If you dig fashion, go for it. If you dig watches or horology, lots of options.

My advice is: 95% of expensive watches depreciate quickly after buying new. Look at Tudor. No one really wants a new Tudor with many better watches for the price. They sell new because it is thought of as almost a Rolex for status. So Tudors get sold off quickly into the secondary market at much lower prices after acquiring a real Rolex or just the realization it is a decent but not special watch. Omegas as well. Check out previously-owned watches for great deals on a watch that would be ridiculously expensive to buy new…and just not worth that price. Then you can enjoy a fine watch at a much better price point.

I’ve had the same experience with the 1963s. I wear a natural, Color #8, or amaretto shell cordovan nato with a couple of them that is the bomb. Plus, I like to let people listen to the killer tick-tock of the watch that is not common now with most mechanical watches. Enjoy!

Nothing wrong with Longines, it’s a Swiss-made mall watch in an uber-competitive market segment of middling brands that sit uncomfortably between well-priced, superb Japanese watches and much more expensive decent Swiss watches. Longines IMHO are best bought second-hand as the prices are so much better for an okay watch. It wants to be a luxury brand, but has a way to go.

Not sure that is most. I like dates as do so many others.

My grail watches just depend on the month or year. When you dig watches, one pops up as an opportunity and you just love it. Nothing static about grail watches except the human mind. So many awesome watches out there.

Most brands other than Rolex are not recognizable by anyone other than enthusiasts. Rolex is a fashion and status brand; brands like Zenith are enthusiast brands. Different CVP.