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I would suggest the Victorinox or Tissot lines if you want Swiss & relatively easy to find, Sector is another good one that not too expensive, some of their watches are Swiss made. I have a beater Sector that I wear in my workshop - it's seen grinding, welding & general metal fabrication and it still looks perfect. Otherwise Orient is nice and affordable and there are plenty of niche brands at that price point that sell direct (edit - echoing others, apparently....). Also look at Maranez, which makes really unique brass cased automatics with sapphire crystals. Here's mine - https://www.massdrop.com/talk/17732/wrist-check - the brass corrodes which eventually results in a really nice patina. Might not be your thing, you can always polish it... on second though, maybe you do enough of that already ;-) AFAIK, they make a steel version. You can also look at second-hand watches. I have a couple of nice '80s vintage Omegas that were relatively cheap, although older watches will be smaller and generally don't have sapphire crystals. Depending on where you deploy, you might be able to find good second hand watches overseas. Finally, you can get watches customized. A cheaper Seiko diver can be retrofitted with a sapphire crystal, better lume and new hands, making for a completely unique watch. @psulick3 has a really nice example here https://www.massdrop.com/talk/12653/wrist-check/2279148 (was wrong ref, now fixed)
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