Lee's Watch Thread for MM'ers of Impeccable Taste

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Just checking in and saw your conundrum DJ.  Citizen does service watches and I've used their service center twice recently.  They replaced crystals, checked the eco drive movements and pressure tested.  They can probably source you the OEM strap directly, but as was said above just get yourself a Barton Elite Silicone for $20 and move on.  If you're dead set on a new watch, Joey's suggestions are good ones.  Sapphire is superior to mineral crystal or Hardlex (Seiko's version of mineral crystal) so go after models with that for scratch resistance.  If your goal is quartz / solar + sapphire, in that price point it's going to mostly limit you to Citizen or Casio's sub brand Protrek, which has slimmer less bulky variants of their digital / ana-digi movements. Not every Protrek has a sapphire, so you just have to do some digging for those models.

Mostly keep everything up to date on my Instagram page and our WatchMMe chat, but the biggest news for me was I finally got the call that my name came up for a Hulk.  It's better to wear every day than I thought it would be, a definite keeper:

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Here are two good "dressier" sapphire quartz watches you can consider, both of which I picked up within the last 6 months:

Citizen Satellite Wave CC3005-85E. It's a big large for my usual taste at 44mm, but it's got sapphire, solar, atomic clock sync and push button GPS sync. Scored this one factory refurbished on ebay for $278.99, MSRP is like $1200 or something:



Certina DS-8 Moonphase Chronometer. You do have to replace the battery in this one but it's COSC rated (+/- like 10 seconds a year), has sapphire, date and a very cool moonphase function. Got this one for just over $300 on Jomashop: