Titanium watches under $3,000

What the top of this budget buys

This list is cumulative, so most of it sits well under the ceiling: 90 percent of these 796 references are $2,000 or less. The 82 between $2,000 and $3,000 (10 percent) are what this budget buys that a $2,000 one does not, at a median of $2,409.

• Lightest in the band: Lebond Attraction (33 g)
• Most water resistant in the band: Andersmann Deep Ocean ANN0913 (3000 m)
• Thinnest in the band: Casio Oceanus Manta OCW-S6000 (8.7 mm)