Okay, now that was something I hadn't expected...my #Casio #watch (pictured below) decided to go to sleep at midnight....

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So, I found a watch that is close to a daily wear #watch for me... This Chameri is from Tactical Frog. It features the markers I like (but could be better), dauphine hands (but still could be nicer), a blued second hand, decent 316L case (but could be better finished), a cream-colored watch face (very smooth, but could be something more interesting texture-wise), and a leather strap (I changed the original alligator textured strap for a longer strap to fit me). And It has a 4bps mech-quartz movement. The biggest criticisms are the mineral glass crystal and no day/date complication.

Interestingly, it has 100M water resistance with a screw down crown (unsigned -- which could be better), and a screw down case back. I didn't originally have higher water resistance on my list (50M would be fine, IMO), but it's nice to have 100M.

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So, in my quest for my ideal daily wear #watch - I started with the #Seiko SNE525. This watch has a really nice rehaut, nice markers, solar movement, great stainless steel case and watch band. The problems are: the hands more like daggers instead of dauphine, the day/date window is too small and unframed, the day/date isn't color matched (although I think this is likely to be nearly impossible to find unless I find something that is at a higher price point), and the markers are too thin.

On the whole, this is a really nice watch for under $200.... But onward I go looking for my ideal watch.

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So, this is a cheap #watch that I got from Amazon... It's an AKnight - a sub-brand from Berny / Benyar. Unfortunately, unlike other Chinese brands (Addiesdive, Paganni Design, San Martin, etc.) it shows itself as being a cheap watch. So then, why did I buy it?

I've decided that I want to focus my watch collection. The plan is to have three primary watches: a daily wear dress watch, a casual weekend/activity watch, and a formal dress watch. From there I will have a few sets of watches (mostly Casio watches) to supplement the main three.

This watch ticks the boxes for what I want on my main daily wear watch:

• quartz (although I'd prefer solar or mech-qaurtz),
• dauphine hands,
• 3pm day/date complication,
• color-matched day/date complication,
• no cut-off Roman / Arabic numerals,
• no lume (IMO lume doesn't work well on this watch style),
• nicely faceted markers (prefer applied markers),
• decent size (36-40mm),
• a nice dial texture,
• available in a few different colors,
• sapphire crystal (although I'm not opposed to mineral glass, depending on the price point),
• 316L Stainless Steel or Titanium,
• nice bracelet and finishing

So, basically, something with the looks of a King Seiko, but with a modern / more accurate movement.

This watch hits everything until you get to the details. The bracelet was absolutely atrocious: hollow links, bad tolerances (rattled a lot), bad finishing, annoying butterfly-clasp, etc. And the finishing on the case is just bad -- over-polished, no brushed surfaces, edges are too rounded, etc. They included lume - although they did it tastefully. Day/date complication isn't color matched to the dial.

The bracelet was the absolute worst. I've ordered a black leather band for this watch, as I will wear it until I find a better watch in this style. For now, I've put it on a single-pass rubber strap, so I don't have to wear that annoying bracelet.

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