The Best Entry-Level Luxury Watches for Starting a Collection

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If you are just at the start of your watch collecting journey, it is perfectly understandable to be a little anxious about some of…

luxury watches

have never been cheap, and it is true that there are a number out there which sell for the price of a pretty decent house - but not all.

Virtually every brand produces a catalog of models which range in value; extraordinarily expensive at the top end, surprisingly affordable at the other. Of course, that term ‘affordable’ is open to interpretation. You won’t be finding anything under the four-figure mark, but it might be a pleasant revelation as to how low into that territory you will be venturing.

The other thing to remember is that these manufacturers have garnered the reputations they enjoy today, most of all, through an obsessive dedication to quality. Just because an entry-level watch removes a zero or two off the end of the asking price compared to the flagship pieces, it doesn’t mean they have been thrown together halfheartedly. They will still have been designed and built by the same people, in the same facilities, and (generally speaking) with many of the same materials as models costing thousands of dollars more.