I lost my watch and need a quick replacement without worrying about buyer's remorse. Do you guys have any ideas for a watch for under $50 or so that will look decent for use in a professional setting?
I have a Fossil watch. Looks like a James Bond watch. I should get it readjusted as I loose 9 seconds per month.
I have a g-shock for work, not really a professional style watch though. It has been soaked in hydraulic fluid, grease, jp-8 fuel, and taken a beating that I thought would have killed it off a long time ago. I paid $50 for it and it is still going strong! It is an all black watch. Timex are good watches too, but it didnt last nearly as long as my g-shock has. I got about 6 months on the Timex and im over three years on my g-shock.
The G-shocks are cool, but not something I would really wear to the office. I've actually thought about getting one for more active uses.
Mine is great for the office. It shows time, date, day and month. Functions like alarms, stopwatch and countdown timer see regular use during working hours. Also I'm not afraid for it to get knocked about a bit when I need to muck in and move crates and pallets.
And if I lose it, my G-Shock is cheap and easy to replace.
I used to think I would love an Omega Sea Master or Aqua Terra. Now I am not so sure
I lost my watch and need a quick replacement without worrying about buyer's remorse. Do you guys have any ideas for a watch for under $50 or so that will look decent for use in a professional setting?
I guess my take is that folks expect one to wear suit stuff with suits and gym stuff with gym clothes, and own more than one thing if that is what it takes to do that. Wearing a rubber watch with a suit in a business setting might suggest to some that one is making a statement of some sort, albeit a very ambiguous one. The statement could be to interpretted as either: "I am too cheap to own a decent dress watch," "I am too clumsy to own a decent watch," or "I am too oblivious to know what the difference between what to wear in a business context and what not to."
Not that I did not wear, for years, a G-Shock or whatever Casio everywhere I went, and after that a TImex, if I remember it right, Triathelon.
I know what you mean . But if I knew someone was basing their opinions of my professional ability and business effectiveness at least in part on the fact that I wore a G-shock with my suit I would severely question their judgement.
I'm not a lawyer or a banking whizz kid, just a mid level manager. And I've seen more than enough highly paid yet thoroughly useless, over-rated eejits with expensive suits and Rolexes and Tag-Heuers create mayhem But thats a whole different thread.