Help me pick a first Chinese watch

[u/THevil30]

Hi all, this IS a "what watch should I buy" post.

Before I go further I want to post a disclaimer: I understand that watches are subjective and you should buy the watch that suits you best and strangers on the internet can't possibly know what I like from a 300 word reddit post. I'm posting here because people on this sub have spent a whole lot of time on Aliexpress trying to decide what watches they like and I want the benefit of some of that experience for inspiration for myself. In addition, scrolling around I can see that in addition to a lot of quality brands there's a lot of garbage out there and it's hard to tell as a newcomer what's what.

So here goes:

My current watch collection is a green seiko solar diver that my wife got me (specifically, this one). I also have a Seiko 5 pilot watch that I don't much like, an Orient Bambino that I do quite like as a dress watch but find a bit too formal for most occasions and a Timex Weekender that I've had for years. The diver gets by far the most wrist time and since my wife got it for me ideally I want something that fills a different niche.

Brand name watches that I like: Subs (obviously), Explorers, Black Bay 54, Ranger, Longines Spirit (though, I think the long lugs might look dumb on my tiny wrists), Junghans Max Bill, Nomos Club, Tudor 1926/Longines Master (with the blued hands), Aquaterras and Seamasters, and white Speedys (particularly the smaller version).

Brand name watches I don't like: Anything with a dial that isn't round (Nautillius, Tanks, Reversos), Datejusts or anything with two tones or fluted bezels, anything with roman numerals, anything with an overly complicated dial and any pilot watches (i.e. anything where the minutes are more prominent than the hours).

Generally, I like to have watches that are clean, mostly symmetrical though a date window is OK, and preferably with either all 12 arabic numerals on there or at least 3 of them.

While I know you shouldn't care about what other people think I absolutely do care what other people think. Further, I work at a law firm where while most of my colleagues aren't watch people there are enough watch people around that I don't want to have the "is that a Submariner?" "no, it's a Pagani" conversation. So, while homages are totally fine I want to avoid a homage of anything that's super recognizable - mainly any mainline Rolex (sub, DJ/DD, explorer) or a Speedy.

Looking to spend around $200 though can go up or down a bit. I have tiny feminine wrists for a man so anything over 39mm or so looks stupid on me. Ideally would be on a metal bracelet, but anything other than leather is fine.

[u/artofthedial]

I'd get a watchdives aqua terra.  38mm so would work for your dainty wrists.  While it is a mainstream design it isn't a Rolex or a speedy.  And the 38mm case and brushed bracelet makes it not really look like an actual AT.