Wait, you can pre-order those?

I bought a Mido chronometer for $400 on Jomashop a couple of months ago. It is the watch in my collection that gets the most compliments.

I built a nice little collection through the grey market. Just a lot of scrolling and more than a couple impulse buys. I bought an Alpina (quartz), Mido, and Jungans (quartz) for less than a Christopher Ward I bought at retail price as a graduation present. All of these were meant to keep my Hamilton khaki field company. I bought that one on the grey market ~8 years ago for under $600. But I’ve had it serviced twice, and if I need to get it serviced again, I’ll have spent more repairing the watch than I did buying it. The next two watches I want to get are both in the $1,600 and $1,900 range. I figure if I like the watch enough to repair it, I might as well get as good of a watch as I can afford and do my best to take good care of it.