vostok
Bulova in stead of Certina, I was close! Shows I should really find a new hobby 😂
Some left-field options I would add are Sea-Gull (China) and Junkers (German)
As a bloke I confidently say that we all love a top 'x' list 👌
The Japanese just constantly killing the budget market! Have to love them!
Jason, I don't know how old you are, but I am 51. Because of that, when I was a kid in the 70's, I was watching reruns after school of a show from the 1960s called "The Odd Couple."
I remember distinctly when the character "Felix" in that show got a Rolex watch. He was really proud of it, and driving all of the other characters nuts because he wouldn't shut up about it. He talked about it's features, that were "unheard of" by anyone who did not own a very expensive Swiss Watch.
It wound itself using your body motion, the second hand was smooth and didn't tick...etc. The point is, all we know today as an "automatic watch" was a new and BIG deal when that show aired in the 1960s.
Then the patents wore off. Then the Japanese said "oh yeah...watch this! Watch how we can make that technology inexpensive and accessible, because we didn't have to spend the money inventing it."
Now, regular Schmos like me have winders all over our bedrooms, filled with automatic watches.
Hand salute to the Nips!
I'm seriously considering picking up a vintage Marlin, throwing out the movement, and putting in a VH31. It's a stunning piece, but the movement just isn't good enough in the reissue
i ordered a Vostok mid november. still waiting but i'm keeping the faith!
I bought one in winter too, a couple of years ago, it took ages, 3/4 months maybe because of the very severe winters Russia has, so hang on in there. It arrived covered in Russian stamps so that kinda made up for the wait.
Interstellar for under $500 would be upsetting as I just purchased one for $850 lol
10:28 - "i haven't got time to tell you the story..", but proceeds to anyway.. :)
Will you ever review that Citizen Blue Angels you bought several months back ? My brother in law have one and he would like to see what you think about it !
Citizen has no love for Australian as I don't believe the radio control function works in that country. The closest signal in that region is at Beijing and I dont believe it is strong enough to reach Australia.
I already have six of those suggestions! I'm starting to think that I am obsessed with this hobby. Naaah, probably I need six more to be call obsessed, what do you think guys?
Only one way to find out 🤣
Naaah... Just buy one more watch....
...Every month
I'm surprised Seiko has not made a Green Sea turtle version of the turtle, that would be awesome. I still need to get one of those Casio G-shock's but I guess if I get it I'll never touch my other watches.
There is a green one
That's the Casio Problem. I just got aware that I am wearing my G Shock for 4 weeks. Since 5 Minutes I am wearing my Komandirsky now.
My father bought a black kamasu a month ago... totally in love with it :D
I grabbed the wine red one, and bar the dodgy clasp, it's near perfect!
I went for the more minimalist Kano. I love the BB Heritage look with the burgundy bezel and matte black dial. 👍
@@TheRealLucifer_Morningstar minimalistic? Isn’t that almost the same watch but bigger?
@@danielhristov6175 The case is slightly larger but the bezel has no pip or minute markers. And the writing on the dial is very small.
@@TheRealLucifer_Morningstar beautiful, just saw a comparison between the two, i still like the Kamasu more doe (i love small watches)
Excellent list there. I deffo like the Glycine. Vostock amphibia on the wrist at the moment though.
King turtle ❤️ had one bought for me for my 50th and gave to say it’s just everything I need - looks, style and presence - go buy one!
Good choice, can't go wrong with a turtle...
I just got a great deal on a new King Samurai. VERY HAPPY!
Seiko, Vostok and Casio will always have a place in my collection. Usually several places actually.
Bulova has been really impressing me lately. After collecting for years, have picked up two autos (The oceanographer being one). looking at their a-15 currently and the Sinatra series. The limited surfboard Chronograph A and the packaging shows how serious they are getting!!!
Number 1 ... Glycine Combat, Classic versions included !!!
Those 2 Bulova watches, might cancel my Watch collection retirement.
I put an NH36 in my seiko snzg. Just had to swap out the gray movement spacer ring for the black one that came on the 7S26. The I swapped the black day & date discs from the 7S26 to the NH36. Install the dial & hands &... well, you get the point. It makes an awesome field watch into an even MORE incredible field watch with hand winding & hacking. Oh! I also installed a sapphire crystal with purple A/R I bought from Crystal Times. So it's a really bad-ass watch. The only thing my snzg needs now, in my opinion, is a threaded screw down crown. It's possible, but kinda beyond my skill level, experience & tool availability. Just thought I would share this, I don't know why. Thanks for another great video, Jodi!
For me the best watches I’ve picked up for under £500 have come from (top 5 in no order):
Steinhart
Hamilton
Zelos
Seiko
San Martin
WOW some fantastic watches with a video to equal them. A real Bobbie Dazzler Jody be proud be very proud. 👏👏👏
Luna Diver....got, Citizen diver.....got.....Citizen Blue Angel.....hang on a minute, and the combat sub.....ooo
Invented quartz in the late 1960s but crushed the industry through the 70s... I know you meant that J as you showed the Astron.
What? No Invicta love. Sadly, your video has been found lacking.
Great selection ! I own few of your selecteted watches and brands in my collection. Has affordable great watches, I will have added the German, Swiss Made Steinhart. And if you have only one pick to do, for an automatic watch, go with a Powermatic 80, you find them in some Tissot, Certina, Hamilton and Mido. They are wonderful high tech, accurate and reliable movement. I have 2 with COSC certification and 2 without, but all the 4 with the same super accuracy.
Good advice
I obviously watch too much of your channel. Of the 10 watches, I own 5 of them and I only got into the rabbit's hole for less than a year.
Top notch selection, sir. 'Wish I had EVERY single one.*tips hat*
Uh oh I will have to go back and rewatch the first 12 mins or so, I fell asleep in there somewhere!
Totally not your fault its 2am here in NZ and I'm in the recliner with a blanket. I should go to bed...
A man of my word I have returned 8 hours later to rewatch the entire video!
The first Seiko that you ever bought was one of my picks when i was looking for a seiko, but ended up buying a skx007..
I love the SKX look, but I’m am accuracy-quartz guy. Opted for an SBCM023. 39mm. Check em out.
@@prettysoIdier back in the day when i bought it i wanted automatic, now i do have many quartz watches... casio, citizen, bertucci... didn’t even know about the existence of this watch... i like it
hi Jody if only the was a British brand in the collection. thanks for this list have got a few of your recommendations already but as you say J.O.M.W
You're a Bad bad man... I believe the phrase is *influencer". My bank account really doesn't need it 🤣
Impressive research, keep it up. Cheers mate 👍🏻
So much quality information here, packed into 25mins.
Brilliant, thank you, Jody.
I hadn't realised Vostok was such a reliable diver, for peanuts (without getting the monkey, that is.).
Happy to see Glycene in here. Had my Combat Sub for a few months now and I'm still over the moon with it!
I just bought a glycine combat 6 last night. Very reasonable. I have a glycine quartz dress watch as well.
I got Airman, tho it's more than double this price range.
@@smashexentertainment676 The Airman is a bloody nice watch though
I can vouch for the Tissot Gentleman - I love it a little more each time I wear it. “You will not get bored with the Tissot Gentleman on your wrist” 100% accurate.
That one is a real beauty. Next to Hamilton, Tissot is my favourite watchbrand. (Having a Tissot Heritage 1936 myself.)
I know I’m grave digging an old comment, but I’m considering the gentleman. My biggest gripe is the lug width of 21mm, which renders all the 20 and 22mm straps I already own useless. Can you replace the clasp with a third party one that has on the fly adjustment? Because that’s the major point that’s keeping me from getting one.
Bulova do a watch nicknamed Devil Diver with 666 on the dial!? Well that’s a watch box essential for this metal head 😂🤘 I will look forward to the review.
Oh and I loved the multiple Casios 😂 Forget double wristing it Schwarzkopf style, if you want to be a player in the watch game you need to do a Musgrove and wear 6 Casios at a time! 🤣
Guess you like Motorhead and the likes then. Iron Maiden and The Number of The Beast is fitting!
@@glennpowell3444 Absolutely! My happy place is filled with big riffs and loud guitars 🎸😂
@@garethsigrist8714 Man of my own heart. Loud and proud! I will never grow up I guess.
Some solid picks in there Jody, I for sure have some beauty Hamilton’s in my collection but as for Citizen you have to give credit for some of best bang for your buck watches in the game. I just grabbed a 41mm World Time Promaster GMT Eco-Drive, solid bracelet milled clasp, smooth bi-directional bezel. As you mentioned grab & go with everything and more for a bargain. The many options by Citizen make it a straight up winner in my books.
Great video as always J 🇨🇦👊🏼
Great, now I want both those Bulovas, thanks.
If I keep on watching your videos I know I'm going to end up with a Vostok eventually 🤣😂
Have the Casio 5600, a (small seconds) Bambino and yes, another Vostok is on its way! Thanks Jody for feeding my new watch addiction and easing the pandemic blues.
Citizen is by far my favorite brand on this list, I have several in my collection with never an issue.
Great content Jody... keep up the stellar work mate 👍🏽
I love your channel, but another "$500 and under" video? In my world, a budget watch is $200 and under. I can't remember the last time I had $500 I didn't know what to do with.
I hear you I have over 30 watches most under $150 ... there were some in here ... but at this point my purchasing is slowing down to 2-4 per year but better quality and higher priced.
Any update on when the new CASIO Duro line will be dropping ?
Thank you for Introducing me to Orient. Brilliant value for money.
Great choices Jody. I'm a bit partial to a square type watch face. have you thought of a top 5 budget square face watch?
Managed to pick up the Bulova Oceanographer green variant for £249 after Xmas. Wears brilliant , although it's slightly large it's not noticeable because of the case type , like the Turtle. My first experience with a jubilee bracelet and it's very comfortable , really pleased with it.
Oh Jody! Those Vostoks... a face only a mother could love.
Glad to see Bulova getting some well deserved TH-cam love. I’ll for sure be looking forward to that devil diver review.
Ah Casio,unlike you Jody I didn't buy the Royale yesterday,but one of it's siblings.The AE-1000W-1A2VEF and I rather like it with the mirror image of the Royale dial and ten quid cheaper to boot............................................
I would have added Seagull.
You’ve excelled yourself! Every piece is a great choice. PR100 is my personal favourite; that plus the G-shock and everything’s covered.
i just got 2 casion watches today, blue duro and black casio royale, i like your videos
Is it just me in my greying hair that prefers quartz or am I the devil never to make eye contact with? Love machinery but got frustrated with autos years and years ago.
Jody, Can u please make a video on how to read or analyse a good field/military watch. Need to understand what one should look for. Usage of the big Indic numbers, usage of the 24 hr dial, any other thing that makes one wacth better than other, apart from the specs of the watch.
I think this is your best video to date.
Here in 3 minutes :) never been this early!
Ha! Welcome!
Hmmm, that Citizen "Blue Angels" is right up my street. Nice watch. Must look around for one of those. Lovely on that blue strap too.
Starbuy sells them cheap, 250aud
@@ailleurskholin3462 Thanks, I'll take a look. I'm in Europe but maybe they ship. I saw on eBay that these are often going for 500-600 USD for a new one.
EDIT : I actually just looked at Starbuy and the Blue Angels model shown here is around 800 AUD in that shop. The 250 AUD model is the Nighthawk, which is 250 USD most other places too. It's not exactly the same watch as this video but quite similar and still a fine watch, and much cheaper.
VOSTOKs are CRAP, I have 3, non of them work.
Just soak them in vodka and bash them against a tree, they'll be good as new.
Have an open heart Orient dress. You can tell it is a Seiko sister brand as...... the chapter ring does not line up.🤣
Great stuff, and a breath of fresh air from the typical Rolex click bait.
Swatch group price rigging the Hamilton at £855 in uk 🇬🇧 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
HAMILTON
Pilot Day Date Automatic
Bro ,just started watching but you are getting alike from the get go
Thanks mate!!
Apparently, BUll-lava Precisionist is my favorite because I own three including the Lunar Pilot, Super Seville and Jet Star.
I only hate that everyone lumps all of the "Chinese watches" into one group, and paints them with a broad brush. It is true, China is not shy about sending garbage across the drink. But they do have some manufacturers who create a very decent product.
I LOVE Pagani Design. My collection contains seven of their watches. LOL, sometimes when I am bored, I take my diamond tester and light it up on all of that sapphire on my winders, just to remind myself what awesome quality I got for a buck 50 and less.
Another Chinese brand that stands tall: Proxima. You go to their site and basically design your own watch. They are a bit more pricey than ole Pagani, but man...you get every extra dollar worth!
I like my Japanese watches. I like my Swiss watches. And just like our man here, I too love my Soviet watches. But I have to say that, while I know how to avoid "Chinese garbage," The Chinese watches that ARE worth buying are of damned fine quality!
“they invented quartz in the late 1970s” (while displaying the xmas day 1969 Astron, the 1st quartz watch available to buy in-store) 🤔
Even if you meant late 60s, “invented”? In the context of a wristwatch, did Seiko really have a march on CEH’s ‘Beta’ team working in Switzerland 1965-67 to ‘invent’ a working quartz prototype?
From my reading on this; CEH were 1st to prototype in the lab (Dec ‘66, having started May ’65), CEH & Seiko both submitted prototypes to Neuchâtel in ‘67, Longines 1st to announce a product to sell (Aug ‘69) and Seiko 1st to sell (Dec ‘69).
I can’t find any clear timeline for Seiko’s lab prototype work to compare with CEH - happy to be schooled on this, but seems the ‘invent’ honours go to CEH?
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Probably the only channel this week not to mention Zenith (I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it)
Thank you for this, Jody. However, do consider the Ricardo Swiss Alpine Military watch. Oddly, it's never considered in videos on field watches. (Ricardo have made some expensive vintage watches too). This Ricardo should be a Classic with its superb 12/24 hour luminous cream face and Quartz (Japanese) movement. I prefer it to my Timex Expedition Camper. And, surprisingly, it costs less than £30. Excellent value for a wonderful watch.
At this point, I'm 99% certain I'm going to get that "Cooper" Hamilton to celebrate something soon. No rush, so I'm going to make sure I get it for a good price (new).
You won’t be disappointed. It’s a great watch
I’m wearing my Casio GD-350 as I watch your very comprehensive list. Next buy for me will be the Casio Ga-2100, GShock. By the way, if anyone gets a Citizen Ecodrive, I know from my time with my Chronograph Eco, it lasted 12 years until the Solar cell/Capacitor crapped out. I will get another, but now I’m building a Shortlist Casio collection
I have three of this watches.
I have in my collection a Tissot PR100, Casio DW5600 and Seiko 5 SNK 795. All of these are a very good watches. My favorite: Tissot!
Greetings from Colombia.
Question for you: When people talk about the 'property ladder', they mean that if I buy a less expensive house now, I'll be in a better position to sell it and buy a more expensive house in a few years. The implication is that if I 'get on the property ladder', I can climb to dizzying heights of property ownership.
You sometimes refer to Tissot and Hamilton as they way onto the 'Swatch Group ladder'. Do you mean that I am going to sell my Tissot and that will help me fund a Longines? And then I'll sell the Longines and buy an Omega? Or that I've got a Tissot, I like the Tissot, and maybe I'll get a Longines as well?
Vostok began manufacturing watches at the end of WWII, when machinery and some of the know-how was moved from the town of Glashutte (near Dresden in East Germany) to a location in Western Russia; as part of German war reparations to the USSR.
In 1990, with the fall of the Berlin Wall and dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Swiss manufacturer Les Manufactures Horlogères (LMH), owner of IWC and JLC, and its CEO, Gunter Bluemlein, assisted Walter Lange ( the legacy patriarch of the F.A. Lange watchmaking family who had fled to Western Germany at the end of WWII) to bring machinery/tooling investments back to Glashutte, where the townsfolk had a long history in watchmaking.
The resurrection of Glashutte's watchmaking traditions, with the help of the Swiss, has brought to the market the incredibly fine watch brands from both A. Lange & Sohne and Glashutte Original (G.O.).
When I learned about this town's story, I bought (about 13 years ago) a G.O. Senator as my dress-watch. The craftsmanship on this watch is fantastic, IMO.
hm.. i think, you get the Timex history a bit wrong. The Timex Group (Headquarters in Netherlands) is a Part of th Fred. Olsen & Co Holding Group, based in Norway.. but.. Timex is not sold to these Companies, Timex is all this Companies.. because Thomas Fredrik Olsen, the Founder of the Fred Olsen & Co baught a watchcompany in Waterburry, Conneticut in 1941 (you know, witch one ;) ) and the rest ist hostory. Since then, Timex is controlled by the Family Olson.
but a great list of watchbrands..
Jody maaan.. I think you should take a look at another watch from AliExpress which is called Ruimas RL6727G with Miyota 8215 movement at $79 price.
In my opinion it looks much better than Cadisen and Starking. Very elegant.
Hope you will check it out 👍
Jody pls would you mind to explain how Alixpress can sell decent watches for such a superlow price? My last high value for the money watch was a Corgeau power reserve, bronze, blue quadrant. 61 Euro... The owner of the local shop where I used to buy watches, a small one, was totally disbilieved... I'm writing from Italy BTW... THX
The World needs more brushed Vostok Amphibian Classics. Especially the 420 39mm case. C'mon Vostok, brush those 420 cases!
Jody, you are a bracelet guy, as far as I can recollect.
When you reviewed the Citizen Promaster, you should have taken the BN0150-61E or BN0150-56E version, they have an awesome solid link bracelet with a milled folding piece on the clasp and a ratcheting dive extension.
It is really excellent at this price point (around 250€)
I have one and that bracelet leaves my Seiko bracelets for dead, even my Sumo can’t compare on this aspect.
Another great vid Jody...would there be any chance of you doing a review of a selection of skeleton watches?....I love the look of alot of them the way you can see all the innards (from the front not just a clear back) ...would be great to see you review a group of them.
Awesome re-cap of porbably the best well known brands which as you say... do not go over the $500 mark. Great video. keep it up.!!!
Jodi, I just spotted what looks like a stunning chrono, the Poljot Strela Chrono. But it's Russian? Or maybe actually made in Germany (the reissues)? Would you please to review? Looks epic for ~£450.
Good video Jody, doesn't have to be a microbrand at under $500 as shown. H Samuel (UK purveyor of budget jewellery) had the Oceanographer for £224 or about $300 so I had to didn't I...
Hello, What is your opinion on this Vostok Europe watch GAZ-14 Limousine 2426/560105. Looking to buy a watch and want some a little unique. Thank you.
Since watching this channel approx 2 years I’ve purchased 10 new watches and my wife is nearly divorcing me.......
My Glycine Combat Sub is quickly becoming a wrist time favourite. I gave the 42mm GL0083 that came on a black and silver, leather reinforced nato but just put it on a black rubber strap and it is a beast!
Cracking video. Splendid choices. My top picks would be a seiko SARB (still just about available) or a Hamilton 38mm khaki field auto. 😁👍
More videos like this please!
Roger that Steve. Everyone loves a Top 10, me included.
@@JustOneMoreWatch looks like I have to make a top 10 video for your entertainment soon!
I miss in your list some Orient Star, just like the Classic or the Contemporary, wonderful watches.
Jody, please review the CASIO 5161 Lineage Sapphire Titanium
This is a great video, mentioning some absolutely fantastic options! Thanks, Jody!
Please please please do a review of the 41mm Corgeut black dial homage to the Omega Railmaster with the Seagull ST1612 movement I ordered one on Ebay for under $80 USD but I have to wait 4 week for delivery. I have never seen you do a railroad watch, please....