Quartz and solar watches, by price

The floor, and included as such. $29.95, in stock, 35.2 mm across, 38.2 mm lug-to-lug, 8.5 mm thick, 21 g, resin case and crystal, 7-year battery. Casio lists water resistance with no metre rating, so the table shows a dash; do not swim in it on the strength of the page. The A168W-1 at $39.95 is the same idea in a chrome-plated case at 36.3 mm and 50 g. Every other watch on this page costs at least twice as much, and the spec sheets say what the money buys: a metre rating, a metal case and, from $150, sapphire.

The F91W in a metal-look case, and the one to buy of the two if 21 g reads as flimsy: 50 g in chrome-plated resin, 36.3 mm across, 38.6 mm lug-to-lug, 9.6 mm thick, with the same 7-year CR2016 battery and an EL backlight, $39.95 and in stock. Casio lists water resistance with no metre rating, as on the F91W, so the table shows a dash. The AE1200WH at the same $39.95 is the alternative: 100 m, a 10-year battery and world time, in a case 5.8 mm wider. The trade is that $10 over the F91W buys plating and 29 g and nothing else the sheet can show.

The most watch per dollar in the bracket: $39.95 buys 100 m, a 10-year battery and world time for 31 zones. 42.1 mm across, 45 mm lug-to-lug, 12.5 mm thick, 39 g, resin case and crystal, amber LED backlight. It was showing notify-me on casio.com on the check date. The F91W at $29.95 is the alternative for $10 less, with a 7-year battery and no metre rating; the DW5600E at $99.95 is the next step up, with shock resistance and 200 m. The trade is a resin crystal, which scratches, and a case 6.9 mm wider than the F91W's.

The cheapest analogue Timex in the data, and a 30 m watch, which is the reason it sits this far down. Quartz, 38 mm, mineral crystal, 20 mm lugs, a polished silver-tone brass case at 47.8 g, Indiglo backlight, on a slip-through fabric strap, $77 on timex.com. Timex publishes neither lug-to-lug nor thickness for it, so the table carries two dashes. The Scout at $95 is the alternative for $18 more: 40 mm, 50 m, 11 mm thick, on a strap with spring bars. The Weekender's trade is 20 m of water resistance and two blank columns; what it keeps is the size, 2 mm under the Scout.

The cheapest 200 m watch on any list on this site, and at $84.95 there is no serious argument against it. Casio publishes the case as 48.5 by 44.2 by 12.1 mm: read 44.2 mm across, 48.5 mm lug-to-lug and 12.1 mm thick. That lug-to-lug is short for the diameter, which is why the Duro fits wrists a 44 mm watch would normally overhang. Mineral crystal, aluminium unidirectional bezel, fluorescent lume on hands and indices, quartz. Casio claims no ISO certification and the page gives no lug width. The automatic answer to the same brief is the Islander Turtle at $195, on sapphire, which was out of stock on the check date. The trade is the mineral glass.

The field watch to buy at $95 if sapphire is not a condition. 40 mm, 11 mm thick, 50 m, mineral crystal, 20 mm lugs, Indiglo backlight, $95 on timex.com on the check date, sale and regular price the same. Timex publishes no lug-to-lug for any watch, so that column is a dash, and the case is brass with a titanium finish, not titanium. The Vaer S5 above is the alternative at $189: $94 more for sapphire, 50 m more water resistance and a second strap. Street prices at discounters are usually lower, but no discounter page was fetched, so the list price stands.

The square G-Shock in its plainest form, and the only watch here where shock resistance is the reason to buy. 42.8 mm across, 48.9 mm lug-to-lug, 13.4 mm thick, 52 g, 200 m, mineral crystal in a resin case, with a CR2016 battery Casio rates at 5 years, $99.95, showing notify-me on casio.com on the check date. Apart from the Duro it is the only 200 m watch on this page under $100. The GA2100 at $110 is thinner at 11.8 mm and was also out of stock, and the AE1200WH at $39.95 has a 10-year battery and world time for 31 zones. The Duro at $84.95 is the alternative for the money with a bezel and an analogue dial.

The G-Shock to buy over the DW5600E if thickness decides it: 11.8 mm against 13.4 mm, with the same 200 m. Ana-digi quartz, 45.4 mm across, 48.5 mm lug-to-lug, 51 g, mineral crystal in a carbon-reinforced resin case, $110 on casio.com, where it was showing notify-me on the check date; Jomashop listed it at $84.99 and out of stock the same day. The DW5600E at $99.95 is the alternative for $10 less, 1.6 mm thicker and 2.6 mm narrower. The trade is stock, which on the check date neither casio.com nor the discounter had, and a mineral crystal in place of nothing better at the price.

The chronograph to buy under $200, and the one Edifice here that was in stock on casio.com on the check date. Quartz, 43.5 mm across, 48.6 mm lug-to-lug, 11 mm thick, 128 g on the steel bracelet, 100 m, mineral crystal, a 1-second chronograph and a 24-hour subdial, $120. The EFB-108D above is the Edifice with sapphire at $150, 2.3 mm thinner and without the chronograph; the EFR539D below is the larger chronograph at $155. Casio's US Edifice listing had nothing under $100 on the check date. The trade against the EFB-108D is mineral glass and 2.3 mm; what the $30 saved buys is the stopwatch.

The dress watch to buy under $200, and the only Timex on the page in a steel case. 40 mm, 11 mm thick, 50 m, mineral crystal, 20 mm lug width, leather strap, cream dial with Roman numerals and a day-date, $149. Timex publishes no lug-to-lug. The Scout and the Weekender are brass, and apart from the Islander Turtle it is the only day-date here. The Weekender 38 at $77 is the cheaper Timex analogue, 30 m on a slip-through fabric strap. A mechanical Timex in the same family costs $259: the hand-wound Marlin, on the under-$300 list. The Waterbury's trade is mineral glass and 50 m; what $149 buys over the Scout is the steel case and the day-date.

The thinnest watch on the page at 8.7 mm, and the one Casio under $200 in this data on sapphire. Casio's copy calls it a chronograph; it is a three-hand date watch on a bracelet. Quartz, with a battery Casio rates at 3 years, 45 mm across, 47.5 mm lug-to-lug, 100 m, $150. The alternative in the same family is the Edifice EFV650D chronograph at $120, on mineral glass and 2.3 mm thicker. It was showing notify-me on casio.com on the check date and the page gives no lug width. At 45 mm across it shares the widest case on the page with the Islander Turtle, and that is the trade for the thinness.

The largest watch on the page by 4.1 mm: 49.5 mm across and 54.1 mm lug-to-lug is a great deal of steel for most wrists. Quartz chronograph to 1/10 second, 11.7 mm thick, 185 g on the bracelet, 100 m, mineral crystal, a blue and grey ion-plated bezel, $155 and in stock on casio.com on the check date. The EFV650D at $120 is the alternative in the family: 6 mm narrower, 5.5 mm shorter across the lugs, 57 g lighter and $35 less, with a 1-second chronograph. The trade is the tenth-second stopwatch; the return for the $35 is a watch that fits under a cuff.

The floor of the ladder, and the entry with the least published about it: $185 buys a titanium case and a spec sheet made of pictures. Bertucci sells the A-2T direct at $185 in every band variant and its product page states, in text, only a 40 mm unibody titanium case, a fixed bezel and a quartz movement it does not name; the water rating, crystal, thickness, lug-to-lug and band width are shown as images and are not in the data here. The brand's lume wording is "Swiss Super-Luminous". The A-4T Super Yankee at $295 adds a low-battery indicator, and a search snippet gives it as 44 mm, which is not adopted. What the next $64 buys is a spec sheet, and an automatic.

The quartz field watch to buy at $189, on the strength of a sapphire crystal and a 2-year warranty. 40 mm, 48 mm lug-to-lug, 9.4 mm thick, 100 m, flat sapphire with internal anti-reflective coating, Super-LumiNova C1 in 15 layers, two straps in the box. The movement is a Miyota 2035 battery quartz and the product page states assembly in Hong Kong; Vaer's solar C-series starts at $319. The alternative for less is the Timex Scout further down at $95: $94 saved, and you give up the sapphire, 50 m of water resistance and the second strap. The S5 Tradition dial is $179 and the Tactical $199, and all three come as a 36 mm S3 at the same prices.

The thinnest diver on the page, and the one to buy if 10.4 mm matters more than an automatic. 39 mm, 46 mm lug-to-lug, 150 m, flat sapphire with anti-reflective coating, BGW9 lume, aluminium bezel with a lume pip, 20 mm lugs, $239 with two straps in the box. The movement is a Miyota GM12 quartz and the product page states assembly in Hong Kong; Vaer's USA-assembled D4 in the same 39 mm case is solar and $429. The alternative for the money is the San Martin 6200 at $275: an automatic and 50 m more for 2.6 mm of thickness. The DS2 Meridian colourways are $239 to $249 in 36, 39 and 42 mm.

The thinnest watch on the page at 8.4 mm, and the one quartz here with both sapphire and 100 m. Seiko 6N52 quartz with date, 40.2 mm, 20 mm lugs, LumiBrite on the hands per the retailer listing; no lug-to-lug published. The price needs its provenance: Seiko's US site does not list the SUR307, and the $240 is the USD figure on Seiko's Middle East site, a maker's price from the wrong region. The DS2 at $239 is the alternative for $1 less, 150 m and a bezel at 10.4 mm; the SUR307's trade is where its price comes from, and 2 mm of thickness is what it wins.

The one GMT under $300, and the reason to buy it. A fourth-hand caller GMT on a Swiss quartz movement (Timex's wording), 38 mm, 12.5 mm thick, 50 m, domed acrylic, 18 mm lugs, a rotating red and blue 24-hour bezel and a date, $269. Caller means the GMT hand sets independently and the local hour does not jump, as with the Seiko NH34 in the Islander and Spinnaker GMTs on the GMT list. The Q Timex 1979 Reissue incumbents list is no longer on timex.com; this is the current Q. No lug-to-lug is published. The Vaer DS2 at $239 is the other quartz on the page, sapphire and 150 m; the Q trades both for the second time zone.

The cheapest RZE and the only digital: $279 in BK, on pre-order at check with shipping stated as early September 2026, 42 mm case under a 43 mm bezel, 49.5 mm lug-to-lug, 13.4 mm thick, 200 m, sapphire, grade 2 titanium with UltraHex, shock resistant, on an elasticised fabric strap with a bracelet option; the CKT and CKO variants are $379. The module is RZE's own, on a CR2032 the maker rates at 3 years and more, with a lifetime guarantee on the module itself. Casio's G-Shock DW5600 at $99.95 is the digital for a third of the money, 200 m in resin at 48.9 mm; the RZE's $179 buys titanium, sapphire and the guarantee, and 0.6 mm more length.

The only chronograph Vaer makes, at $279, on the Seiko VK63 meca-quartz: battery timekeeping, a mechanical chronograph module, so the pushers snap back like a mechanical. 40 mm, 11.8 mm thick, 48 mm lug-to-lug, 100 m, and the only current model with a tachymeter. Assembled in Hong Kong. Against the S5 at $189 the $90 buys the chronograph and 2.4 mm of thickness. Unimatic's U3-AEG runs the sibling VK64 at $840, which puts $279 in proportion; the Vaer's case is the plainer one and the money reflects it.

The chronograph to buy under $300 for a small wrist: 45.9 mm lug-to-lug is short for a 39 mm case. Seiko VK63 meca-quartz (quartz timekeeping, mechanical chronograph module with a snap-back reset), 13.5 mm thick, 50 m, double-domed K1 mineral crystal with anti-reflective coating, $290. Dan Henry's chronographs are all VK63 and the 1962 is the 39 mm one; the 1964 Gran Turismo is 38 mm and $310, over the line. The alternative for the money is the Vaer RS1 at $279, the same movement with 100 m and sapphire, noted below. The Dan Henry's trade is mineral glass and 50 m, and its argument is the case.

The field watch to buy if a battery change is the thing never to think about again: Citizen's E101 Eco-Drive solar, now titled Garrison on citizenwatch.com. 37 mm, 100 m, mineral crystal, lumed hands and markers, 18 mm lugs, $295 list and $236 on Citizen's own sale on the check date. Citizen publishes neither the lug-to-lug nor the thickness, so both are dashes. It is the only solar watch on this page and the only one from a major brand. A Jomashop landing page showed it at $219 with a $100 coupon; street runs far below list. The trade is the mineral crystal, and the alternative is the Vaer S5 on the under-$200 list, sapphire at $189 with a battery.

The 42 mm solar diver at $299, assembled in Hong Kong, and the cheapest 200 m Vaer: 48 mm lug-to-lug, 11.6 mm thick, Epson solar quartz, so a charge from daylight and no battery service. The D4 at $429 is the US-assembled 39 mm version of the same idea, $130 more and 2 mm shorter; the $130 is the assembly site and the size. At this money the San Martin 6200 at $275 is the mechanical alternative, on an NH35 with a bracelet, at 38 mm. Buy the DS4 for the solar movement and the 42 mm; buy the D4 if 48 mm is too long.

The smaller chronograph, and the one for a wrist under 6.75 inches: $310, 38 mm, 44.7 mm lug-to-lug, 12.9 mm thick, Seiko VK63, fixed black tachymeter, 50 m, on a 19 mm lug, also sold in 36 mm. The crystal is sapphire-coated mineral rather than the 1962's K1, and the run is 1,964 pieces per colour. Against the 1962 the $20 buys 1.2 mm off the lug-to-lug, 0.6 mm off the thickness and the coating, and costs a millimetre of dial and the panda options. The 19 mm lug is the awkward figure; straps in that width are scarcer than 20 mm. Brew's Retrograph at $375 is the next meca-quartz up, with sapphire.

The smallest Vaer at 36 mm and 43 mm lug-to-lug, $319, and the one for a wrist under 6.5 inches or a shirt cuff: solar quartz, 100 m, 12 mm thick. The thickness is the price of a solar cell under a small dial, and it is 1.6 mm more than the 40 mm C5 on the same movement. The A12 at $1,099 shares the 36 mm and 43 mm footprint with a Sellita inside; the C3 is that case for $780 less, in quartz. The Nodus Unity at $675 is 36.5 mm and 43.5 mm on a Miyota 9015, if the movement matters more than the money.

$349 buys the first stated USA assembly on the page and a solar movement that needs no winding: 40 mm, 48 mm lug-to-lug, 10.4 mm before the crystal (12.2 mm with it), 20 mm lugs, Epson VS42, 100 m, single-domed sapphire with AR, two straps in the box. The trade is the movement: for $34 less the Seiko is mechanical, and for $50 less the Boldr is titanium, 200 m and 4 mm shorter. Vaer's field range is the widest here by price: the S5 quartz at $189, the C3 solar at 36 mm and $319, the A5 automatic at $599 and the A12 Dirty Dozen at $1,099 on a Sellita SW260-1, Swiss-assembled and sold out on the check date. The Vaer guide has the table.

A dress quartz at $350 list and $280 on Bulova's own sale on the check date, this far down because of the sheet: 40 mm, 20 mm lugs, mineral crystal, and no lug-to-lug or thickness published. Bulova's page says splash resistant; the 30 m in the table is the brand's usual rating, not a figure on the page. The Tissot PRX quartz at $450 is the alternative for $100 more on list, with sapphire, 100 m and a published thickness; the Timex Waterbury at $149 is the dress quartz for less. The Sutton's trade is that almost nothing about it is stated; the return is the sale price.

The Brew with the full luminous dial, and the cheapest chronograph the brand makes: $375, 38 x 41.5 mm, 10.4 mm thick, 50 m, sapphire, on a meca-quartz chronograph whose calibre the page does not name, with a 22 mm quick-release leather strap. Espresso and Technicolor dials are the same price; the Cobalt was sold out at check. It is the thinnest Brew by 0.35 mm and the widest, 2 mm over the Metric. Dan Henry's 1962 at $290 is the meca-quartz chronograph for $85 less, on a named Seiko VK63 with a K1 mineral crystal and a published 45.9 mm lug-to-lug; the Brew has the sapphire and the lume, and no lug-to-lug at all.

The solar diver to buy at $429, and the middle of three answers Vaer gives to one design. Stated as USA assembled: 39 mm, 46 mm lug-to-lug, 11.96 mm thick (13.18 mm with the crystal), 200 m, single-domed sapphire with anti-reflective coating, Super-LumiNova X1 in 20 layers, a lumed ceramic bezel, 20 mm lugs, two straps, Epson VS22 solar quartz. The same case is $729 as the D5 with a Miyota 9015 and $239 as the Hong Kong-assembled DS2 quartz; a 42 mm version is $449 to $479. The alternative for the money is the Islander Northport at $449, a 9015 automatic on sapphire. The D4's trade is the quartz; what it keeps is the assembly line.

The one to buy if the appeal is the 1980s prototype-racer look in aluminium: $450, 38.5 mm, 40 mm lug-to-lug, 11.4 mm thick, 50 m, sapphire, quartz ana-digi with a 1/100-second chronograph, alarm, 3 time zones and an EL backlight, in anodised aluminium (gold, grey or silver) with a 316L caseback, on an FKM rubber strap tapering 20 mm to 18 mm. The 40 mm lug-to-lug is the shortest on this site for a case this size; it fits a 6-inch wrist. Casio's GA2100 at $110 is the ana-digi for a quarter of the money with 200 m; RZE's UTD-8000 at $279 is titanium and 200 m. Autodromo's $450 buys the aluminium, the sapphire and the design.

The ISO-compliant diver on the page, and the only entry with a 5-year warranty: Citizen E168 Eco-Drive solar, 44 mm, 49 mm lug-to-lug, 12 mm thick, 200 m, mineral crystal with anti-reflective coating, unidirectional bezel, 20 mm lugs, a 6-month power reserve, $450 list on citizenwatch.com and $360 on Citizen's own sale on the check date. Long Island Watch showed an older $395 list and a $296 sale, sold out. The mineral crystal is why it sits this low, and the Vaer D4 at $429 is the sapphire solar diver for the money, 5 mm smaller and 3 mm shorter lug-to-lug. At 49 mm lug-to-lug it is a large watch, and the ISO rating is what the size buys.

The only Swiss-made watch under $500 in this data, and at $450 the quartz answer to the Tsuyosa's shape. Swiss quartz, three hands and date, 40 mm, 10.4 mm thick, 100 m, sapphire, Super-LumiNova on the hands, 316L steel with an integrated bracelet on a 12 mm attachment. Tissot publishes no lug-to-lug. The PRX Powermatic 80 automatic in the same case is $850 on tissotwatches.com, 10.93 mm thick; the $484 one incumbent list carries for it is a 2024 number. Against the Citizen Tsuyosa at $495, both are 40 mm, which is the one dimension both makers publish. The PRX's trade is the battery; what it keeps over the Citizen is Swiss made, a published thickness and $45.

The Metric proper, and the reference for the range: $475, 36 x 41.5 mm, 10.75 mm thick, 50 m, sapphire, Seiko VK68 meca-quartz, 19.85 mm lug, on a steel bracelet with a folding clasp and micro-adjust. Bloom, PVD Black, Teal and Yellow, Star, Gold and Black, Retro and Steel are the same $475. The 19.85 mm lug is the figure to note before buying a strap. Against the Retrograph the $100 buys the VK68 by name, 2 mm less width and the bracelet. Against the Vaer RS1 at $279 the Metric is $196 more for a 36 mm case and the espresso-machine design the brand exists for.

The Metric in its Retro Black dial, reference METRIC-BLK, at the same $475, and the one row where the maker's product feed gives less than the product page: the Shopify listing states a 36 mm size and a price, and nothing else. The movement type in the table rests on the product being a Brew chronograph, not on the fetched text. A buyer should read it as the Chromatik in another dial, 10.75 mm and 50 m on the VK68, and check the product page before relying on that. The Super Metric at $475 is the same money with every figure stated. Same case, same price, different dial, thinner paper trail.

The Metric with the pusher done in anodised aluminium and a quick-release bracelet: $475, 36 x 41.5 mm, 10.75 mm thick, 50 m, sapphire, Seiko VK68, 19.85 mm lug, 316L steel. Royal Blue and Burnt Orange were in stock at check; Lumina Yellow and Electric Blue were sold out. On the sheet it is the Chromatik to the decimal, and the $0 difference is the point: choose between them by dial and by whether the bracelet's quick-release matters more than the Metric's micro-adjust clasp. The Dan Henry 1964 at $310 is the 38 mm meca-quartz alternative, with a mineral crystal and 2.15 mm more thickness.

Sold out at check, listed at $495, and the only Brew whose case is not steel: titanium in a gun-metal tone, which the maker says is 40% lighter than steel, on a titanium bracelet, 36 mm, meca-quartz (VK68 by the Metric line's spec, not stated on this page). Thickness, water resistance and crystal are not in the feed text, and the table does not assume they match the steel Metric. The $20 over the Chromatik buys the material and, for now, a wait. RZE's Valour 38 at $399 is titanium with every figure published, 38 mm by 45 mm and 100 m, if titanium is the reason and a chronograph is not.

The smallest and thinnest Seiko diver in the data, and the thinnest watch on this list at 11 mm: 38 mm, 46 mm lug-to-lug, 20 mm lugs, sapphire, 200 m, a V147 solar movement Seiko rates at ten months of reserve. The price needs a footnote: Seiko USA's product page returned a 404 on the check date, so $495 is Long Island Watch's stated list, where it was sold out; the black-dial SNE573 on silicone lists at $475 there, on sale at $380. The 42.8 mm SNE589 is ISO 6425 certified and $525, just over the line. For $66 less the Vaer D4 is the same 46 mm lug-to-lug with USA assembly and a ceramic bezel.

The cheapest Unimatic at $515 (€430), and the way to have the Quattro case for $140 less than the automatic: 40 mm, 49 mm lug-to-lug, 12 mm thick, 22 mm lugs, 300 m, Seiko VH31A quartz with a sweeping seconds hand, 2.8 mm flat sapphire, fixed monoblock bezel, Super-LumiNova C1, sandblasted 316L, on a black nylon two-piece quick-release strap. Numbered in yearly batches. Against the UC4 Classic it is the same case with quartz in place of the NH35A and sandblasted rather than brushed, 1.7 mm thinner. The Vaer C5 at $349 is the solar field watch for $166 less, at 100 m and 1 mm shorter; the Unimatic's $166 is 200 m of rating and the Milan assembly.

The solar diver to buy at $525, and the thinnest 200 m watch on the page at 10.7 mm. Seiko V157 solar quartz, ISO 6425 certified, 42.8 mm, 49.2 mm lug-to-lug, sapphire, LumiBrite, unidirectional bezel, 20 mm lugs. The price needs its source: seikousa.com returned a 404, so $525 is Long Island Watch's list figure, sold out on the check date. Against the King Turtle at $650 it is 2.5 mm thinner and $125 less; the Vaer D4 at $429 on the under-$500 list is the solar diver for less, 3.2 mm shorter across the lugs. The trade is a 49.2 mm lug-to-lug, the longest on the page.

The Marathon to buy if the tritium matters more than the movement: $550, 41 mm, 48 mm lug-to-lug, 11.5 mm thick, on an ETA F06.105 quartz. The case is CeraShell, a bio-sourced plastic loaded with ceramic powder, and the bezel is a bidirectional 12-hour aluminium ring, so it tracks a second time zone the way no other Marathon here does. Water resistance is 60 m, enough for rain and a wash, not for the pool. Unimatic's UT4 is the quartz alternative at $515 with 300 m and a steel case, 1 mm longer and without tritium. The Navigator's argument is the tubes and the material; the trade is the 60 m.

Retired, and on the page because it was the entry to the brand: CHF 460 before tax was its list, $570 as the maker's page shows it to US buyers, still marked Retired on the check date. Seiko VK64 meca-quartz, 38 mm, 46 mm lug-to-lug, 11.5 mm thick, 50 m, sapphire with anti-reflective and anti-fingerprint coatings, 20 mm lugs, 316L steel. The Rosso Grigio above is the in-stock equivalent at $725, same case and movement, $155 more. Buy the Rosso Grigio if the case is the reason; hunt the Mr Grey only for the dial. The trade is that the price here is history, not a listing.

The quartz Uno at $620 (€520), and the sensible way into the diver if the automatic's $140 buys nothing you want: 40 mm (41.5 mm across the bezel), 49 mm lug-to-lug, 13.2 mm thick, 22 mm lugs, 300 m, Seiko VH31A, 2.5 mm flat sapphire, a unidirectional 120-click countdown bezel with a matte black insert, Super-LumiNova C1, sandblasted 316L, black nylon two-piece strap. Numbered in yearly batches. The UC1 Classic is the same case with the NH35A, a double-domed crystal and C3 lume for $140 more; the sheet is otherwise identical. The Vaer D4 solar at $429 is the alternative that never needs a battery, at 200 m and 3 mm shorter.

The chronograph to buy under $750 for a small wrist: 45 mm lug-to-lug on a 39 mm case, 10.9 mm thick before the crystal, 100 m, and $645 as charlie-paris.com shows it to US buyers (€425 on steel). Seiko VK64 meca-quartz, domed sapphire with anti-reflective coating, Berlaglow lume on hands and indices, 20 mm tool-free straps in steel, nylon or leather. The Furlan Marri Rosso Grigio below is the other VK64 on the page at $725: 38 mm, 46 mm lug-to-lug, 50 m, $80 more. The trade is a quartz heart under mechanical pushers, which is what meca-quartz means; the return over the Furlan Marri is 100 m and $80.

The Furlan Marri to buy at $725 as the maker shows it to US buyers (CHF 585 before tax), and the reason is the case: 38 mm, 46 mm lug-to-lug, 12 mm thick, with round pushers on a 316L case. Seiko VK64 meca-quartz, 50 m, sapphire with anti-reflective and anti-fingerprint coatings, on a burgundy and grey leather strap tapering 20 to 16 mm. The Ardesia Blu, Nero Sabbia and Castagna dials are the same price. The Charlie Paris GR at $645 is the VK64 alternative with 100 m for $80 less; the Furlan Marri's trade is 50 m, and what the $80 buys is the dial and the pushers.

The rose-gold Furlan Marri, same $725, same VK64, and the 4N rose gold PVD case is the whole difference from the Rosso Grigio above. 38 mm, 46 mm lug-to-lug, 12 mm thick with the crystal and 11.5 mm without, 50 m, sapphire with anti-reflective and anti-fingerprint coatings, a decagonal screwed caseback, 20 mm quick-release beige and brown leather tapering to 16 mm. Choose between the two on the case colour; the sheet does not separate them. The Charlie Paris Initial Cœur Ouvert at $695 is the other dress watch here for $30 less, an automatic; the Sabbia Rosa's trade is plating, which wears, and a quartz heart under mechanical pushers.

The only Swiss movement in the regular lines, and at $760 (€640) the same price as the UC1, so the choice is quartz with a second zone against an automatic without one: 40 mm, 49 mm lug-to-lug, 22 mm lugs, 300 m, a Ronda 515.24D quartz GMT with a roughly 45-month battery life per the brand, 2.5 mm flat sapphire, unidirectional 120-click countdown bezel, Super-LumiNova C1, sandblasted 316L, black nylon two-piece strap. No review fetched gives a thickness for this reference, so the column is blank rather than borrowed. The Vaer G5 at $989 is the automatic true GMT for $229 more; the Islander NH34 callers start at $369.

The chronograph at $840 (€730), an edition of 250, and the longest Unimatic at 51 mm lug-to-lug by 2 mm, which settles it for most wrists under 7 inches before the movement comes into it. 40 mm, 13.7 mm thick, 300 m, Seiko VK64 meca-quartz (battery timekeeping, mechanical chronograph module), 2.5 mm double-domed sapphire, a unidirectional 120-click bezel with a sandblasted aluminium insert, Super-LumiNova C1, brushed 316 steel, olive drab seatbelt NATO with a spare black NATO. Lug width is not stated on the page. Lorier's Gemini at $499 is a hand-wound mechanical chronograph for $341 less; the Unimatic's $840 is the case, the rating and the number on the caseback.

The cheapest Ikepod at €690 on the maker's site, quartz, in a 42 mm lugless pebble that the listing says appears as 39 mm, with luminous hands and a second-generation case described as thinner without a figure. Case material, crystal and water resistance are not stated. The Tom Christopher edition is €890 in 111 pieces. For a quartz at this money Autodromo's Group C is $450 at 38.5 mm, 40 mm lug-to-lug and 11.4 mm in anodised aluminium with 50 m, and Brew's Metric Lite is $375 on a Miyota 6T27 automatic. The Duopod is €690 for Newson's shape and a battery, with three blanks on the sheet; the shape is the whole purchase.

The only quartz watch in this section, and the $895 is a retailer's figure held as list because bulova.com returned a not-found page for every URL on the check date. 43.5 mm, 20 mm lugs, 50 m, sapphire, a fixed bezel, Bulova's NP20 quartz at 262 kHz, a bracelet and a NATO in the box. Neither lug-to-lug nor thickness appears in the listing, two dashes on a 43.5 mm chronograph, where they matter most. The Studio Underd0g at $800 is the mechanical chronograph for $95 less, 5 mm smaller with every figure published; the Bulova's trade is the blank columns and the size.

The mecaquartz chronograph at €790, six dial variants at the same price and marked last items in stock: 44 mm, 316L steel, Seiko VK63 with a day-night indicator, in a pebble case by Emmanuel Gueit. Crystal, thickness and water resistance are not stated. The VK63 is a $279 movement in Vaer's RS1 at 40 mm with 100 m and a $310 one in Dan Henry's 1964 at 38 mm; Furlan Marri's mecaquartz on the sibling VK64 is CHF 585 at 38 mm, 46 mm lug-to-lug and 12 mm with 50 m. €790 is the top of the VK63 market by a distance, and Furlan Marri publishes every figure the Ikepod omits.

The one non-mechanical entry, here because Seiko publishes the full sheet where several mechanical rivals on this page do not. 41.2 mm, 48.5 mm lug-to-lug, 12 mm thick, Seiko 3X62 GPS solar, 100 m, sapphire, titanium with Seiko's super-hard coating, LumiBrite on hands and indexes, $2,200. No lug width is published. It is the entry-level Astron; the range runs $2,200 to $3,300 on the US site per a search snippet. The Grand Seiko SBGX261 quartz at 37 mm is the watch most people weigh it against, and it is $2,700 on the live page, over the line, against $2,300 in Grand Seiko's own November 2024 price list. The Astron is the one that sets itself; the Grand Seiko is the one with the name.

The cheaper Grand Seiko and the one with a rating you can write down: 100 m, against the "splash resistant" the SBGW301 above offers for $2,300 more. 37 mm, 44.6 mm lug-to-lug, 10 mm thick, 19 mm lugs, 9F62 quartz rated to plus or minus 10 seconds a year, sapphire, steel, $2,700 on the US site. Grand Seiko's own November 2024 price sheet had it at $2,300; the live page shows $2,700. The Cartier Tank Must SolarBeat above is $1,700 more for the other serious quartz on the page. The 9F is the reason to buy; the rise is the reason to check the page first.

The mechanical-quartz Tank Must Large, $3,900 at Mayors because cartier.com/en-us redirects the reference to a page that errors. 33.7 by 25.5 mm, 6.6 mm thick, 30 m, Cartier's high-autonomy quartz, steel, on leather; the case column carries the 33.7 mm length. Crystal, lug width and lume are not on the retailer page. The SolarBeat above is $500 more on cartier.com itself for the same case and thickness with a photovoltaic movement and a non-animal strap. The Grand Seiko SBGX261 above is $1,200 less for a quartz rated to 10 seconds a year and 100 m. The SolarBeat is the same shape with a price the maker will confirm.

The one quartz entry and the thinnest watch on the page at 6.6 mm, $4,400 on cartier.com/en-us. A 33.7 by 25.5 mm steel case, 30 m (3 bar), SolarBeat photovoltaic quartz, on a non-animal strap; the table's case column carries the 33.7 mm length. Cartier's page does not name the crystal. The US SolarBeat large is now reference WSTA0122; the WSTA0059 that older lists cite appears only on the UK and Swiss sites. The mechanical-quartz Tank Must Large is $3,900 at Mayors, an authorised retailer, because the cartier.com page for it errors: same case, same 6.6 mm, no solar cell. The Santos de Cartier Medium at $8,400 is the Cartier automatic, on the under-$10,000 list.