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The Best Luxury Dive Watches at Every Budget
Eight dive watches worth buying, from Seiko and Longines to Tudor, Omega, Rolex and Blancpain: what each does best, with live prices from our stock.
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How to choose a luxury watch: budgets, first watches, sizes, and the best dive, GMT and dress watches.
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How to Choose Your Watch Size: Case Diameter, Lug to Lug and Wrist Fit
How to choose the right watch size: measure your wrist, understand case diameter, lug-to-lug and thickness, and why shape matters, with a simple sizing table.
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Best Luxury Watches Under $5,000: What to Look At
Luxury watches under $5,000: the brands and models worth looking at, from Tudor, Longines and Oris to Nomos, Hamilton and Grand Seiko, and how to choose.
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Lug-to-Lug Explained: The Watch Measurement That Decides Fit
Lug-to-lug explained. What the measurement is, how to measure your wrist for it, why it matters more than diameter, and how to use it when you buy.
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Best Luxury Watches for Small Wrists: 12 That Fit Under 6.5 Inches
The best luxury watches for small wrists, from 35 to 39 mm. What makes a watch fit a wrist under 6.5 inches, and twelve models that do.
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What Size Rolex Datejust for a Woman: 28, 31 or 36 mm?
What size Rolex Datejust for a woman? The Lady-Datejust 28, Datejust 31 and Datejust 36 compared by wrist size, look, movement and references.
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The Best GMT Watches: Rolex, Tudor, Longines, Grand Seiko and Omega
How a GMT watch works, the difference between a "true" and a "caller" GMT, and the best travel watches at every budget with live prices from our stock.
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Ladies' Luxury Watch Buying Guide: Models, Sizes and What to Check
How to choose a luxury watch for women: classics from Rolex, Cartier and Patek Philippe, sizes, quartz or automatic, and what to check.
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How to Choose Your First Luxury Watch: A Step-by-Step Guide
How to choose your first luxury watch: set a budget, pick the right size and movement, decide new or pre-owned, and find the brands that match your style.
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The Best Luxury Watches Under $10,000
What $10,000 buys in a luxury watch: Rolex, Omega, Tudor, Cartier, Breitling, Grand Seiko and more, with live prices from our stock and how to choose.
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Best German Watches Under $5,000: Nomos, Junghans, Sinn and More
The best German watches under $5,000 from Nomos, Junghans, Sinn, Mühle Glashütte, Laco, Union Glashütte and Tutima, and what makes them different.
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Best Luxury Watches From $10,000 to $20,000: What to Buy
The best luxury watches from $10,000 to $20,000. Rolex sports models, Blancpain, Glashütte Original, Omega and Jaeger-LeCoultre, and how to choose.
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Best Luxury Watches Under $3,000: Longines, Tudor, Oris and Nomos
The best luxury watches under $3,000 from Longines, Tudor, Oris, Nomos, TAG Heuer and Rado, with what this budget buys and how to choose.
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Best Luxury Watches Under $1,000: Swiss, German and Japanese Picks
The best luxury watches under $1,000 from Hamilton, Tissot, Seiko, Mido and Junghans, with what to expect at this price and what to check.
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How to Choose a Dress Watch: Cartier-Style Classics and More
How to choose a dress watch: size, thickness, case shape, metals, dials and straps, the classic styles from Cartier's Tank to the Calatrava, and models to consider.