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1. How Much Money Do You Want to Spend?
   Luxury watches range from just under $1,000 to $100,000 and more.  Among the most expensive are the prized tourbillions, which only an elite group of master watchmakers has the skills to produce.  (The two hundred-year-old mechanism consists of a revolving carriage that holds the balance wheel and escapement and makes a complete turn every sixty seconds to average out timekeeping errors caused by gravity.)  A watch is inevitably a status symbol, and it's up to you to figure out what kind of status you want to symbolize. If you really serious, luxury watch makers are ready to accommodate.
   
   While we at poljotwatch.com do not have the $100k tourbillions for you, all of our wristwatches are high quality mechanical timepieces priced well under $1,000 and compare in craftsmanship to many luxury watch brands.
    
2. Steel or Titanium?
   Luxury and high-quality watchmakers, including Poljot, are turning out product in high-grade stainless steel, which is strong an shiny and highly resistant to rust and corrosion.  But the next major trend seems to be titanium, which is 30 percent stronger and 50 percent lighter than steel, more corrosion resistant, antimagnetic, and even hypoallergic.  A titanium watch does feel amazingly light and comfortable on the wrist, but the trade-off is a subdued - some say dull - gray watch, that for all its strength, scratches easily.
   
   Most of the Aviator and Poljot watches and chronographs are made out of high-grade stainless steel, but we have a few models made out of titanium.  If you prefer to really "feel" your chronograph on your wrist, as steel watches weight more, then check out for the Aviator, Navigator, or Buran lines.
    
3. Mechanical or Quartz?
   The movement, which is the engine of the watch, measures time in one of two ways: electronically or mechanically. In an electronic watch, a paper-thin piece of quartz is given an electric charge that causes it to vibrate 32,768 times per second. This makes it accurate to within a minute per year. A mechanical watch has a mainspring whose gradual unwinding moves the watch’s hands. Mechanical movements are either hand wound or automatic (also called “self-winding”), meaning the movement winds itself using a rotor that spins in response to the natural movement of the wearer’s arm. Mechanical watches lose an hour a year.
   
   We specialize in mechanical watches, so all Poljot watches are mechanical with complicated movements. Our movements are highly accurate with an average deviation of -10 to +20 seconds per day. We make both automatic and hand wound watches.  If you would like to learn more about our movements, please visit our About Our Movements page.
    
4. Simple or Complicated?
   In watchmaking terms, a complication is any function beyond simple time telling in a mechanical watch, such as a calendar or a moon-phase indicator. Usually, though, term refers to sophisticated mechanisms like perpetual calendars and split-second chronographs, which contain hundreds of tiny parts hand assembled by the world’s most accomplished watchmakers. Because they are so labor-intensive, complicated watches are expensive and prized for the feats they perform.
   
   Most Poljot watches are “complicated” – many are chronographs with various capabilities, like dates of the month, military time indicators, and moon-phase calendars – all hand-crafted in Russia with the help of high-precision Swiss machinery.
    
5. Big or Bigger?
   Over the last few years, men’s wristwatches have grown as if on steroids; they broke the forty-millimeter diameter a few years ago and are still pumping up. The reason? Mostly style. The current trend was largely inspired by the recent reissue of an old Italian diver’s watch, which was originally designed large so it would be visible in the murky Mediterranean. These days, if your watch looks like a hockey puck on your wrist, you’re horologically chic, if a bit showy.
   
   Aviator and Poljot watches are designed in line with current watch trends and styles. Most of our models are bigger than 38 millimeter in diameter, with some reaching 42 millimeters, so you do not have to worry about not being horologically chic. The large Poljot watch cases serve dual purpose - they are practical for easy reading of the instrument dials and they look very good on your wrist.
    
6. Round or Square?
   Round is still the most common face shape, but a revival of alternatives is afoot. The tonneau (shaped like a barrel) is leading the nonround-watch pack at the moment, but your options include rectangles, squares, and ovals, among others. Many people will size a man up by his watch, so consider an uncommon shape might set you apart from the masses.
   
   We offer various shapes for you to choose from. The most common is round, but if you are interested in tonneau, there are a few great models in the Buran line.  If tank square is your style, Navigator Ocean, Alpha and Military chronograph models are available for you.
    
7. Do I Need a Chronograph?
   Most guys prize chronographs – timepieces with a stopwatch function – thanks to the macho, sporty look of all those buttons and subdials. They are also functional and can time an event to one fifth of a second for mechanical chronos and to one hundredth of a second in digital quartz chronos. But unless you’ve just signed up for the Ironman, they’re mostly for adornment.
   
   Majority of what we make are high-quality Poljot chronographs.  The Poljot 3133 chronograph movement and its complications, like the 31681 and 31682 are well-known to watch collectors around the World.  Recently, the WatchTime magazine named the Russian Poljot 3133 mechanical movement one of the 28 most popular complications and more important chronographs on the market.
    
8. Five Bars or Twenty?
   Watches have different levels of water resistance, indicated on the dial or case back. Pay close attention to that fine print, because the depth units are anything but universal. Most companies give water resistance in meters. Occasionally you’ll come across ATMs (for atmospheres) or bars, both of which are equal to ten meters. Once you’ve done the match, choose a depth based on you needs.  Water resistant to fifty meters means that you can expose the watch to some water, like a light summer shower or water splashes while washing dishes in the sink.  Sports watches generally have hundred-meter (swimming, snorkeling) or two-hundred-meter (recreational scuba diving) water resistance.
   
   Poljot watches are generally rated 30 to 50 meter water-resistant.  If you'd like to learn more about what you can do with a watch depending on its water-resistance characteristics, please visit our Water Resistance Guide.

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