2 Watches Under $1,000: HSS On Time - He Spoke Style

Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of HSS on Time. Today we're going to talk about two watches under a thousand dollars that would be perfect under the Christmas tree. So as I've gotten into watch collecting and developing my own collection I've sort of become a go-to guy for a lot of my friends looking to start their own collections and in many cases they never had a really nice watch and in many cases they don't want to spend a whole lot of money and talking to a lot of my friends it seems like right about a thousand dollars or under is what they'd be willing to spend or now that we're in the holiday season what their wives or their girlfriends are interested in getting them something that's sort of what they would be comfortable spending as well so today two watches at that price point that I think are really good buys. So the first one we're going to take a look at is by Tissot. Now this is the Tissot Carson Powermatic 80. It's an automatic watch with an 80 hour power reserve. It's a really beautiful looking watch. It's a steel case with a pvd coating 40 millimeters and I have to say 40 millimeters can be sort of big it's like about my breaking point for how big of a watch that I'll wear but this one at 40 millimeters wears a lot smaller than 40 millimeters suggests. It's a really really nice dial with roman numerals for the hour indices. The hour and minute hands look really nice and one thing I really want to point out here is the date window. A lot of people can get kind of hung up on the date window thinking that it you know really kind of ruins the harmony of a dial but this one is very subtle. It's at three o'clock and and you really hardly notice it. It does nothing to ruin the way the dial looks in my opinion. This also has a see-through case back and a brown leather strap. It's a really handsome watch. If you're looking for something to wear every day but that you can also dress up the Tissot Carson Powermatic 80 is a fantastic option. Now the other watch we have here is by Bohm and Mercier and this is an update to their Classima series. This is the My Classima. Again this is a stainless steel watch. It has a stainless steel band. Also comes with a leather band as well a black leather band. Also a really really elegant dial and again the date window is very subtle. It doesn't do anything to ruin the harmony of the dial in my opinion. This watch is much thinner than the Tissot. This is a 5.6 millimeter thickness whereas the Tissot watch is 9.6 millimeters in thickness so it wears a little bigger on the wrist but the Bohm and Mercier again is a very versatile watch. If you get it with the black strap I think you could wear it in more situations but the stainless steel strap is my personal favorite. I really like the way this watch looks. Now the trade-off with the Bohm and Mercier is that it's a quartz movement. The Tissot is an automatic movement. Bohm and Mercier is a quartz movement. So if that's a priority for you to have an automatic watch I would go with the Tissot but the Bohm and Mercier very elegant. So price point under $1,000. The Tissot Carson Powermatic 80 retails for $725 and the Bohm and Mercier is $990. So those are two really good options. If your significant other is looking to put something nice for you under the tree send them either of those two. Whatever one you like I think you can't go wrong with either one of those picks. Thanks for watching.