That is an easy one for me. I have one dress watch that I only wear to formal occasions, which for me is almost never. I like the watch, and it's perfect when I wear a suite, but outside of that I prefer sports watches:

Beautiful watch.

All three are good choices. The JLC is definitely the most upscale, but you are paying for that. The question is if you get the Longines or the FC, will you constantly look at it and regret not waiting for the watch you really wanted? Personally I'd save up for the JLC, and probably get it on the secondary market. That being said, I think for $2500, the Longines gives you a lot for your money, beautiful watch and fantastic movement. Good luck.

I don't have one yet, but they are pretty high on my list. I like the history behind the company and what they have done with the peripheral rotor movements is outstanding. Getting something like a Manero Peripheral for under $10K, with an in-house peripheral rotor, in my mind is exceptional.

You can't go wrong with the AT. Fantastic watch, especially on the rubber strap.

I'll play along and chime in 🙂 I'm relatively new to the watch game (less than a year) so my approach is a little different now than say what I think it will be in 2-3 years. Over the last year, I've been building up what I will call a solid "base" collection, and will then add to it slowly over time. I'm not sure what number of watches that will be, but currently I'm at 10. I'm also like you and create lists, that I do a ton of research on before adding them to the list. I'm also constantly refining and changing it. This is my current "want to buy " list, not listed in any sort of priority order:

and I also have a "maybe" list, all of which were on the "to buy" list but have been bumped down, and I haven't ruled out purchasing yet:

Some of the items on the "to buy" list are just difficult to find. I won't use the "G" word here, but if I can find one, I will immediately buy it. For example the Ebel 3137240, is nowhere to be found currently, not surprising since there were only 40 made, but I know that if I can find one, I'll immediately jump on the opportunity. Others I want to wait and purchase on the secondary market when the prices eventfully come down. So the Breguet (2057ST/92/SW0) falls into that category. I also have enough wiggle room to allow for opportunities as they pop up, some might have seen my recent post where I have the opportunity to purchase an RGM Model 160. That wasn't even on my radar, but I'm evaluating that right now and might jump on it in the next few weeks.

Also at some point I'm going to try and limit myself to a rough yearly budget. But since I've been building the "base" collection, I'm not really limiting myself outside of what I considerable reasonable prices for the watches I'm interested in. I'm fortunate enough that I have the resources to do this. Cheers.

OK, just a little math on this. So each of the 20 people would get 18.25 days a year with the watch. And over 10 years this comes out to about $40/day. Hmmm... .maybe this isn't such a bad idea.