 Hey, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of HSS on Time. Today, we're going to talk about two watches under $1,000 that would be perfect under the Christmas tree. So as I've gotten into watch collecting and developing my own collection, I've sort of become a go-to guy for a lot of my friends looking to start their own collections. And in many cases, they never had a really nice watch. And in many cases, they don't want to spend a whole lot of money. And talking to a lot of my friends, it seems like a right about $1,000 or under is what they'd be willing to spend. Or now that we're in the holiday season, what their wives or their girlfriends are interested in getting them something, that's sort of what they would be comfortable spending as well. So today, two watches at that price point that I think are really good buys. So the first one we're going to take a look at is by Tiso. Now, this is the Tiso Carson Powermatic 80. It's an automatic watch with an 80-hour power reserve. It's a really beautiful looking watch. It's a steel case with a PVD coating, 40 millimeters. And I have to say 40 millimeters can be sort of big. It's like about my breaking point for how big of a watch that I'll wear. But this one at 40 millimeters wears a lot smaller than 40 millimeters suggests. It's a really, really nice dial with Roman numerals for the hour indices. The hour and minute hands look really nice. And one thing I really want to point out here is the date window. A lot of people can get kind of hung up on the date window thinking that it really kind of ruins the harmony of a dial. But this one is very subtle. It's at three o'clock and you really hardly notice it. It does nothing to ruin the way the dial looks in my opinion. This also has a see-through case back and a brown leather strap. It's a really handsome watch. If you're looking for something to wear every day, but that you can also dress up, the Tiso Carson Powermatic 80 is a fantastic option. Now the other watch we have here is by Bowman Mercier. And this is an update to their classima series. This is the My Classima. Again, this is a stainless steel watch. It has a stainless steel band. Also comes with a leather band as well, a black leather band. Also a really, really elegant dial. And again, the date window is very subtle. It doesn't do anything to ruin the harmony of the dial in my opinion. This watch is much thinner than the Tiso. This is a 5.6 millimeter thickness. Whereas the Tiso watch is 9.6 millimeters in thickness. So it wears a little bigger on the wrist. But the Bowman Mercier again is a very versatile watch. If you get it with the black strap, I think you could wear it in more situations. But the stainless steel strap is my personal favorite. I really like the way this watch looks. Now the trade-off with the Bowman Mercier is that it's a quartz movement. The Tiso is an automatic movement. Bowman Mercier is a quartz movement. So if that's a priority for you to have an automatic watch, I would go with the Tiso. But the Bowman Mercier, very elegant. So price point. Under a thousand dollars, the Tiso Carson Powermatic 80. Retails for $725. And the Bowman Mercier is $990. So those are two really good options. If your significant other is looking to put something nice for you under the tree, send them either of those two. Whatever one you like, I think you can't go wrong with either one of those picks. Thanks for watching.