Tonight, Tim offers a list of the best $3,000 luxury watches to buy with your tax return check. For tax season 2021, Tim has gathered a list of affordable Swiss watches from Omega, Breitling, Longines, Mido, Meistersinger, and Ball. From dive watches to pilot's watches and dress watches, too, Tim has a recommendation for every kind of watch collector on a budget.

Further, Tim will discuss which luxury watch bracelets are the best on the market; Audemars Piguet, Rolex, Omega, Vacheron Constantin, and Carl F. Bucherer are on the list. Finally, watch collector wrist shots from our global audience will be shared throughout the show.

The Omega Seamaster Diver 300M 2531.80.00 is the best dive watch available for $3,000. This preowned Omega watch hails from the halcyon days of the Pierce Brosnan's 1995-2002 run as James Bond. Initially launched at Baselworld 1993, the 41mm Omega Seamaster Diver 300M became the "James Bond Omega" after four appearances on the wrist of Agent 007.

As a James Bond watch, this Seamaster did more than honor the legacy of the long-running Omega dive watch; it put Omega's star product on par with former James Bond standby, Rolex. Now a silver screen star like the Rolex Submariner, the Omega immediately ranked higher on the shopping lists of watch collectors.

Like the current Omega Seamaster Diver 300M, the 1993-2006 model is packed with value and clever design. For 2018, the well-loved Omega "wave" dial returned, and today's example shows where that celebrated cue began. Furthermore, a 300-meter water resistance rating and helium escape valve put the diving capability of the Seamaster squarely between Rolex's Submariner and its more expensive Sea Dweller.

Omega equipped the Seamaster with a robust stainless steel bracelet and a diving clasp. The former was a five-link design that split the difference between a dress watch and a diving watch. The clasp was a robust assembly with trigger release, a single folding deployant, and a fold-out diving extension. All components were built with such solidity that Rolex Oyster bracelets of the 1990s immediately felt obsolete by comparison. Rolex' s substantial upgrades to clasps and bracelets in the 2000s were a direct consequence of Omega's 1993 Seamaster.

While not a manufacture, Omega provided the Diver 300M with a high grade automatic mechanical movement. Omega caliber 1120 (post 1996) was a modified and upgraded ETA 2892-A2 intended expressly for the Seamaster. Its upgrades included an extra two jewels, a more robust winding system, custom finishing, and highest-grade components to enable a COSC Swiss chronometer certification. Power reserve was 44 hours to the standard 2892's 42, and the Omega-spec. ETA is renowned for its accuracy and durability.

The best $3,000 watches also include the Meistersinger Salthora X jump hour dive watch, the Longines Monopusher Pulsometer, the Breitling Aerospace, the Ball Engineer II Magneto S, and the Mido Ocean Star Chronometer.

Which watch brand makes the best bracelet? Tim also explores this question with view to finish, robustness, and features.

Every modern Rolex watch impresses with its bracelet solidity, but the Rolex Deepsea Sea Dweller offers Rolex's most impressive range of bracelet features. Audemars Piguet is known for the finish bestowed on its Royal Oak watches, and the Royal Oaks join their bigger brother, the Royal Oak Offshore, on Tim's bracelet honor roll. Omega watches are the traditional rival of Rolex, and Omega lives up to that billing with Seamaster and Speedmaster bracelets that feel every bit the equal of those from Geneva.

The third generation Vacheron Constantin Overseas collection boasts class-leading bracelet quality that rivals sports watches from Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet. Carl F. Bucherer's Patravi Scubatec dive watch receives honorable mention for a bracelet and clasp that are exemplar for their retail price.

Watches mentioned include the Omega Seamaster 2531.80.00, the Longines L2.801.4.23.2/4, the Meistersinger SAMX908, the Ball NM3022C-N1CJ-BK, the Breitling E79363101C1E1 and E79363101B1E1, and the Mido M026.608.11.041.00

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