Go Citizen Stilleto. Pretty cheap at around 5mm.

Though I would say the 3mm is actually better.

Or the new Citizen Shine which is 7.5mm. Though not waterproof, my friend gets hers wet with water on the dial all the time with handwashing and it's still fine.

 

Bulova CURV?

 

7.5mm about $150 various colors with an ETA E64.111 caliber.

 

Any watch Citizen markets as a "stiletto" should be thin enough. Frederique Constant also has a slimline quartz and Tissot has their Tradition line with a 5.5mm thick quartz.

 

Skagen makes some good looking thin quartz watches. Probably frowned upon here, but I like the watches and the designs.

 

The brand Bering, also makes some fairly thin watches in a similar style.

 

 

Railway watch ultra thin. 6.8mm is plenty thin enough.

Mondaine Ultra Thin Swiss Railways Watch Review - The Truth About Watches

The Mondaine Ultra Thin is a jumbo-sized 6.2mm thick timepiece that offers Swiss quartz reliability and the world's most legible dial. What's not to love?

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$150
Swiss Made
4.3mm

 

Citizen Eco Drive One

Eco-Drive One -Official Site [CITIZEN]

Eco-Drive One embodies our philosophy of “Better Starts Now”—the simple belief that it is always possible to make something better, and that now is the time to start doing it.

www.citizenwatch-global.com

1mm thick movement
Cases as thin as 3mm

 

You say no need to go SUPER thin, but it is very hard NOT to be compelled somewhat by a Quartz Watch so thin that its CROWN is almost thicker than the rest of the watch:

Titan Edge - the movement is less than a single millimeter thin, and the cased watch is barely less than 2mm.

 

Titan Edge - the movement is less than a single millimeter thin, and the cased watch is barely less than 2mm.

That is one seriously "skinny" watch. Probably disappears on the wrist given the size and weight I would guess.

 

Eterna Linea Museum Watch, just 0.98 mm thick

 

The problem with the Delirium IVs and the ones other brands sold is they are not wearable. The case flexes when put on the wrist, damaging the movement. Also, Renata stopped making the INDIVIDUALLY HAND MADE batteries for the Deliriums decades ago so new batteries are hard to come by and expensive to buy for the 1 month they last.

 

Bulova has few thin models and for sure their parent company Citizen is you best source for thin watches.
There are "thin lines" in Swiss quartz too. Hamilton come to mind.

 

Skagen makes some good looking thin quartz watches. Probably frowned upon here, but I like the watches and the designs.

Haven't really seen anyone rain on the Skagen parade here yet

The brand Bering, also makes some fairly thin watches in a similar style.

IIRC, Bering and Skagen may be the same company, rebranded. I remember seeing something somewhere when the designs of the two brands were compared. Not fully informed enough to call that a fact though

 

Haven't really seen anyone rain on the Skagen parade here yet



IIRC, Bering and Skagen may be the same company, rebranded. I remember seeing something somewhere when the designs of the two brands were compared. Not fully informed enough to call that a fact though

From googling around, it looks like Skagen is a subsidiary of Fossil and I could only follow Bering up to their parent company of Bering Time ApS in Aabenraa, Denmark. So I'm not sure they are the same company, even though a number of their watches do look very similar. However, there are also other watch companies making similar-looking watches such as Danish Design. So it may just be like how many so-called "bauhaus" watches look similar. Or there may be some connection that isn't so easy to google.

 

Although I’ve seen people say that it doesn’t deserve the premium over the alread-thin Stiletto, the Citizen Eco-Drive One is about as thin as you can get for a solar-powered watch: the movement’s about one millimeter thick with case itself being a around 3mm. You have to give up a seconds hand, though.

Some of the models are a bit eccentric—Roman numerals, brown dials, two-tone plating and the like, but many of them are more subdued. The titanium (extra lightness!) Eco-Drive One ref. AR5030-59L (publicity photo below) is on my want list, and has even been reviewed here.

 

Seiko sacm 171.

 

crop dust!

 

Some of the real thin Rado True models are stunning.

 

Certina DS Caimano Precidrive – just under 8 mm (7.95 mm) thin and you get excellent legibility plus High Accuracy Quartz via Precidrive. Mine is running at + 2 to 3 seconds per year.
Not to forget that Certina gives you good water resistance at 10 bar.