Sometimes you gotta trust your guts. Especially when it comes to such a big purchase

The SARB017. I love mine on a bracelet, and it still has the proper Alpinist branding on the caseback instead of Prospex.

My Traska arrived with zero issues, not sure if others have had issues.

Traska Commuter. You have a selection of sizes and colour, the finishing is excellent, the anti-scratch coating works wonders, and they have on-the-fly adjustable clasps now. Plus Jon, the owner, is really great to work with and has always been transparent about the progress of the production. I am hoping to get an Astra in the future too, so it depends on if you want a more vintage look (Lorier) or a more timeless design (Traska)

I like this colour scheme better than the BB54 to be honest. The gold indices doesn't work with the bezel on the BB54 IMO, so I like this better.

Do you like colourful straps? White works better with more summery colourful straps IMO. White is inherently more versatile to me for that very reason. You can put black or brown leather on a white dial to dress it up, keep it on the bracelet for the GADA vibes, and put on colourful NATO/perlons to dress it down for a very summery look. Black dial can't do the last bit as well for me. But, if colourful straps aren't your thing, black is just a tad bit more sombre and handsome to me.

I disagree to a certain extent though. The Reverso and the Santos were sport watches in the days where sports were still played in relatively very dressy outfits. Both of them were designed in a time where almost every man had a suit and wore a suit regularly in town. I believed that the more formal culture back then influenced the design of the sports watches to still look coherent with the general outfits of the era. That, I believe, is why they work as dress watches today because a polo player of the 1930s would still dress more formally and more elegantly than an average person of the 2020s. Dress watches to me are primarily defined by their form and elegance, not by their antiquity or defunct utility. There will be a day where a Richard Mille would be considered a bonafide dress watch, but I dread for that day.

P.S. you can tell which side of "can you wear a dive watch with a suit" do I lean on, can't you? 😂