If all you want to do is tell the time quickly, a $10 quartz watch does the job just fine.
I am sure Vertu or some other ridiculous company will sell you your insane diamond-encrusted titanium penis size signifier with a touch screen and Android Wear integration, but it won't be any more functional than the regular version.
Also, Swatch have some very nice ones, with a VERY good price.
Simple, round, small.
With this round steel case, you could even exchange the wristband for a brown lethear one and get a more mature look (all this for only 30 bucks).
For comparison: My first two watches lasted 2 years each and costed me ~$10 a pop plus they had a WR rating of 300m. Sadly they looked kinda juvenile and I needed something with a little more status, but I'm leaning on just going back because they really worked!
I personally never bath with a watch on and never go swimming with this particular watch (I have another one that I use mainly for outdoor activities. A Casio rated to 100 meters).
I really dig watches, and when you start to collect some of them you actually find it's quite fun to chose the right one for the right ocasion! :)
For those of a certain extreme old age, say, over 30, one problem is not wearing a watch has been a display of wealth for some decades now. The signal is, "I don't wear a watch anymore, I pay an expensive cellphone contract instead". Last time I wore a watch was during the Clinton presidency.
For elders like me, wearing a watch would indicate I'm too poor to have a phone.
Put another way the first cell phone contract I was aware of, was four times our current cable TV bill. Or about ten times the landline bill. So that would be quite expensive indeed.
Most over 30 who want to show off their wealth actually do wear a watch, an expensive one at that. I don't know where you get this bs notion that NOT wearing a watch is a sign of wealth. You don't have to be rich to afford a $50-80/mo. contract but you do for that $100,000 Vacheron.
— Blake, Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)