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The main requirement I have towards my many watches is that the bezel does not catch on the welt of my pocket when I dig into it to get my phone out to check what time it is.
A good source of cheap interesting watches, if quite cheezy at times, is a brand called Chase Durer.
They tried to wing it for close to three decades, spewing cheezy PR and unrealistic origin stories, but they used mostly Swiss movements (never too expensive ones though).
The Fighter Command has always been my favorite, comes with an ETA Cal. 251.265 quartz movement, and I simply love it in black with a black watchface. Can't hurt that it has different variants with different face colors too.
It's bigger brother, the Combat Command, comes with an automatic ETA Valjoux 7750 movement, but it's still holding prices that I don't agree with. I'm cheap.
Then there's the Special Forces 1000XL UDT which was heavily product-placed in the Burn Notice series. Probably a good unit, but well. I still have a broken one somewhere in my drawers.
The brand has since folder, bought by Invicta, and given a new, cheaper life. Movements are now Japanese, designs are still decent and I'd say they are absolutely great value for the prices they fetch (usually around $50 on Fleabay for a CDW Flight Commander (not to be mixed with the Fighter Command and Combat Command mentioned above, which are older, different and better animals.
A good source of cheap interesting watches, if quite cheezy at times, is a brand called Chase Durer.
They tried to wing it for close to three decades, spewing cheezy PR and unrealistic origin stories, but they used mostly Swiss movements (never too expensive ones though).
The Fighter Command has always been my favorite, comes with an ETA Cal. 251.265 quartz movement, and I simply love it in black with a black watchface. Can't hurt that it has different variants with different face colors too.
It's bigger brother, the Combat Command, comes with an automatic ETA Valjoux 7750 movement, but it's still holding prices that I don't agree with. I'm cheap.
Then there's the Special Forces 1000XL UDT which was heavily product-placed in the Burn Notice series. Probably a good unit, but well. I still have a broken one somewhere in my drawers.
The brand has since folder, bought by Invicta, and given a new, cheaper life. Movements are now Japanese, designs are still decent and I'd say they are absolutely great value for the prices they fetch (usually around $50 on Fleabay for a CDW Flight Commander (not to be mixed with the Fighter Command and Combat Command mentioned above, which are older, different and better animals.
