Khaki Aviation Automatic Men's Watch, 45mm Stainless Steel Case, Swiss Made, Brown Dial Analog Wrist Watch for Men, 100m Waterproof, Sapphire Crystal, Textile Strap

Although this Hamilton watch is expensive, it is also the finest mechanical watch you can buy. I also love the pilot features which provide course corrections for wind direction and intensity as they take me back to when I was in navigation training in the AF in the 70s. It is my favorite watch and will out last me by decades.

This is a remarkable watch, and well worth the price. You won't get to experience what a really high quality watch is like for much less. Before I got this I thought nobody could possibly need or want a $2000 watch; it must just be luxury price signaling. After you have this and compare it to your $200 watches you realize it was the $200 watch that was the rip-off. Everything about the watch is solid. You wind it (if you want, as it's automatic and doesn't require it) and you can feel the tight but smooth movement isn't the usual cheap "gritty" gear train. You put your ear to this and you can barely hear the movement; it's too precise to be wasting much energy making noise. You click the chronograph buttons and everything feels solid and tight. The crowns are substantial and satisfying to work. The watch weighs enough to let you know it's there. The band is perfect, and has nice touches like a suede back to make it comfortable. The crystal has a broadband anti-reflective coating that actually works, and doesn't just turn the reflections blue; it makes them disappear entirely. Oh, and it keeps time. Mine gets better than 2 seconds a day. For a mechanical watch, that's really good, about as good as any Swiss watch you'll find, even a Rolex. Hamilton doesn't screw around, despite not being one of the flashy collector boutique brands. It's just a solid brand that delivers quality, and they put in the work to do things right; they use non-magnetic silicon for the balance spring, they completely upgrade the STA calibre to their own regulation, and modify the rate to achieve extra power reserve. If you don't want to spring for this much but still want a true quality watch at a decent price, then consider the non-chronograph version of this watch, or even one of Hamilton's field watches. (The chronograph feature is very complicated to make and is a much more expensive movement.) Lastly, a quick word on the X-wind function: it's a nice historical homage to the old E6-B flight computers people used to use. However, the instructions that come with the watch are actually incorrect, despite the watch actually being a correct version of a cross-wind computer! The watch designers knew what they were doing, even if the manual writer didn't. So, if you actually want to play with the computer, look up how to do it on the internet. Or don't, and just enjoy the watch.

This is such a great price, because not only does this time piece give accurate time, but you can also use it to go back in time. I mean, it's really priceless at that point. I've gone back in time on multiple occasions to make the reality we have today, so depending on your point of view, I am either a hero or the villain of your reality.