I wear a simple Timex Trail Blazer with 12/24 hr dial, luminous and with indiglo. I prefer the analog, though I've noticed some people in their teens and early twenties can not tell time by them.

I only buy my kids analogue watches

Casio MTG-900 has been my watch for a few years now.

The pros are...
-Solar recharge
-Atomic time update
-Metal band
-G-shock
-Waterproof
-Lighter than it looks

The one con is...
-No countdown timer

By the way, I have several cool watches in my watch drawer. Each requires a regular battery. The last battery died a few years ago. I haven't bothered replacing any batteries since I got this Casio, the only watch I wear. I use this Casio to set the time on other clocks and watches.

If this watch fails, I will buy another one, instead of trying to repair. I have already gotten my money's worth and then some.

good move denis.

I think you need to figure out what you want out of a watch, first, or else you'll continue to be overwhelmed.

My daily watch is a Marathon Navigator's wrist watch (no date, unlike the link)
http://www.marathonwatch.com/product/navigator-quartz-date

My dress watch is a Citizen Eco Drive Titanium; like this, but silver backing. http://www.citizenwatch.com/en-us/watches/watch-detail/?model=AT0940-50E#filters=0940-50E

I forgot to mention, my dress watch is a Tissot PRC 200. I really like it too and haven't run into any problems with it (unlike my string of bad experiences with my casual watches), but I am thinking that is likely due to its sapphire crystal which is supposed to be much tougher than regular mineral crystals.

That said, it was a gift and, where I'm at now, I don't know that its in a price range I'd personally be considering if I was shopping for a new watch .

Like Denis and others I like a basic watch. I wear the same one for outdoors, daily wear and dress. Mine for the last decade or so has been a Seiko like this one

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/like/350809876558?clk_rvr_id=604689189941&crlp=1_262691&mt_id=641&mid=428969&sdc_id=1395163709z232702z4d073b0a818zzz&fitem=350809876558&linkin_id=8080378&kw={query}&crdt=0&sortbid=13

only with a stainless bezel and a (or many) Zulu nylon band. No batteries, rugged (I have broken a large number of watches), easy to see at night, has a rotating bezel and date (all I NEED). It meets all my needs very well. The sapphire crystal is hard to scratch (and I try). If someone wants to give me a nice dress watch like Denis got, I am sure I would wear it once or twice a year.

Respectfully,

Jerry

On of my buddies had a Tissot Automatic Mechanical (Slightly different face bought 5 years ago), a really nice and handsome attractive watch, but he said it spent more time at the Jewelers getting the movement repaired as it would either lose or gain 5-15 minutes each day. I think he's now wearing a Timex.

Glad to here you've had no problems with yours. The clear glass backside of the watch showing the movement was really cool!

Appalling, an affront to the memory of John Harrison and his H-series clocks.

I bet they wouldn't have clue how to use a sextant either for navigation and they wear Velcro shoes.

My Tissot is not an automatic; it has a quarts movement. I expect there's less potential for things to go wrong with this type of model.