10 Of The Best Watches Under £10,000
You’ve scrimped, you’ve saved, you’ve sold your grandma and now you’ve got a sizeable amount to spend on a watch. Bearing in mind this is the kind of money you could splurge on a first-class-all-the-way trip around the world, you’re not going to put it all on black, so to speak, without mulling things over.
The good news about watches under £10,000 is that this price bracket comes with plenty of choice. You’re not in precious metal territory yet but, thanks to this sector being mostly about the mechanics, your complications options include super high-tech chronographs, second time zones to GMTs. Your style options are broad, too – from dress to diver you’re bound to find something to suit.
You also get your pick of some of the big names, the luxury watch brands everyone will recognise around the boardroom table. The only decision really is do you spend the whole lot at once. Or keep some back for the next addition to your watch wardrobe?
Piaget Polo S
Just sneaking in under the threshold is this sporty little number from Piaget. The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that it bears more than a passing resemblance to a certain Genta-designed fleur-de-lys branded watch, but you won’t be buying one of those unless you’ve got a spare £23,000 lying around. So, there’s this instead.
It’s made from the same metal, is powered by Piaget’s in-house 1110P and looks great with absolutely everything.
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Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Small Seconds
Born on the polo pitches of India at the request of the British soliders stationed there who were fed up with their watch crystals getting destroyed by flying balls and wildly swinging mallets, the Reverso is now a day watch and a dress watch in one.
Its elegantly elongated rectangular case is instantly recognisable and, although Jaeger-LeCoultre has added complications and colourways, there is something perennially desirable about this simple steel version. And it has the added retro touch of being manual wind, so you’ll have something to do while you wait for your perfectly mixed after-match gin and tonic to be mixed.
