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Originally Posted by Pig Farmer
The Breitling Chronomat Evolution is a nice sport/dress watch. Not extremely rare, but at the low end of your price range. The case is a little over 43mm so it is slightly larger than the Dayton (40mm), but not ridiculously large like some of the wall clocks people are wearing on their wrists these days.
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The OP excluded Breitling from consideration above.
As for size choices, that is another personal matter... But, for clarity, many watch companies today are trying to catch up and develop larger watches (without success IMHO), but they are actually mimicing the original sport-diving watch and are trying to catch up with the long history of tool watches, which date to the 1930's. The first diving watch was 47MM and is perfectly suited for the wrist. Italian design and Swiss craftmanship has produced some of the most beautiful timepieces and tool watches ever conceived. I have a hard time wearing anything below 44MM now as smaller watches feel so puny. But that's me and thankfully we can all choose what suites us as an individual.