You can only wear one type of watch for life… Andrew, Marcus, & Zach share their picks

You can only wear one type of watch for life… Andrew, Marcus, & Zach share their picks

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Dive watches, pilot’s watches, dress watches, etc. These are the various watch categories collectors canvas through to round out their collections. Now, before anyone craps their pants, no, we are not talking about one-watch collections today. Perhaps a topic for another time. Today, what Time+Tide Tribe trio Andrew McUtchen, Marcus Flack, and Zach Blass dig into is if you could only own and wear watches from one watch category, what would it be?

After listening to the gang share their categories, let us know in the comments what your category pick would be. And let us know who had the biggest cop-out answer.

Below, you can check out some of our latest buying guides to get your horological evaluation juices going.

8 of the best dive watches

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There’s a case to be made that dive watches represent the most popular genre in watchmaking. Not only are many of the most iconic timepieces of all time dive watches, but their inherent practicality makes them perfect daily wearers – even for those who barely take their watches for a dip in the pool, let alone for a serious dive.

5 of the best pilot’s watches to keep you on schedule in the cockpit

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Of all the sports watch categories, if dive watches are the most popular, pilot’s watches are likely the second most popular. For such a specific classification, pilot’s watches are far less homogenous in design than dive watches. Pilot’s watches can be chronographs, with or without slide-rule bezel models, more simple Flieger styles, or even timezone-hopping GMTs or world timers. At the end of the day, a pilot’s watch must be legible, if not large and legible, with a robust build.

9 of the best dress watches making sure you won’t be underdressed in any occasion

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As our classification of what formal attire consists of keeps changing, our definition of what constitutes a dress watch is changing, too. This was an arena once dominated by the kind of watches that traditionalists would approve of — exceedingly slender, leather-strapped pieces and pocket watches.

For more Buying Guides that showcase various categories and types of watches, click here.