Buying Guides
The Best Automatic Watches Under $500
Five hundred dollars buys a proper self-winding watch, but rarely a perfect one. These seven get closest, and each comes with one honest compromise.
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Short lists we would stand behind, organized by price and purpose, with current US prices checked against the makers.
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Buying Guides
The Best Automatic Watches Under $500
Five hundred dollars buys a proper self-winding watch, but rarely a perfect one. These seven get closest, and each comes with one honest compromise.
Mechanical Watches
Seven Watches That Make a Strong Case Against Quartz
Quartz wins on accuracy and almost everything else you can measure. These seven mechanical watches each make one case it cannot answer.
Buying Guides
The Watches We’d Actually Buy Under $1,000
A thousand dollars is where 80-hour reserves, sapphire and 300m divers stop being rare. These are the seven we would spend our own money on, and why.
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