Mmmmm interetsing comments.
I agree with your comments on the whole stainless and mechanical way to go. Also agree with the older watch being better.
At the moment, I wear a new ish (18 month old) sea dweller for every day wear, not as many around as the submariner and less obvious as it does not have the cyclops eye. Like em or hate em it's like having money in the bank. I bought it new with a discount
and now that list prices have gone up I know I could get all my money back on it if I decided to sell it.
For best, I wear an Omega wind up moon watch, unfortunatley it's only around 4 year old. Will not hold the same value as a Rolex, but, love the history and build quality of the watch.
Now if you could track me down a good quality moon watch from around 1969 ..... that would be interesting.