Posted: 3/5/2015 11:35:10 AM EDT
| Why the fascination, My self included. Less accurate. More maintenance. Why do we like them? |
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This is all my point of view:
1. I appreciate mechanics and mechanical engineering. As someone who works on watches (as a hobby), the details and precision is fascinating. To have something on your wrist that can keep quite accurate time with many moving parts is enjoyable. 2. I regularly wear a watch that turned 90 years old on January 16th. Mechanical watches properly taken care of essentially have indefinite lives, as far as we are concerned. Folks won't be wearing 90 year old quartz watches (when that time comes). 3. I'm not particularly interested in paying hundreds for some good looking quartz watches that can be nearly duplicated (regarding accuracy) by a $20 quartz from Walmart. 4. Quartz watches are disposable, which is where I value them. A watch I can see getting destroyed or possibly ruined would be a situation where I would wear it/buy it. If I was in a situation where I needed high accuracy, to the second, I would go high beat quartz. I believe I only have one quartz and it is a Bulova with a lowered frequency Precisionist movement. 5. Quality quartz watches are HIGHLY price inflated for their cost. I replaced a movement in a $500+ Movado watch for a coworker recently. The movement cost $20. That tells a lot, although some of the higher quality ETAs and such may cost $100-200. |