: Looking through this site has prepared me to
: make a decission on which watch to buy. I
: really want an Automatic, but I couldn't
: live with the thing loosing 4 or gaining 6
: seconds a day. My old seamaster wind-up
: looses 40 seconds a day which is driving me
: nuts!
My WIS journey started almost 3 years ago when then Quartz Tag Heuer I had had for 9 years kicked the bucket for good. I looked for a diver watch to replace my Tag and the SMP Bond caught my eye! I fell in love with the full size auto but somehow my head took over and convinced me that (since I had never had an auto my entire life and I was so used to having the accuracy of a Quartz) loosing 4-5sec a day would drive me nuts!...So I bought myself the Quartz bond SMP. Furthermore, my mind also congratulated itself for paying less to get a more accurate watch!
Anyway to cut a long story short - I was never really satisfied with the Quartz SMP, in less than six months I sold it to buy an X-33 (I figured if I was going to keep a Quartz watch then hell, it had better be one of the finest out there). Anyway, 3 weeks ago, I bought myself the BOND SMP Auto and it has stayed on my wrist ever since... buying and expensive wristwatch is an illogical decision (its hard to justify paying anything more than $50 for an instrument to tell time). And the heart rules in the domain of illogical decisions, it is the part of our body which creates these desires. So my advice is, when you come to choosing between watches, go with the one your heart trully desires because your heart can always reason with your head but your head can never reason with your heart.
