The Best Lesser-Known Mid-Range Watches

The Best Lesser-Known Mid-Range Watches: While most people associate luxury watches with Rolexes and Omegas and smartwatches with Apple, the majority of the population won’t have the chance to wear one in their lifetime. That’s a sad fact. Luxury watches are so exorbitantly priced that its impractical and impossible for the common folk to even get close to it. 

The Best Lesser-Known Mid-Range Watches

This is why the mid-range price watch brands thrive in the first place. They’re basically the poor man’s luxury watch, and getting one forms part of one’s achievements in life. Trust us when we say that only at least 10% of the population cares about luxury watches, and those are people who are rich, and fanboys who hail themselves as watch connoisseurs. 

Although the truth of the matter is that, even with watch connoisseurs, the thinking is now shifting to practicality, and the time where getting a luxury watch is revered as an accomplishment is now met with skepticism. That’s not to say that the luxury watch industry is dying – far from it, actually, but it surely is waning in interest. 

For the ordinary person, getting a great watch isn’t about the branding and where it’s made anymore. It’s about the best features packed into a package that’s reasonable in price. The rise of smartwatches and healthy living have factored in how people decide on what watches to buy, and if you’re looking for a watch that’s perfect for an everyday situation, here are the watches that you need to be looking at:

Seiko Sports 5

Japan’s Seiko continues to churn out quality automatic watches without the price tag that luxury brands have. The Sports 5 have been in the company’s line-up since its conception, and it’s the quintessential representation of the company’s ethos: sporty, quality movement, and streamlined looks. 

While there are many other great options in the Seiko brand, especially the mouth-watering Seiko Sarb003, the watches in the Sports 5 collection are too good to resist. There are five lines: sports, sense, streets, specialists, and suits. Any of those watches are great watches, but the SRPD55K2 under the specialist style is the one to beat in terms of overall looks and pricing.

Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2

The only smartwatch in this list, and arguably the best Android smartwatch right now, the Galaxy Watch 2 combines classic looks and technology seamlessly. If you have an Android phone, this is the perfect companion for it. It looks great on the wrist, delivers your notifications and knows when you’re out and about. There’s nothing quite like it.

Seven Friday T3/01

Seven Friday is a relatively small and young watch company that produces avant-garde automatic watches with movements from Seiko and other watch companies. It’s in the higher end of the mid-range price spectrum, but for the value and features you get? It’s worth it. The Seven Friday T3/01 is to die for, with its skeleton watch face and retro styling.

Under the hood, the T3/01 has an automatic skeleton TMI NH70 movement – not in-house, but who cares, right? – with a standard 40-hour power reserve. It’s hour and minute hands functions are top of the line, with mineral glass on the cover. The red lining on the blue clasp is already iconic in its own merit, but what sets the watch apart is its overall unique looks.

Kapten and Son Chrono Watch

Kapten and Son is a company that mainly sells accessories – backpacks, sunglasses, and watches. The company ethos is to produce quality wearables for travelers. Their line of bags and sunglasses have been the more popular items in their product arsenal, but their watches are up there with the mid-range brands when it comes to quality and builds.

The Chrono Watch, in particular, is quite the steal. Available in four different variants, the one in steel is especially beautiful. It’s in Swiss quartz movement, with scratch-resistant sapphire for front and back. The kicker? It’s a unisex watch, so it’s extremely versatile. The 40mm is quite stunning, but we won’t judge if you prefer the smaller 37mm form factor.

Takeaway

You don’t have to spend thousands to get a quality watch these days. The truth of the matter is, a $1000 budget is more than enough to get you a watch that will probably last you a lifetime. Of course, you’d have to have the battery replaced as most of these watches will be quartz, but that’s a small inconvenience when compared to getting a mechanical watch, which you will end up not knowing how to wound.

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