I am looking for a new watch as my current watch one is falling appart. I am looking to get my first 'non-sport' watch, something I've considered doing in the past few years but never pulled the trigger.
In the spur of the moment (the shop was closing, and it was it was the last chance to get a bargain), I made an impulse purchase today, a Seiko Chronograph watch. For what I've paid, I certainly can't complain. And out of the watches on display, it was my favorite. I kinda wanted a Kinetic, but the ones on display were not of my taste.
Having looked a little online now, I've found a range I very much like: the Seiko Premier SNP00#P1. But as you can see, they doesn't come cheap.
Some online retailers offer very attractive deals however, and there is also Ebay (30-40% retail pricing). But I wonder if it is safe to shop in those stores. Could I end up with counterfeit items?
http://www.rkwatchhouse.co.uk/ can match some of the deals from EBay auctions, but I wonder if they are reliable to buy from.
What do you all think?


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Retail on it when I bought it was £250, I bought it for 180 in a sale in a jewelers (forgotten the name of the place now
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, the premium is purely to establish exclusivity. The mechanism is no more accurate in a rolex than a watch bought at the market, it will not last longer, you don't really need to get them serviced and if they did not cost £k's to buy noone would. I like those titanium seiko kinetics and similar, watches that justify the additional expense on technical or functional grounds (or at least pretend to) but once you spend more than ~£200 on a watch you are actually paying for a piece of jewellery, which may or may not be what you think you are paying for
. Just that I was about to buy a Rolex Submariner once, and my client said "No, buy one of these instead" - it was some brand I'd never heard of and cannot remember at all now, probably you could think of it, a real watch-enthusiasts brand no doubt (costs about £10 to make one of those
. In fact now I think about I would have been better off buying a cheap timex ironman and replacing it everytime it broke (or needed setting
). Still a nice watch for sports though, especially cycling because the vibrations can't harm it.
