46mm Hamilton Men's Broadway Automatic GMT Watch (Black Leather Strap)

The frontpage listing title doesn't include the size, they seemingly added 46mm to the deal title AFTER that guy commented.

Why would you just assume that it was a "GUY"? Shame on you!

Same price on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Hamilton-H...B07K9MCYVY

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This watch is a steal at this price. The movement is an H-14, which is a modified ETA (ETA, like Hamilton, is owned by the Swatch group, along with a bunch of watchmakers like Omega, Tissot, Longines, Rado, Certina, Glashutte Original, etc.) The movement has an 80 hour power reserve (very good), is a traveller's or "true" GMT, meaning the local hour jumps rather than the GMT hour, which is nice if you yourself are travelling, as when you change timezones, it's very easy to adjust the watch. A lot of cheaper GMTs are caller GMTs rather than this format. In those watches, the GMT hour jumps.

There are some downsides, imo. The first is that it's really big. Giant watches were very popular, and to many they are still popular, but watch size is a bit of a fad thing, and the fad is for smaller watches lately. If you're very big, or just prefer large watches, then ignore all of that.

The other downsides of this watch relates to the movement. The escapement is synthetic, which is a nice way of saying plastic. Watch nerds don't like this because they're masochists who probably got mad when they removed the choke lever from cars. And they suspect that the plastic will not be robust and durable, although I don't know there's any reason to actually believe this. Additionally, the balance doesn't have a regulating stud. It's regulated at the factory by laser. You cannot regulate it yourself. Since like .01% of people actually regulate their own watches, it's probably no big deal to most people. But if you do find it's running too slow or fast for your liking, the only thing to be done is to send it to Hamilton or a local watchmaker who will just put a new movement in it, or at least a new balance complete. If you can source a movement yourself, you could do that yourself, but without an ETA parts account it'll be hard to find one. So the movement is kind of disposable in a way that other mechanical watch movements are not. It's really a stupid thing to be obsessed over to be honest, but as I mentioned, watch people are really weird and self-destructive, and with watches, tiny details are often massively amplified.

46mm. Just saying…

Any comments on this piece from the watch crowd? To me, style over most everything for a watch and I personally like this, but I'm not a huge watch guy