What time do you wear?

To clarify. The person this gift is intended for is not at all a watch aficionado, but he appreciates fine things and he does need good watch for decades to come. Just one watch.

For all of you with good watches.....recently, my Breitling Navitimer would stop. I sent it to Breitling who would fix it for 1550.00 dollars but I declined and had them return the watch. I found a guy in Florida who fixes all these kinds of watches.....I sent mine to him thinking I’d never get it back, however, he completely reconditioned it (the same as Breitling), for 520.00. Recommended.  By the way as far a dependability on Breitling is concerned....mine is at least 50 years old when it needed service....I used it for flight navigation (now I can hardly read the numerals)

Stringreen, 
That's a pretty good reliability if you ask me. Yeah, I know, there are places, including in New York City, where you can have it fixed for much less than at the factory. However, I would be buying new with five or six year warranty. Omega has this polished sophistication look, Breitling is kind of in your face ruggedness, and also usually bigger and heavier.

@inna- funny, I just mentioned you in another thread about ultrasonic record cleaning that I hadn’t seen you post for a while.

I’m not a heavy wristwatch collector- I’m aware of the market and have a few odds and ends, an old Rolex, a fancy chronograph from Cartier that I bought years ago, when I gave my wife a smaller vintage one; my daily, if and when I wear a watch, something I only do now if I get out of my pajamas and actually get dressed all proper like to go somewhere, is a Panerai. That thing has taken a beating- it was really slammed in a motorcycle crash a decade or more ago, and the factory rebuild it for what seemed, at the time, to be a fairly low price.
Cool collector hobby- some of the serious vintage and modern watches are fabulous pieces of design or mechanical engineering. I’m not really up on it; you can have something that tells time for cheap or have something that is really a piece of art.

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