Sorry, but what's AD?

Hello watch lovers,

I've had a Swatch Windfall (part of the dial peeling off now), a Seiko Chronograph (stolen), and some Casio digital ones for exercising. Been wearing a cheap watch given at my company's annual dinner door-gift for years now. Now I'm considering getting a half-decent watch. Thinking of getting this Tissot PR50 T34.1.488.32 for less than RM700. Any opinion on it?

My preference:
- dial not too complex, good clean design, chrono or not doesn't matter
- I'm not a movement person (would prefer automatic but no decent ones at my budget)
- prefer round shape
- prefer metal as I will be wearing it daily and don't know how to take care of leather
- brand doesn't matter as long as the design and build is good
- max size for dial 40mm
- for work and casual

Any recommendations?



This post has been edited by Dannyl: Apr 19 2010, 08:59 PM

Thanks for the recommendations. Saw a couple of interesting Seiko 5s, designs are bit too plain but worth checking out. Saw some bad Amazon reviews on the accuracy and time-keeping, but I guess should be all right with warranty? Orient info is harder to find

Anybody has any idea how much this Orient FD0E003W is? Only 2 results from a Google search

Saw a Citizen watch online that I fancied, went to a Citizen AD, gave them the SKU, but they couldn't find it. Sigh...

NJ2167-01A

patryn33, which of these do you have experience with? Never bought watches online before, not quite sure which to trust.

http://watchesgifts.com/
http://www.skywatches.com.sg/
http://www.skywatchdealers.com/
http://www.modbazaar.com/
http://www.trendstylewatches.com/

Wanna ask something... the oscillation of the movements determines the smoothness of the second hand sweep, correct? I just bought a watch with Miyota 8210 movement at 21,600 bph, which is jerky. Just being curious - what movements have silky smooth sweep? My first experience with clocks/watches (when I was a few years old) was with a family wall clock. The clock had perfectly smooth second hand sweep...

http://forums.watchuseek.com/showthread.php?t=189869

This post has been edited by Dannyl: Apr 23 2010, 02:44 PM

It'll be perfect if it has Breguet type hands and lume. Strangely, the shop says the watch doesn't have a manual... and the box is randomly selected from a pile of similar looking boxes. Is this normal? The box itself is selling for $12.85USD.
http://www.skywatches.com.sg/watches/produ...roducts_id=3303

Sorry, slightly blurred.


Miyota 8210.




This post has been edited by Dannyl: Apr 23 2010, 09:44 PM

Oh, I didn't buy from skywatches.com.sg. From the watchuseek.com links you posted, the good reviews were from 2006 and bad ones from 2010, so decided to skip it. Went to a watch shop nearby, saw it, bought it. Googled the box number and saw skywatches.com.sg selling them...

Brequet hands no lume... but nice. I have a thing for automatics with Roman numerical and Breguet hands. Cheapest I can find is Swatch...


This post has been edited by Dannyl: Apr 24 2010, 10:46 AM

Wow, cheap and nice, thanks for the info! And according to WatchUSeek, Seagull movements are very accurate too. Might just consider them for my next watch

No, that Swatch is an automatic. The other automatic is a skeleton. The rest are chrono, I believe.

This post has been edited by Dannyl: Apr 25 2010, 09:05 AM

What's autoquartz hand movement like?

I youtubed for Seiko Kinetic hand movements. They look just like quartz to me!

This post has been edited by Dannyl: May 4 2010, 10:23 PM