Watches and trucking, a thread for watch enthusiasts

[Trenero]

Today driving through Romania i realised that i'm elegant because elegance is an attitude and i have the attitude i have a genuine Golt.

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Jokes aside after this coincidence i was thinking,
-"could that be the watch of any of the SCS devs that worked on RttBs?"
-"Maybe some of the devs are watch enthusiasts"
-"i'm sure that there are a few watch enthusiast on the forum, so why not make a thread to talk about watches on the forum."

And here i'am starting a thread for everybody that like watches to talk about, and since this is SCS forum could be really interesting to talk about watches in relation to trucking, like what watch do you think is the perfect watch for trucking?
For example i think that in USA(ATS) with all the changes in diferent time zones a field GMT could be a great fit, but in Europe(ETS2) maybe would be beter a watch with countdown timers to track the driving hours.

What watch do you think is the ultimate watch for trucking?

By the way the IRL model of the watch in the ingame advertisement is an old Swatch from the Irony chrono collection called Dark Phoenix

[jdwarfer]

I have an Hamilton (Swiss made, originaly from USA) from a few years ago. I don't wear it anymore. I like watches, especially automatic ones, or unusual designs but since I don't have much money to spend on watches, and the ones I would fancy are very expensive, I only wear some chinese made smart watch xD

[Trenero]

Yes, watches are becoming expensive each year all brands bumped the prices of their low ranges without bumping the quality up, or they simply deleted the low range enterely, chinese watches come a long way and increased it quality a lot, there are a few brands that have more quality than the low end watches of reputable brands but for half or less than half the price.
For example in the past with the old Seiko 5 range(7s26 movement) watches were in the range of 80-200€ depending on the model and where you bought it but now that they "updated" the range image and the movement with the new 4r26 (NH35) they bumped the prices starting now at +300€, but the specs remain the same the only upgrades are because the of new movement (handwound and hacking) all the other specs like mineral cristal(Hardlex), deep rating, armis and clasp, the metal finishing quality remain the same as the old range
Practical examples can be the Seiko SNXS range that went from around 100€ to now more than 400€ only with the change of movement and new five logo, and the case of the SKX range is even funnier losing 100m of deep rating the screw down crown and the ISO diver certification but gained 200€ more on the process.
You can find a lot of chinese brands with automatic watches with the same movement (NH35) but with better specs like shappire cristal with AR coating, 200m deep rating, better armis(Clasp specially), screwdown crown, and better case finishing and all that for around 100€, and you can also find cheaper good automatics if you are satisfied with less specs like less deep rating, mineral cristal or no lume for example.

I have 2 chinese autos that i bought for daily use and i'm very happy with them, they are durable and up to the task surpasing my old Seiko 5 in many things, the only thing Seiko still have the edge is the brightness of the lume, and one of them come very close to that brightness, (both have around the same duration being visible all the night on the dark)

[Trenero]

Yesterday i was driving around Spain and i saw this add for a watch

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Sadly this time i don't have that watch on my wrist, in fact i don't have it at all is a bit out of my budget because i think the watch they used as example to create the add is a 44mm Breitling Chronomat with inverted panda dial, i think the reference is (AB011012/B967/375A)
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Do you know about more watches adverts in game? and wich watch models they used for it?