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5:45 AM
Hi, Good Morning!
I am looking for a wrist watch to buy. I need a very lightweight and minimal fashionable one. Which it does have a dark background color and hands should be in pure white color. Also it shouldn't mention the numbers. Can anyone help me?
 
6:21 AM
@JudeNiroshan I'd check online. Where are you located?
Oh, Sri Lanka.
 
@FaheemMitha Appreciate your attention. I'm in Sri Lanka. Very close to India
 
Does Amazon India deliver there?
 
@FaheemMitha yes
So far this is what I found. >http://www.amazon.com/Alessi-AL13003-Stainless-Steel-Leather/dp/B000QXBIOI/ref=‌​swr_wa_2_ses
But it's too expensive!
I was looking for something like this. Better if the watch face is totally plain dark one. Only the nice handy hands moving on it. yes. That's I really need. My budget it around $10 - $15
 
@JudeNiroshan Post the link on a separate line.
 
6:24 AM
$10-15 is quite low, if you want something reasonable. You might be better off looking locally.
@JudeNiroshan That's Amazon, not Amazon India.
 
@FaheemMitha I don't know about the pricing. Ok. at least will I be able to buy it under $20 ?
 
@JudeNiroshan No idea at all. Have you tried looking locally?
But even in India, $20 isn't a lot of money for a watch.
 
@FaheemMitha not yet. One of my friend had like that. And he told he bought it on Ebay. And he said he had only spend $4 for that !!!
 
Doing a search for "stainless steel watch" on Amazon India gives:
This one looks a bit like your description.
 
6:28 AM
And also gets fairly good reviews. Titan is a reasonable Indian brand. I doubt you could get anything halfway reasonable much cheaper.
 
I don't want branded watch. Just to wear it only to look the time
 
@JudeNiroshan You also don't want a piece of junk that will crap out in a few months.
I wouldn't buy anything less than 4 stars myself. And I'd prefer something with a fair number of reviews. Say >= 20.
 
@FaheemMitha yes. But I have other good wrist watches bought by my brother. I am just looking for a fashionable one.
I never done online shopping before
 
7:01 AM
@JudeNiroshan There's a first time for everything.
@JudeNiroshan You have a wrist watch already? Then why do you need another one?
 
7:37 AM
Because it's not mine. Sometimes he wants it
 
7:57 AM
@JudeNiroshan I see.
An example of phrases I hate: "knowledge worker".
 
8:14 AM
@FaheemMitha as you said first I'll check in local
 
@JudeNiroshan ok. Where in Sri Lanka do you live?
 
Colombo
 
8:25 AM
@JudeNiroshan That's the main/capital city, right?
 
@FaheemMitha yes. I think I should do a little research on this. I have to go to few shops and check it out
 
8:43 AM
@JudeNiroshan That's probably a good idea. But I would also spend some time looking at Amazon India.
You might also consider Flipkart. But I prefer Amazon, personally. Does Sri Lanka have any online shopping portals?
 
9:05 AM
@FaheemMitha yes. ikman.lk
 
@JudeNiroshan ok
 
 
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1:04 PM
@Cindy Hi
 
 
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6:00 PM
@JudeNiroshan you cannot beat Casio for affordable, reliable watches. Try this one:
Do not buy a super cheap no name thing. That is what's called a false economy: it may be cheap, but it will cost you more in the long run because it will break in 2 months and you'll have to buy another.
Take it from a man who owns about 26 watches.
 
 
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9:09 PM
@ElendilTheTall How many if those are in working condition?
 
 
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10:45 PM
@ElendilTheTall Pointing someone in Sri Lanka to something on Amazon is not directly very useful, because the shipping charges will overwhelm the cost of the actual product.
The Titan watch I mentioned is quite reasonable. Titan is a reasonably good quality brand of watches here. Nothing fancy, but reliable, I think.
@ElendilTheTall Yes, that is obviously true.
@JudeNiroshan That's an obviously true comment by Elendil. If you buy a piece of junk, it will probably just die on you soon.
I actually have a real life example of that. I bought a junky alarm clock once. It lasted 3 months before malfunctioning. I then bought something somewhat better (at something like twice the price). It died eventually, but I think it lasted 15 years (or something like that), before it did. So paying twice the amount gave a lifetime of roughly 60 times as much as the cheaper option.
@Stephie Probably all of them. I expect he wears them all at once, like Professor Branestawm.
Oh, and I think the somewhat better alarm clock was Seiko. They make pretty good timepieces. My current wrist watch is from them. Purchased in 2008, I think.
Still runs flawlessly.
Of course, their watches cost more than $20.
It's this one:
Purchased for $200 in March 2007, actually. From a place called bluedial. Excellent watch.
The Amazon picture is a little distorted. The curves on the right appear more extreme in the picture than they are in real life. It might be an angle thing.
This watch also keeps excellent time.
 

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