Your budget is whatever you paid for all your watches combined.
For me it would be the Laco Flieger Pro hand-winding no logo.

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    A restored and fully operational original Poljot Sturmanskie. Not only is it the first watch worn by a human in space, it’s also one of the most iconic soviet watches. I’d love to get one one day.

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            You do always get some radiation from Radon gas diffusion. Enough to make it illegal to import into the EU now without expensive testing, still orders of magnitude below background radiation.
            The people who really suffered from it were the women who painted the dial.

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              They put the radium paint brush tip in their mouth to fine it to a point easier. The radium salt went through their oral issues and was incorporated into their jaw as radium acts like calcium, which got blasted apart from alpha radiation.

              With an intact crystal, you mostly get some beta radiation beaming out of the watch face and some light gamma radiation emanating from the watch like a bubble.

              I bought an old aircraft instrument gauge today, now the radium in that makes the Geiger counter tick a bit more than a wrist watch!

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      That is the strangest 2 I’ve ever seen. The 0 in 10 is also a bit weird. They distract me from the rest of the piece, which is otherwise pretty decent looking

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      Now that’s a proper grail watch. One that is actually hard to get, not just expensive.

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        Sadly yes, at least in decent condition. You can buy used ones fairly easy, but fully restored, and in good condition? Quite hard.