Best digital pressure gauge

[Heavy tech]

I was on a hydraulics course last week and the instructor had a Parker SC-JR 8700 digital pressure gauge.
That thing was awesome. I have seen retail on them as high as $1500, but looks like you can scoop one up for $400-$500 online.
So is this gauge as awesome as it seems or is there better options out there? I like that I can go from 0-8700 psi in one gauge that should more than cover all the systems I expect to deal with. Does anybody own one of these or something similar? Your thoughts?


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[TheMangler]

You might be able to find something from Omega that is more accurate for the same or less money. Really depends how accurate it needs to be. I think that gauge is .5% of full scale.
Something like this is around 1000 new with a .05% accuracy. Unless that gauge does some other things?
http://www.omega.com/pptst/DPG7000.html