Buy the watch you like - Chateau Sportsmen World Time

As a watch collector I'm constantly evolving and my taste tends to change from time to time. For some time now I really been wanting to ad a skin diver watch into my collection. The problem is that the one I have my eyes on, the Oris diver 65 cost over $1,000 and I'm in no position to spend the amount of money on a luxury item at the moment. Therefore I followed my own advice and started looking in the vintage world. The minute I laid eyes on this Chateau sportsmen worldtime watch I fell head over heels for it. I've never heard of the brand and even after some google searches got very little information on it aside from what the seller had listed. However the price point made it very attainable, the patina on the tritium lume featured on the indices, numbers, and hands were super charming. The red bidirectional rotating bezel with the different cities printed on them was something I've never seen on a watch of this price point. Not to mention that awesome broad arrow hour hand that reminded me of the omega 300 and the cool all red number date wheel, acrylic crystal featuring a magnifier for the date and the tachymeter printed on the inside of the dial. I just knew I had to have it even if it wasn't a watch with much pedigree, as it does feature a Rhonda manual wind movement with only 1 jewel. The watch measures in at 36mm and 40mm lug tip to lug tip, and has 19mm lugs and I think it look fantastic on my 6 7/8" wrist, it looks classy yet sporty and it's super comfortable to w