Love ikea designs and love a deal but I maybe unfairly assumed they used polyester for most or all of their bed linens. Will check it out!

Look for 18/8 stainless steel. It’s a good balance between price and durability/corrosion resistance.

I suggest looking for a brand called Mido. It's not as common in the U.S. They are part of the Swatch Group along with Omega, Longines, Rado, Tissot, Hamilton, etc. I was able to find an Ocean Star 200 online for $500 U.S. Full Swiss, day/date complication, and caliber movement.

IKEA has great deals and lots of choices

The comforters you can’t machine wash, but no comforter will last if you machine wash it anyway. That’s the nature of them. With wool ones you can let them air out outside to freshen them up and then if accidents do happen the company has a special process to clean them.

Red Land Cotton- my mom got us one of their covers for a wedding gift, absolutely amazing and their sheets are the bomb and feel super cozy. They have a lifetime warranty.

Frankenmuth Woolen Mill- best comforters ever, my wife hates sleeping with anything else. Keeps us the perfect temperature and they last for decades. They have been making them in the same factory for 125+ years. We love their pillows too.

Seconding a mechanical watch. It needs no battery and can be repaired. Seiko makes great mechanical watches.

I just got them instore a few years ago. You'd have to check their website. But they were cheap and you bought them by 4s or 8s of the single utensil you wanted if that helps narrow it down

Link?

Ikea has a good set of inexpensive cutlery. I've never found they look dirty.

Liberty Tabletop is the best

Birkenstock or suicoke. They're resoleable

Do they have lifetime warranties for issues like this? If so, then that’s still BIFL approved!

I’ve been using the same Kent comb daily for 15 years, and it’s still perfectly fine.

Do you want an automatic watch or does this not matter? (I am assuming automatic at this point but if it does not matter I have some other recommendations. Do note that if you buy an automatic, it will need to be serviced periodically.)

Automatic Seiko divers are exceptional products. I have an SKX-007 and Stargate that I absolutely love. Both have been replaced with different models but Seiko divers are still stellar, and they have product lines starting as low as a few hundred bucks. They also offer numerous models with automatic movements that aren't divers, some of which are very nice for an affordable price.

Orient, Bullova, Hamilton, and Tissot all offer some reasonably priced automatics that are well made. Longines is a bit above your price, but they make outstanding timepieces and are solid watches to buy used.

A bit above that and you could get a used Oris. I would recommend reading about their products. Their style is a love-or-hate but they make some awesome watches and are a stellar company with a huge presence in the watch community.

SEIKO, a great mechanism, so search for YOBOKIES, (bonus points for working out what YOBOKIES means ;-) ). He makes one-off customs. Read the WIRED article or some of the stories about him and find his site. I have two and bought large faces with big clear numbers for my parents.

Here for the citizen eco drive upvote , just got a leather band off Amazon to style it up

I love my Seiko 5, automatic movement means it is completely mechanical and does not need to be wound and does not require batteries. These range from $100 to $200 depending on which of many models in the series you like. My understanding is that they are not BIFL, more like buy it for a few decades before it will need a jeweler to disassemble, clean, lubricate, and reassemble (which may cost more than the watch cost but by then it’s sentimental value more than logic).

Okabashi or oka-b for sure

I wear one of their solar models daily. It's a great watch. Only three years so far, so not a BIFL recommendation yet. Still, I'm very happy with it

I paid less than that for my Glycine Combat 6, it's an automatic (self-winding) mechanical watch with a Sellita SW200 Swiss movement, a bronze case, green dial and leather band. You can also get a nice Seiko Presage for that price.

I'd suggest you check this filtered Chrono24 search, it's what I'd consider for your budget (new automatic mechanical watches from decent brands). Laco was one of the 5 original makers of pilot's watches for the Germans (A. Lange & Söhne, Laco, Stowa, Wempe, and IWC). Lange and IWC are out of sight expensive. Pilot watches have a certain rugged and sporty charm that would seem more like your style coming from a Casio.

I omitted Seiko because they have too many cheap Seiko 5 models, which are OK, but I'd rather get a Presage for that price.

i corrected myself

Op said under €500 would be nice though

Any G shock square that is Bluetooth enabled.... reason being you will have the newer display/light and you can switch the month and day around. As standard they are solar powered and 200m water resistance. You can drop these things off building's and they will survive. Spend £100 on the gshock and save up the rest for your holy grail watch whatever it may be.

uh oh not under 500 Euros 😵‍💫