As 2017 comes to an end, the WatchTime editors wanted to cover some notable watches of the year in a variety of price ranges. First up, here’s our guide to watches under $500 that you may have missed throughout everything that 2017 had to offer. ? The WatchTime staff
Everyone loves a good bargain, even in the watch industry where prices can reach the unaccessible in the blink of an eye. While a lot of what we cover at WatchTime deals with watches in the four, five, even six figure range, we always keep an eye on timepieces that have more value to offer. And while there are thousands ? if not hundreds of thousands ? of great looking new and vintage watches that can be found for under $500, we wanted to focus on what was introduced in 2017 with this list. The Seiko Presage Cocktail Time “Martini” SARB065
While I have a profound appreciation for the Seiko SKX (I’m wearing a Pepsi 007 while writing this), there’s a recent addition to the Seiko stable that I’ve had my eye on for the past few months: the Seiko Cocktail Time. My colleague Mark Bernardo recently wrote about his experience wearing one here, and as you can tell by his review, I’m not the only one thirsty for a Cocktail on the wrist. You can find them for $425.
The Tissot Everytime Swissmatic
Back in 2013, Swatch unveiled the Sistem51 which was hailed at the time as the “only mechanical movement ever made whose assembly is 100 percent automated.” Priced at a neat $...