What 5 Watches Would You Buy If You Had to Start Over and Couldn't Include Ones from Your Current Collection?

I love the question. Here it goes:

One. At the $250 mark would be the Seiko SRP231K1 on rubber strap. 

Two. At the $340 mark, the Orient Lefty M-Force Beast. 

Three. At the $ 480 mark, the Orient M-Force El03004B on rubber strap. 

Four. At the $1,100 mark, the Seiko Prospex Golgo SBBN023. 

Five. At the $1,500 mark, the Orient Saturation Diver. 

That's a paltry 4K for five excellent watches. That's about 35% of all the money I spent on slop fashion watches since 2007. But I guess it's time to turn the page and move forward. 

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Comments

[Angelo]

How did you do overall, on selling your fashion watches? What percentage of your original "investment" did you recover, roughly?

[Angelo]

Hey Jeff, Invicta's Sunday Run has a Subaqua 14000 featured. Wowie, it's a $2000.00 watch that they are selling for only $149.00 plus seven dollars shipping. You save about eighteen hundred and fifty dollars. It's got a silicone band too.

[herculodge]

Probably sixty percent back, so I didn't lose it all.

[jonnybardo]

Is there a price cap for this question? And does it assume that we're starting over with what we know?

I'll try to keep the price to $4K, like you (although you actually came up at $3500). I'd be very tempted to get only one watch, the Seiko SBDB001. But for fun I'll spread it out a bit.

1. Seiko Black Monster 2nd gen $250
2. Tempest Viking pvd $835
3. Oris Titan small second $1500
4. Omega Seamaster blue dial, non-chrono for about $1500 used