The Three Watch Assortment for $5,000: Reader Version – Chris W.

Junghans Max Invoice Mega Photo voltaic (white dial, Arabic numerals) – $1,100

Each assortment wants a excessive accuracy quartz watch, if solely to set your different watches to, and this Junghans matches the invoice handsomely. Should you disable the radio synchronisation, the watch will run +/- 8 seconds per 12 months (!) autonomously, which makes it slot proper between a Grand Seiko 9F and a Chronomaster A060 motion. 

That mentioned, this underneath the radar white dialled magnificence is product of polished titanium with a domed sapphire crystal and 50m of water resistance. At 38 x 8mm top, it wears like a dream due to the truth that it weighs solely 24 grammes on the provided leather-based strap. 

However this watch has extra cool options. The seconds hand ticks twice a second, and when it reaches the 58 marker, you possibly can see the minute hand transfer from the final marker to the subsequent in a single brief swoop, the place it’ll stay stationary for the subsequent 58 seconds. 

Because of the world broad radio synchronisation, this watch will all the time let you know the proper time and date. On a NATO it’s a pleasant informal watch, however on a flat leather-based strap it’s a dressy affair that may work in any enterprise or extra elegant setting. 

Should you hyperlink that with Junghans’ stellar fame in quartz expertise and the historic relevance of the Max Invoice bauhaus design, you’ve received an icon that’s sneakily very excessive tech.