When you?re ?the watch guy? in a social circle, it?s inevitable that you?ll get hit up for a recommendation from someone new to timepieces every so often. While I don?t know a single watch obsessed person who wouldn?t jump at the chance to indoctrinate a newcomer into this strange and wonderful hobby, that first recommendation is a real challenge, and can put you in a tough spot. Price is obviously a concern to any newcomer, and if you?re at all like me, you genuinely want this hypothetical person to have a great experience with their watch, so that watch number 1 eventually leads to watch number 2, and so on and so forth until you?re constantly refreshing the Worn & Wound homepage, following the #speedytuesday hashtag on Instagram, and fully prepared to wire a large sum of money to an internet stranger in exchange for a watch that you?re hoping against hope is all original and correct. Luckily, the Seiko 5 Sports collection exists, and presents an easy suggestion for the poor soul who has just started down this road, and isn?t such a bad idea for the more seasoned collector, either. 
The new Seiko 5 Sports “Field”

The new Seiko 5 Sports line is the product of a relaunch that began two years ago this summer, and now finds itself filling in gaps with watches in different styles and form factors. Much has been written about the position of the new Seiko 5 Sports line within the larger Seiko ecosystem, mostly regarding how the watch community writ l...