Affordable Watches

Watchtime.com reviews affordable luxury watches, posts updates about the top affordable and cheap watches, and has a database full of affordable watches and cheap watches. We cover affordable luxury watches for men, affordable watches for women, watches under $1,000, watches under $5,000 and affordable mechanical watches.

Dive Watch Wednesday: Remembering the 1970s’ Aquastar and its Pioneering Divers’ Watches

In our inaugural “Dive Watch Wednesday,” the latest ongoing feature on our WatchTime blog, dive-watch enthusiast Roger Ruegger from DiveintoWatches.com explores the contributions of the nowadays lesser known watch brand Aquastar Genève, including how its watchmaking mastermind influenced the course of other, more famous dive watch models.

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May 7, 2014 by Roger Ruegger

Sponsored: Where Professionalism Meets Technology, ProTek Sees Its Debut

Crafted with first responders in mind, American watchmaker ProTek launches this month with the debut of their initial collection, the Series 1000. The new brand joins the Time Concepts family of brands, and is helmed by industry veteran Barry Cohen, founder of Luminox. After founding Luminox in 1989, Cohen differentiated the brand as an industry...

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May 10, 2022 by WatchTime

Fratello Friday: Buying New vs. Vintage Rolex, Part 2

In last week’s Fratello Friday, the first of this two-part article on buying and collecting Rolex watches, I offered my thoughts on the pros and cons of vintage Rolex watches. This week, we shift the focus to the other side of the spectrum, discussing the merits and pitfalls of new and modern Rolexes.

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Apr 25, 2014 by Robert-Jan Broer

3 New Tissot Men’s Watches Debut at Baselworld 2014

We present here three new men's watches with mechanical movements from the Swiss watch brand Tissot: Tissot le Locle Small Second, Tissot PRS 516 Extreme, and Tissot T-Complication Chronometer.

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Mar 28, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

Baselworld 2014: Tudor Unveils New Edition of Heritage Black Bay

Following the watch’s initial presentation in 2012, Tudor has launched a new version of the Tudor Black Bay, part of its Heritage collection. The new watch features a black dial and a matte blue bezel, providing a counterpoint to the previous Black Bay’s chocolate-and-burgundy palette. This new color scheme is intended to emphasize the history...

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Mar 26, 2014 by Jay Deshpande

Baselworld 2014 Preview: New Ladies’ and Men’s Mido Watches

Mido watches have only a cult following in the U.S. but are very popular elsewhere in the world, particularly Latin America. This week, the brand, known for offering Swiss-made mechanical watches at affordable prices, released previews of two new Mido watch models — one men’s, one ladies’ — debuting at next month’s Baselworld.

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Feb 19, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

WatchTime.com: SIHH 2014 – A list of affordable luxury watches

New York City (NY); Watchtime.com, the website of America’s best-selling watch magazine, WatchTime, presents five affordable luxury watches from the 2014 SIHH: https://www.watchtime.com/wristwatch-industry-news/watches/five-affordable-luxury-watches-from-sihh-2014/. These watches were presented in Geneva and compiled by Mike Disher, the technical editor of WatchTime. The article includes watches from IWC, Panerai, Cartier, Jaeger LeCoultre and Montblanc, all priced between $6,000...

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Feb 10, 2014 by Carina Friedrich

SIHH 2014: Baume & Mercier Joins the Tourbillon Club

On Day One of the 2014 Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) in Geneva, the WatchTime team saw some watches up close and personal that we’d already seen as previews — and then, there were a few surprises. One of those was from “affordable luxury” watch brand Baume & Mercier, which broke with tradition...

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Jan 20, 2014 by Mark Bernardo

Around the Web: The Cartier/Chanel/Tourneau Feud, CNN on Pre-Owned Watches, and More

New Year’s Eve is just around the corner, and it is time for our final installment of “Around the Web” for 2013. WatchTime social media maven Alan Loren updates watch aficionados with what we thought were some of the most interesting watch-related stories and news tidbits of the past weeks, culled from the websites of...

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Dec 29, 2013 by WatchTime

Watch Insider: My Top 10 Watches from Baselworld 2013

The Baselworld 2013 watch fair has come to and end, and now, having seen and covered dozens of new watches on my blog, Watch-Insider.com, my colleagues at WatchTime have asked me to name my favorite new timepieces from this year’s show. Click here to see my top 10 watches from the most well-established brands.

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May 19, 2013 by Alexander Linz

Tudor Fastrider Black Shield at Baselworld (video)

Tudor, Rolex’s line of more affordable watches, is getting ready for its comeback to the United States this summer and had several new pieces on display at Baselworld. Among the brand’s new watches was the Fastrider Black Shield.

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Apr 29, 2013 by WatchTime

Baselworld 2013, Day Two: Maurice Lacroix, Chopard, Carl F. Bucherer

On my second day of appointments at the 2013 Baselworld watch fair, I discovered a number of intriguing new timepieces, including a slew of “affordable luxury” pieces from Maurice Lacroix, Chopard’s second-most-complicated watch ever, and Carl F. Bucherer’s first tourbillon.

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Apr 27, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Baselworld Begins: New Booths and Product Previews

The Baselworld watch fair, essentially the Super Bowl for watch aficionados and the media that cover the industry, officially kicks off tomorrow. However, members of the worldwide press, including WatchTime, were invited a day early to attend brand press conferences, preview new products, and get a glimpse of the new, larger Baselworld exhibition hall, along...

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Apr 24, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

TW Steel Unveils 6 Canteen Fashion Editions

Offering a colorful new take on its “oversized” Canteen Style watches, TW Steel has announced the Canteen Fashion collection, with six watches in six different colors. The watches feature a three-hand Miyota 2415 movements housed in 45-mm brushed steel cases.

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Apr 16, 2013 by WatchTime

Tissot PR 516 Test in WatchTime’s March-April Issue

The March-April issue of WatchTime, on sale now, features a test of Tissot‘s PR 516.

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Apr 12, 2013 by WatchTime

Renato Watches Launches Master Horologe Swiss Made Collection

After seven years in business, Renato Watches, a brand known chiefly for modestly priced timepieces sold on ShopNBC, is stepping into the higher-end, Swiss-made watch arena with the introduction of the Renato Master Horologe Swiss Made collection.

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Mar 28, 2013 by WatchTime

How Bovet Blossomed

In our March-April issue, on sale now, WatchTime’s Jay Deshpande speaks to Bovet owner Pascal Raffy about his plans for the 187-year-old brand. In this feature from our December 2009 issue, writer Lucien F. Trueb explores Bovet’s history and the story of how Raffy fell madly in love with it.

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Mar 8, 2013 by Mark Bernardo

Mountain Climbing: Montblanc’s Journey to Haute Horlogerie

In this profile piece from WatchTime’s January-February 2009 issue, executive editor Norma Buchanan reveals how Montblanc, a brand best known for pens, entered the heady world of haute horlogerie, and explores the brand’s ultra-complicated Grand Tourbillon Heures Mystérieuses. In the fall of 2006 the Richemont Group surprised the watch world when it bought Fabrique d’Horlogere...

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Dec 4, 2012 by Norma Buchanan

Hanhart Heads West

In this feature from our current issue, we profile Hanhart, a Swiss-German company known mostly in Europe — and mostly for its stopwatches — and its plans to bring its wristwatches to the United States.

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Oct 24, 2012 by Gisbert Brunner

Three Decades of Shocks: Casio Launches 30th Anniversary G-Shock Models

In 1983, Casio launched its first G-Shock watch, a product that reinvented the image of the digital wristwatch and, with its unprecedented shock-resistant case, revolutionized watch case design as well. This year, the Japanese brand kicks off a year-long celebration of its most iconic timepiece leading up to the G-Shock’s 30th anniversary in 2013.

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Aug 13, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

Idol Time: American Idol’s Randy Jackson Talks Timepieces with WT

It’s been a big week for “American Idol’s” Randy Jackson. Not only is “AI” fandom abuzz over his future as a judge on the popular musical competition program, but this week also saw the launch of a new business venture for the famously watch-loving Jackson — Timepieces by Randy Jackson, a new line of watches...

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Jul 27, 2012 by Mark Bernardo

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