The Best Watches At Every Budget

Somewhere between a $20 Casio and a $10,000 Rolex, watches stop getting better at telling time. They just get more expensive. This is a climb up 13 watches, one price tier at a time, to find out where that line sits and what your money is actually buying on either side of it. If you want the best watch at every budget, this is the full ladder. We start at the $20 Casio F91W and work up through the Seiko 5 Sports, the Hamilton Khaki Field, the Longines HydroConquest, the Cartier Tank, both Tudor Black Bay divers, the Omega Seamaster and Speedmaster, the Rolex Oyster Perpetual, the Cartier Santos, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso, and finish on the Rolex Submariner at around $10,050. Somewhere in that climb you stop paying for engineering and start paying for a shape and a name. Once you can see that line, you know which watch is the best one for the money you actually want to spend.