1. Both Hesalite/Plexiglas & sapphire watches have been into space on NASA& Roscosmos missions including a couple of Rolexes, an AP, a Sinn etc. https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/eight-space-watches-that-arent-the-speedmaster-professional
2. Bezos and the other 3 passengers on the maiden manned voyage of Blue Origin wore commemorative Hesalite Speedmasters given free by Omega for the occasion, but this was probably more for the history than any safety requirements :https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/omega-speedmasters-head-to-space-jeff-bezos-wally-funk
3. I’m not sure if Blue Origin let passengers wear their own watches. But… I suppose if you are paying between 300k to 150million for a seat, you get to wear what you want?!? Plus, I think Blue Origin are legally regulated by FAA for safety, not NASA
4. My 2 cents: buy the one you are going to love and wear on the ground the most!

Yes, watch shops tend to have this default “man big, woman small” mentality. My friend happens to look awesome wearing big watches and she has a number including a Panerai Luminor (they tried to sell her a Due but the bigger one looked better on her) and a Breitling Navitimer 41 among others. She’s a very slender, quite tall model build but has quite flat wrists so they all look awesome on her. On the other hand, I was looking at Reverso’s today and the the smaller, more traditional ones looked way better on me, even with my 7.5" wrist.

I love bronze with Green, so my pick would be the Christopher Ward C65 Dune Bronze COSC on the green vintage oak leather… I know the movement doesn’t compete with in house, but it’s just a look I’ve fallen for. Helps that it’s less than a quarter of the price of the Breitling 🤣

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Honestly, this is so personal that I’d say, take a note of how much you wear each one over the course of about a month. Those with no or little wrist time consider selling

By your definitions, I’d have to say accessories. Certainly I wear my watches as jewelry, but even with a phone and a laptop on and around me most of the time at work I find glancing at my wrist for the date and time much easier and it’s my primary method of checking the time.

I’m honestly so glad it doesn’t! To me this isn’t supposed to be that practical - plus I’m used to reading a clock without hour markers

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This is my grail, Arnold & Son Luna Magna Platinum and I will never get it. No matter how much money I have in future I really cannot justify spending $60k+ on a watch…

I honestly think that’s what I’ll do as well. My son is 4 right now. I’m also looking at more feminine eco drives for my 8 year old daughter - still needs to be tough as old boots though!

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This very scratched and battered Citizen Eco-drive. Graduation gift from my father nearly 20 years ago. Has been worn almost everyday, shower wearing it, treated badly, crashed mountain bikes, scuba dived, lived on 3 continent’s etc. Sent it in twice for new batteries and that’s it.

I’d love to get the crystal replaced with sapphire but citizen won’t do it.

It’s not expensive, but was a lot of money to my family when it was gifted to me. It’ll always be a watch I wear a lot even though now I’ve the finances to get some very nice timepieces.