Once you are familiar with passion and tastes of
wristwatches, you surely have higher expectations. You will
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luxury watch within your budget. As you enter into the world of horology, you will realize few things. Among such things you will prefer mechanical movements over simple quartz movement and the names are going to attract you when it comes to owing favored watches. If you are looking to buy watch for $1000 or more, these are the factors you need to consider in getting a
medium range luxury watch.
1. Mechanical Movement
Watches for $1000 or over mostly have a mechanical movement. If the watch doesn’t have one, you should go with special type of quartz movement like Super-quartz. Quartz movements are more accurate and reliable but mechanical watch movement don’t need a battery and represents the classic way of watch making. Such watches also offers a certain emotional value with tick tick ticking of a quartz watch simple can’t offer.
2. Anti Reflective Coating
Glare is the enemy combatant here and you want a bit of it while reading the face of the watch. Compare the dial of a higher-end with medium luxury watch in the light and you will find the answer. Similar to the (AR) anti reflective coating on glasses, on watch crystals, the coating improves legibility dramatically. AR coating is applied to the two places, being on the rear and front of a crystal. Everyone wants the coating on both sides but you should care about the bottom preferably. There is one issue with AR coating that it can wear or scratch off and need to be reapplied. In some cases, a new sapphire crystal is required if you beat up the watch too much. Lastly, a curved sapphire crystal refers to the “double AR coating” (applied on the both sides of the crystal).
3. Screwed Links In Bracelet
This a common concept found in most of the watches. Metal bracelet is made of links connected to each other. There are two types of items used to grip together that are pins or screw bars. Pin is a small rod available in variety of styles and qualities. Pressure is applied with the help of small hammer or device which inserts them into the bracelet. In order to adjust the bracelet, a tiny pressure tool is used to move pins and also to reinsert them. Small screw bars are inserted into the bracelet with the help of small screw driver. They are best because of the high quality, nice appearance and also last for long time. If you have proper tools then you can easily adjust both types of link bars. Heat sensitive glue is used sometimes to hold screws in place and must be heated up for unscrewing.
4. Chronometer Certification
The feature is not common in medium range luxury watches but the addition can increase the reliability and valve of your watch. In-fact, very few number of Swiss watches have COSC Chronometer certified. In Chronometer certification process, a watch movement is sent to COSC where it is rested for period of days. The movement is tested in various different positions. Each movement has the specific testing which means that it is more than a simple testing of a movement design. The watch’s rate results are observed during the test to determine overall accuracy of the movement. In order to be Chronometer Certified, the movement must be accurate within -4/+6 seconds/day on average in all positions. It means a movement must not gain more than 6 seconds or lose more than 4 seconds a day. If a watch is not COSC certified, it doesn’t mean it will fail the test but the movement has not been used in COSC testing.
5. High Quality Case Finishes and Polishes
Chromed metal was super mirror polish on steel which was really hard to achieve and needed to be properly polished. It was hard and beautiful and the look of chrome was very famous but at some point, imitative chrome was invented. The fake chrome was a cheap coating. The same concept is applied to the nice looking watch surfaces. In a bit higher level, watches have milled steel blocks with precision cut and polished by hand. In cheap watches, stamped or injection molded metal is used which is neither nice nor durable. If the underneath metal is better, it will be polished and finished on the surface in a better way.
6. SuperLumiNova Luminant
If a watch features a luminant compound applied to the face or hands, it doesn’t mean the timepiece will glow perfectly in the dark. For instance take a look at cheaper watches around you, they will glow for 10 seconds and then gradually glow in a dull manner for 5-10 minutes. This is not a good luminant feature and when you are going to invest $1000, you really deserve a quality lume in luminant applied watch. SuperLumiNova is one of the best luminants. It is surely the most famous quality luminant but not the only one available. If there is luminant with good reputation with other names, you can choose them. A wristwatch should have enough layers of luminant and must be on a large surface area. Checking a luminant is simple. Just cup your hands over the watch is enough to have the shine of luminant pop out. So, always buy a watch with a reliable luminant compound.
7. Brand Pedigree
Most people are familiar with those mainstream brands and there are also many lesser known brands which are sometimes far better than the mainstream brands. There are countless brands out in the market and it makes hard to rely on alone name recognition whether the brand is worth getting. If you are not good with brands then see the story behind it and also the stories behind the designs.
8. Observable Dial and Movement Decoration
Mid range luxury must have some manner of decoration. This can be automatic movement rotor with special polished finish or a textured dial on the watch face. Such little features add more valves to the watch and also refer to the efforts used in the little touches. Look for machine engravings on the dial and variety of potential polishes on the movement. Even the legendary Rolex Submariner wristwatch has a sort of decoration on the movement rotor. These features makers your watch even more memorable to you.
9. Unique Design
There are basically there types of watch designs. First are the basic original designs that are not based on any type of specific watches from the past. Such types of watches are mostly mixture of designer’s own interpretation of watch making and classic watch genres. The second category is an homage watch which is a replication on iconic, emblematic or any specific watch. The third category includes timepieces which are a mixture of well known styles or look and then adds their own twist. Usually every watch falls into these three categories. There are varieties of homage watches that you will find in entry level luxury watch range but in mid level luxury watches there is much originality in the timepieces.
