5 Sports SKX 42.5mm
Seiko · £280
Worth being NRY provisional
A 4R36 automatic with day and date, 100m of water resistance and a steel bracelet, for £280. This is the cheapest way to own a mechanical watch that will still be running in twenty years, and the movement inside it is the same family Seiko put in watches costing three times as much. The case is 42.5mm, which is the one thing to check against your wrist before buying.
- For
- Someone who wants a first mechanical watch and does not want to be careful with it.
- Not for
- Anyone with a slim wrist, where 42.5mm will overhang.
What we checked
- It runs the automatic 4R36 with day and date and 100m water resistance. Beaverbrooks
Marked provisional: the justification rests on 1 source(s); two independent ones is the bar. We publish it anyway and say so, rather than waiting for evidence that may never arrive.