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Old Jul 7, 2010 | 03:56 PM
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Help me choose my free watch!

But of course, as always there is a catch!

I have these 'loyalty vouchers' from the supermarket here in the UK, and I have quite a few, so I redeemed them against vouchers for the local jewellers.

Its not a 'good' jewellers by any stretch but its the only option for where to spend these loyalty vouchers.

So, my choices are here:

Watches at Goldsmiths

I have to spend over 200 but under or exactly 400 UK pounds on the watch.

Thing is, I'm not looking at any and thinking "That one is nice", but then they are cheap watches and it is free, so lets not look a gift horse in the mouth.

Any ideas? Anyone seen any of these in the flesh and thought they look nice?

Some examples of reasonable looking choices:







And yes, you will notice compared to the USA, they are super expensive!
 
Old Jul 7, 2010 | 04:00 PM
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TW steel
 
Old Jul 7, 2010 | 04:02 PM
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Old Jul 7, 2010 | 04:09 PM
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Which one, there are 19 choices on the linked site.

Why TW Steel?

I personally have never heard of them, but that means nothing as I know nothing about cheap watches.
 
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I was going with looks nothing else
 
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Ah Right. Basically I have a choice of 123 different watches.

Non of them really stand out and shout 'get me' but if one would make a good resale, or if someone says 'I have seen that one in real life and its really nice actually' then that will help me with my decision.

Was just wondering if anyone had any experience of the ones on the linked site (not just the two examples pictured)
 
Old Jul 7, 2010 | 04:22 PM
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Citizen do a 'Blue Angels' watch, it looks too busy.



But I could then buy the IWC Top Gun for my 30th and have an aviation based watch collection
 
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Personally, I like some of these:









All of the above are from very highly respected inexpensive watch makers.

Never heard of TW Steel but thought this one looked kinda cool...

 
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So far blacked out one looks best
 
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Alzilla - Yeah, the first Tissot is clearly copying the Tag Carrera in design/influence.

There is a huge store near me, I might go look tomorrow at lunch.
 



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