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Tim's Late Model Bargain Hunting: Modern "Vintage" Watches With Future Appeal
In the age of vintage watches that rival the value of real estate, professional vintage counterfeiters, and breathless real-time hype of marquee auction results, it's easy to feel alienated by the mainstream of the watch collectors' movement. Many who love watches for every reason except money are left ruing missed opportunities and wondering where to find value in the current market for collector watches.But there's good news for rank-and-file watch enthusiasts. Despite the growing gulf between mortal budgets and market-acknowledged "classic"watches, the late model preowned watch market offers as much variety, quality, and satisfaction as the vintage scene.
Hands-On: Tutima Saxon One Chronograph Watch With Racing Red Dial
Tutima has been expanding the color options for a few of its collections in recent years, and the brand has been executing these pretty well. A few months back, we took a look at the green Flieger 6105, which is one of the brand's entry level offerings and one of the best values in the category available - it was on our list of favorite watches from Baselworld 2019. Also shown at last year's Baselworld is this ruby red Saxon One Chronograph that is a bit more divisive in nature but a lot of fun at the same time.Red dial watches are still on the periphery as far as current trends go, but we've been seeing more and more of them (the TAG Heuer Monaco 1979-1989 comes to mind). It's all in the execution, and I think Tutima succeeds in what it calls both "racing red"and "fire engine red,"which is pretty close to ruby red to my eye. There is some good contrast with the red on the sub-dials being a bit lighter and brighter than on the rest of the dial. Overall, I find that the distinct case of