OK my little watch story.
A few years ago whilst living in the middle east i soon realised that compared to UK prices certain makes of watch where available locally for very attractive prices, one of the best deals was on Raymond Weil, which where often much less than half UK retail, even the higher range Parsifal's. Me and my mate popped down town one day and bought one each of the same basic model, but slightly different coloured faces, straps , etc. The models in question where RW 'Tango' although they where the 100m models with screw down crowns, slightly better than the current Tango's available in UK at the moment. These watches had a retail price of about £600 on the UK high street, as mine was 'last years model' n-o-s i picked mine up for £150 in Saudi, fully certificated, warranty, genuine , etc.
My mate forgot to screw down the crown after adjusting his one day and duly went swimming,

, the watch got flooded and trashed the module inside, obviouslty the case, etc was undamaged. Expecting a hefty bill he took it back to the dealers for repair. The new electronic module cost him SR140 which is about £30 !, this price wasn't subsidised either, it was the actual retail repair price for a new module. A £600 watch with a £30 timepeice inside, pretty shocking really and just goes to show how much you are paying for the case, strap and badge.
I ended up buying 5 Raymond Weils during my last week there as presents for the family. Rather than spend £25 to get a battery fitted in one of my wifes at a dealer in the UK, i got it done at a shoe repairers instead ( cheap bast@rd

) . after a few months the watch leaked, obviously not money well saved as the repair bill cost me £115 to get the watch sorted by RW back in Switzerland. It came back looking like new, and with a full technical report, the repair was also guaranteed for 2 years. It still hacks me off to think though that had i had the repair done in a far off hot sandy place it would have only cost me £30, although i only paid £200 for the watch and it reatailed over here £750, A point to ponder ....
One brand of Cheap digiatl watches that i've always liked is Casio, some of the wacky features they put on their watches are mad, altimeters, barometers, compasses, heart rate monitors, map distance measurers !, the list goes on. One the subject of radio controlled watches I quite like the new Casio ones, so much so that i'm getting one for crimbo,
so many watches , so few arms.. it's just not fair..