What was the size of your Santos? I’m looking at the current one in medium, looks pretty decent to me.

Did you sell it to buy something new instead or just didn’t like the watch as much anymore?

I love how retro-stylish Citizen looks on this photo! Editing is really on point 🤌

I’m sorry, but why would you care if it’s the hard-to-get model or not? Isn’t it enough that you like the watch? Do you care that much about resale value or what is the issue?

Yeah, I had to use freight forwarding shipping to get one, but I live in Ukraine, unfortunately almost nothing ships here because of war 🥲

Hope you’ll get one and love it!

Well, that highly depends on what are you after.

I see you have a Seagull 1963 Moonphase too, so you must be interested in mechanical complications as well. I am pretty much fond of my Seagull, it was a second watch in my collection and I've received the brew a few weeks after it. Even though they're both chronographs, they're very unlike. Yes, Seagull has a beautiful column-wheel mechanism compared to the mecha-quartz (I wouldn’t say it’s the same as quartz btw) one in Brew, but to me it’s the only advantage. The case finishing, dial details and strap (mine had a poor quality NATO one, didn’t like the color & feel) look cheaper to me. Also, if something goes wrong with it, the service might be multiple times the price of the watch itself, which bothers me quite a bit, because it breaks the logic of a timepiece that’ll last you a lifetime. I always get a feeling with a Seagull that it’s a nice watch, yes, but an expendable one, so I don’t have a strong attachment to it.

Brew on the other hand is quite precious to me. This watch/brand is because I have started collection at all, since I’m into coffee brewing and I wanted something in a watch to be connected to that. It looks distinct, has a great bracelet (esp. for a price) and it doesn’t show that much it’s a quartz because main chrono-second hand works as a mechanical one. Because of its uniqueness in design and theme, it’s the watch I would left in my collection if I had to sell all others. Yes, it would be better to have some kind of limited edition with automatic movement, but it’s a great watch nonetheless. I know many other models that cost around 300-400$~ with similar or same movement, so I wouldn’t say it overpriced, at least I never thought so. Sorry for a long speech, but it’s always interesting to me to express some thoughts on this matter :)

Hi!

It’s hard to recommend something not knowing what your interest are. That said, currently Metric is the favourite piece in my collection and I would definitely love to buy another model from Brew. Hope that helps!

Brew definitely makes interesting watches, especially design-wise!