The Best Accessible Watches Of 2025

While we tend to cover a lot of very expensive watches on a regular basis, and prices generally seem to be on the up-and-up year after year, it’s comforting to know some brands still excel at good, honest, value-for-money watchmaking. This year, established names are joined by a few new ones to offer a rather broad selection of styles, but also materials and complications. Rounding up 2025’s finest value propositions brings us not only a sleek and stylish dress watch, but also a chronograph, a full titanium case and bracelet watch, and even a ceramic one! So without further ado, here are the watches we picked as the best accessible mechanical watches of 2025!

Tissot PR 516 Automatic CHRONOGRAPH

First up is Tissot and its cool racing-inspired PR 516 Automatic Chronograph. The follow-up of the PR 516 Chronograph Mechanical from last year, this one unsurprisingly comes with an automatic chronograph movement inside. Still relying on that 1970s racing-inspired design, it changes things up with a new white-and-blue colour scheme and a super cool Jubilee-style stainless steel bracelet. Size-wise, we’re dealing with a diameter of 41mm and a height of around 14mm, so it’s slightly thicker than its manually-wound counterpart. Nevertheless, it packs great wrist presence and should fit most people absolutely fine. At EUR 2,145, it’s the most expensive on this list but still a cracking deal!

For more details, check out our hands-on story right here.

Raymond Weil Toccata Heritage

Raymond Weil made one of the most impressive comebacks to the spotlight of accessible watchmaking with the Millesime collection, and continues to make an impression with the Toccata Heritage range. This sleek dress watch has an elliptical case in steel, or optionally with a rose gold PVD coating, of just 6.95mm in height, largely due to the slim manually wound Calibre RW4100 (Sellita SW210-1B base). With nothing more needed than hours and minutes, it hits the mark as a classically styled pure dress watch. Worn on a leather strap with copper, silver or blue dials, or a stainless steel multi-link bracelet exclusive to the blue dial, it retails between EUR 1,495 and EUR 1,625, which is amazing value for money.

For more information on the fabulous Raymond Weil Toccata Heritage, check out our video review here.

Citizen Zenshin 60 Super Titanium

Citizen are masters of affordable watchmaking, but the brand’s expertise goes well beyond just accessible prices. The Zenshin 60 Super Titanium reaffirms the brand as masters of titanium as well, offering a good-looking sports watch in full super titanium (so extra hardened) for just EUR 499! The design is spot-on, and comes with fresh coloured and nicely textured dials. A neat touch is the small seconds subdial offset between 4′ and 5′. The watch wears lovely and compact, thanks to the 40.5mm diameter and 11.25 height, and is worn on a full titanium bracelet with a folding clasp. The movement is done fully in-house and has a power reserve of 60 hours. Talk about ticking the boxes…!

For more details, check out our Introducing or Buying Guide stories.

Alpina Heritage Tropic Proof 34mm

At Watches & Wonders, Alpina introduced a compelling and very faithful reissue of the Tropic Proof. Even though it’s a very simple watch up front, with no apparent frills or distractions, the Tropic Proof won us over with its 34mm wide and 9.25mm slim frame, as well as the ultra-clean and legible dial. As part of the Heritage Collection, it perfectly rekindles a historic Alpina design from the 1960s. Available in white and black, powered by the manually wound AL-480 calibre (Peseux 7001 base) and worn on a beige Alcantara strap, it retails for CHF 1,795. Some might argue that it doesn’t make this the most attainable time-only watch out there, which is correct, but to us, it still offers tremendous style at a sensible price and genuine heritage to look back on.

For more details, check out our hands-on write-up here.

Earthen Company Summit

New to the game is the Earthen Company, an initiative co-founded by THC Hong Kong co-founder Johnathan Chan. The brand’s debut watch, the Summit, perfectly captured that essential field watch spirit and blends it with a touch of modernity. It all comes down to a ceramic case, which comes in either white or black and with three dial options. When you hear ‘Ceramics’, you might assume it has a four-digit price tag at least, but that’s not the case here. Earthen Company managed to price the Summit at just USD 899, which makes it one of the most affordable ceramic watches out there! It also sits lovely on the wrist thanks to a 38mm diameter and 10mm height. Power comes from the Miyota 9039 automatic, so it’s reliable too! Quite impressive!

For more information on the Summit by Earthen Company, check out our hands-on review here.

Vaer G5 Pacific Steel 39mm

Last but certainly not least is the Vaer G5 Pacific Steel 39mm. This attainable travel watch packs a Flyer’s or True GMT movement by Miyota in a rugged and good-looking stainless steel exterior, all for a price between USD 935 and USD 1,085, depending on the selected strap or bracelet. Sure, it might have a hint of the Rolex Explorer II about it when it comes to the bezel, but it still looks rather good overall! The black dial (it also comes in Polar white) is very clean and legible, the size is great, and the strap and bracelet options ensure a comfy fit. For us, the way to go would be the Jubilee-style bracelet, as they hardly ever disappoint, but we leave it with you to decide which combination looks best.

For more details on the well-rounded Vaer G5 Pacific GMT, check out our hands-on review here.