Amen. I hate nixon with a passion...trendy garbage watches.
Thats a rolex DSSD, retails for over $10 000...highly doubt you have that watch if you don't know what it is
Ces trois montres la ensemble valent environ 20 000$.
Honestly op don't get a Nixon. New, within your budget you'll find hamilton (excellent quality, swatch group brand), tissot (same as hamilton), citizen and seiko do make good affordable watches but the finish gets scratched up pretty bad pretty quickly and citizen's crystals aren't anything to write home about. If you want an automatic watch with swiss movement in the 500-700 range new I would suggest debaufre/steinhart. They aren't as well known as other major brands but do offer a good quality product.
Steinhart watches
Debaufre watches
If you're looking at used high quality watches then a quartz breitling or omega seamaster can be had for 1000-1500 bucks. I just sold my first gen Omega seamaster blue dial for 1000$ after upgrading to a current model.
Here's a pic of what you can get used for a grand:
Honeslty for used watches there's just a ton of information on this site:
Watchuseek watch forum
Go in the private sales section ans search away...I bought and sold a few 1000$+ watches on there and most people are actually there to share a hobby. Scammers do exist so you have to ask the right questions for sure but that's probably your best bet.
And since the Seamaster is pobably my favourite watch, here are a few kijiji links to some used watches for sale. Watch out for fakes one of them (New in box never opened for 1000$) looks like a fake.
http://montreal.kijiji.ca/f-omega-seamaster-Classifieds-W0QQKeywordZomegaQ20seamasterQQSortZ4
PM me if you have any questions.