Why the Best Watches aren’t Quartz
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2019
- Watches 101, Episode 1: Understanding the difference between mechanical, quartz, and automatic | TimeKeeper
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I love the combination of quartz & mechanical which is kinetic from Seiko, And they introduce quartz that started the quartz crises. I really admire the Japanese in their art of making watches. Precission, accuracy, durability at any price level...
I really enjoy the format you are using for your videos. Please keep up the great content and Thank You!
Thanks I appreciate it!
This was a beautiful video, and it made me appreciate watches a lot more. Thank you!
Your channel is awesome. You’re doing a great job making interesting content. I subscribed and can’t wait to see more videos. Thank you.
Thanks Mihai I appreciate it!
This is good stuff man, you're great.
I love your channel a lot! Very didactic and interesting!
The attribution of "soul" is personal - some people feel as much of a connection to their first Casio and have become lifelong Casio fans in addition to their Grand Seiko 9F and their F.P. Journe 48mm; they are not mutually exclusive except to watch snobs. Soul is nice for automatics if you're prepared to deal with a $500 - $1,000 service just so it can keep inaccurate time, and forget about the flood of under $300 automatics; no one I know has ever paid going rate for services on an under $5,000 automatic.
How about the Seiko 5 automatic, are they worth buying? They're very popular at the moment amongst people who want an automatic but can't afford one of the more expensive brands.
@@Treviscoe they are great for the price. seiko 5 watche can be a lot of fun and can last for a realy long time whitout any service
I recently bought a Longines Hydroconquest 39mm Automatic. I was seriously considering buying the Quartz version for much lesser, but I knew I wanted my daily to be an automatic. The ritual of winding it everyday keeps me grounded. Rather than becoming an accessory I slap on my wrist without much thought, I take the time to 'wake it up' as I prepare for my day as well. When the day is done, it goes to sleep like I do (if I leave it be long enough). Having to wind it forces me to take a pause and remind myself that, like my watch, I too need to be prepared for the day. This isn't a lifeless consistent machine like I am not, rather it's like another entity that shares my days.
I love automatics for that reason, as I love my quartz watches for other reasons. Both deserve respect. Peace.
Is not an automatic if you wind it manually everyday, is it? Or i missed something?
@@LastVeteran Late reply, but it is an automatic in the sense that the rotor winds the watch through daily wear, but most automatics these days can also be hand wound which is useful to give a quick full charge, or bring it back from the dead if it is left motionless for a few days.
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Great video! Thank you!
I very recently ordered & awaiting an Orient Ray II Automatic. I've already been fascinated with watches, and this is my first venture into a timepiece that goes beyond the simple quartz. Something appealing about a watch having "soul" even if it's accuracy isn't WWV precise. A trip back to simpler times...
Thanks for the information. I am looking at both types right now for a high end dress watch and was wondering what the differences were.
The mechanical hand wound movement is a Sea-gull St36. Beautiful.
Fantastic!
Well said!
IMO, we're living in great times (har, har) when people have all sorts of super accurate digital tech at their disposal but can still satisfy that longing for a mechanical solution. And not just the rich: You don't have to buy a Rolex or a JLC to get an excellent mechanical piece on your wrist. I've been a quartz user for years and years (child of the 70s and 80s, go figure) but I am super-glad to have re-discovered mechanical watches. Perhaps it's just my imagination, but they do feel rather more special to me *because* they can be more temperamental and require a bit more attention.
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Thanks!
In my opinion, solar powered watches are the best .... They're superior in any way
Usually, the battery lasts more than a decade or two
Those Citizens
Eco Drive. i have one
@@AntonyThorburn I bought a Citizen Eco-Drive about a decade ago, I still use it ... They're awesome
But nothing beats solar G-shocks ... They're badass monsters :))
@@Armin.T9 i had a seiko black knight , ifor 12 years from new, i love my Citizen Eco Drive, sleeps at 2 am hmmm, but great.
In 2000 I bought a Yema Seaspider with a Seiko Kinetic movement. It's currently at the watchmakers for its first battery replacement (and a new sapphire crystal).
Explaining way and sweet voice.excellant.
I don’t know about the sweet voice, but thanks!
A really good video shortly explaining differences between quartz and mechanical movements, but still fully covering most important technical details.
Nevertheless, I wish to add up some more technical facts and my personal experience between these two movement types. One of the unmentioned but extremely important advantage of a high quality mechanical movement is its reliability, which actually is much better than the best commercially available quartz movement because most of the quartz movements rely on a battery power, and user never really knows the actual quality of the currently equipped battery and if the watch will stop suddenly because battery ran out much earlier than expected, due to a production defect of the battery itself. This why you would not wish to go scuba diving with a battery powered quartz diver-watch. But even if you just do a office business, it is really frustrating to find out that your watch started to run extremely slow or stopped, which happened to me couple of times because the battery was defected (stopped 6 months after last battery replacement, expected run out time was more than a year). A high quality and robust automatic mechanical movement will prove much more reliable in a way it will not stop while being on hand, at the expense of practically acceptable accuracy level of up to +4 s/d average deviation for the high-grade movements. In case that a good mechanical movement start to fail, usually this happens gradually by watch being more and more inaccurate or in case of weight-rotor fail it can be observed through the transparent caseback.
I wish to note that there are indeed autoquartz and solar powered quartz movements which do not need batteries, but they rely on additional and usually less reliable electronic components, accompanied by large capacitor, which together have a chance of randomly and suddenly failing after 5 years of running time, and the wearer can never tell if some of the electronic components is at the end of its life.
Finally, by my experience, the extremely cheap quartz movements are not that accurate. In my elementary and high-school days I had a 60€ robust chromed brass-case Casio quartz watch. I was disappointed that it gained a little bit less than a minute per month, and practically I needed to set it every month to the accurate time (for comparison a 130€ quartz based Festina, which I own, loses around 2 seconds per month). Also I have a nice brand new vintage looking quartz wall-mounted clock which gains even more than a minute per month. I also own a 50 year old hand wound vintage watch (Peseux 7050 movement) which is recently serviced and regulated so well that it gains on average a bit less than 2 seconds per day while wearing and while in resting position. This means that it gains less than a minute per month, better than those mentioned cheap quartz movements.
Excellent.
I like your summary of mechanical vs electronic. I have various watches, both analog and digital, but are all quartz. I now am beginning to understand the appeal of a traditional mechanical watch. The design has an honoured history, a heartbeat and a soul. I am going to venture into history again. I'm considering a Vostok, because of their long history of making mechanical watches, and also a Seiko 5, because I think they are an inexpensive example of precision and quality in mechanical watchmaking.
Both of your choices are excellent. The Seiko 5 is a more "polished" watch overall, but the Vostok arguably has more character.
Well done video. The whole “soul” concept when talking about watches is like bringing up religion or politics. Logic and reason get thrown out the window, replaced with feelings and emotions. For example, if a Rolex’s beat rate of 8 per second is more valued than a more pedestrian watch’s beat rate of 5 or 6 per second, then would not a Bulova Precisionist’s second hand beat rate of 16 per second be even more valued? How about the virtually infinite beat rate of a Seiko Spring Drive movement?
Correct. And sometimes watch manufacturers make watches whose balance wheels are purposely heavier and slower - but really accurate! Like Zenith, Vostok and WWII IWC.
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well done! :)
Hello,
I have recently come across this channel. Thank you for the explanation of the difference in watch movements.
I have a question:
I have fallen in love with a 1 hand style watch (Kulte Silver Generation), I was wondering if Botta-design is considered to be a good manufacturer of watches.
For clarification I am a budget, low end shopper. I don’t want to spend more than $200 on a watch, but the only 1 hand watches I have found are between €500 & $1000, way out of my price range. Do you have any suggestions?
The only reason I am considering the UNO, is because I got water in the Kulte while washing my hands.
don't know about that. when it comes to time keeping, accuracy and accurate tech = quality. art is fine, but i prefer the accurate soul of my cheap watch. some old tech does have a near tangible benefit (in areas like cinema, photography and music), but 80,000 dollar watches are primarily for jerking off and nothing else. of course, the preservation of watch history is valuable, like all things history.
Need A Quartz watch to keep Time on all your Automatic's....
Quartz watches and cell phones are part of the reason that automatic watches are so popular.
@@WondersofWatchdom Indeed. People appreciate the craftsmanship. It's not as simple as today's gadgets.
What about the AutoQuartz (Tissot I think) which are a combination of both automatic and quartz ?
Objectively quartz is really better. Far more accurate, much cheaper, far easier and cheaper to maintain, more complications, bigger selection of watches, can be made much more compact, far less damageable by shock, etc.
But man just wants the beauty of things that seem more complicated and harder to make, so mechanical watches continue to live.
I appreciate both although my favorite watch is an automatic. Specifically an Invicta Pro Diver 9094OB. It's mechanical and yet it's relatively cheap to maintain, very reliable, reasonably accurate (±5 sec. per day), and has a shock absorber mechanism, so it has some qualities that make quartz great but at the same time it's mechanical.
Being able to admit the objective benefits of quartz over mechanical movements yet still being devoted to whizzing gears and springs shows just how deeply you do appreciate them.
Can you tell me the beat rate of the thermo compensated quartz movement or it is the same as normal quartz movement? They tend to be +/- 10 seconds/Year!!!!
A quartz watch is a practical purchase, where as a mechanical watch is an emotional purchase.
I don't know about emotional, but definitely a sense of appreciation of the craft rather than practicality.
The reason to buy a mechanical watch was portrayed on Northern Exposure, when ex-astronaut Maurice Minnifield buys a 400+ year old tower clock, and discovers that he also has hired a “technician” to repair it so that it could be accurate to better than 10 minutes per day. His first thought is to replace the movement with a proper quartz movement, at which point the German technician steals it to hide it away from the crass American who wants his clock to tell time, not enjoy the history it represents.
The businessman who spends thousands of dollars on a watch does so to demonstrate that he can, and he is too important to care about the watch’s accuracy, as he has underlings for that.
Cool story! I checked out a RUclips video of the clock you’re talking about. It would be horrendous to see a beautiful old clock replaced with a quartz movement.
One thing I would add is that most people who spend thousands on a watch DO care about the accuracy, but they appreciate the fact that a beautiful, well crafted, purely mechanical watch can be accurate to a few seconds or less a day.
I the days before time zones. Local time was Solar time. so if you went 20 miles the time was off from where you came from. In one of the national treasure movies the hero is trying to find a specific brick that a shadow would fall on at a certian time. He says Opps Ben Franklin use Daylight time not standard time. Big mistake, They used what evertime based on solar time. not a time zone.
I like my Citizen/Seikos solar powered, sapphire glass crystal, titanium or stainless. Deadly accurate and really tough
I appreciate the history behind it, and appreciate seeing the art involved in a fine mechanical movement, but if I had the 10k to spare it would take to buy a really fine mechanical watch… I’d have a new sailboat. I wear an apple “watch” now (really it’s a wrist computer - I’m old enough to remember that my “watch” is more powerful than top of the line laptops were 20 years ago), and it’s too useful to trade it in for any mere time-piece. It’s also been a good subtle way to let the younger generations at work know that the old dog has learned some new tricks.
That is really true ¡
Megir is very accurate¡
Because it's a quartz! It's great technology.
While appreciating the genius of mechanical watches, the functional advantages of quartz movements cannot be dismissed (as so many "watch snobs" tend to do). In the not-too-distant future, it looks like both will be replaced by smart watches, or no watches at all (cell phones). Thanks for an excellent presentation.
Not likely. There's been no good reason to buy automatic watches for at least 30 years now, yet people love them.
@@shadiahmad4848 I do not have the benefit of having industry sales statistics. I do look at wrists. Most of them are bare.
checking the time on your phone just really feels different. just the few extra steps of taking your phone out of your pocket and activating the display makes so much more difference then just looking at your wrist. and also people buy watches mostly not because they tell the time.
I have both Automatic Watches and Quartz watches. My goal now is for watches that service and emp pulse and an end of the world situation. I love the art of a good mechanical movement, the culmination of centuries of development of knowing the correct time. Will a quartz watch be repairable after 100 years as a mechanical watch can? I have russian watches, Japan watches and Swiss watches. I also have some quality quartz movement watches. My brother who is blind has a watch with a flip=up crystal so he can feel where tha hands are to tell the time. I have watched enough watch resurrections to grown to love mechanical movements. Such history, such a development of industry.
This is very informative, mechanical watch is like jewelry they said. But I prefer solar powered in my g-shock
I hope you won't stop at just one watch! lol
The difference is conspicuous consumption.
I joke somewhat, since I deeply appreciate the workmanship that goes into a mechanical movement. I completely understand spending a few hundred dollars more for something you enjoy the aesthetics of. When watches get into the 10K+ range, the wearer has chosen to make a statement. Specifically. that their minor personal accessories are more valuable than an entire year of work from someone making minimum wage. It's gauche at best and at worst is a major red flag.
I remember seeing an interview on TV years ago where a guy said he spent $10K on a watch, and it actually made me angry. What kind of idiot would spend that much on a watch? What a jerk.
These days, I think that spending $10K for a beautiful, hand-crafted, hand-detailed watch seems pretty reasonable. The difference is partly because I understand watches better, but mostly because I have more money now.
one question does a hybrid watch counts as a quartz watch? because im using a Fossil hybrid watch and i'm just wondering about that kind of watch... and i own an automatic too a TAG HEUER carrera calibre 16 CV2050-1
if it has a quartz mechanism/movement it's a quartz watch. (in most cases...battery = quartz)
An Ecodrive doesn't even need the battery changed for 10 yrs.
Funny, Ecodrives have no battery.
@@donedeal725 they have a solar cell which will need replacing and cost me 40 $ to replace.
@@violinmke They claim it's a capacitor
The key to prolonging the life of the capacitor, is to make sure it doesn't sit in a draw and go flat. Periodically wear it, or place it by the window.
@@donedeal725 well, technically, the so-called Capacitor is nothing else, then a recharchable battery ;)
You didn't mention the 'gear' in the mechanical watch that is constantly moving? What is that and what is its function?
I think I did talk about that? Basically there's a train of gears, and each gear moves a hand. If you mean the quartz - same answer.
Didn't Seiko invent to Quatrz movement in the '70's?
What one will last longer ?
Philippe Dufour once said that every quartz watch is destined for the junk pile, eventually. Mechanical watches can be maintained and/or repaired forever. Of course, he said it much more eloquently than that.
@@WondersofWatchdom Its cheaper to buy a new movement than to repair it.
I'll take a quartz watch ove mechanical anyday
So how about spring driver?
Good question. I didn't want to get too complicated in this video. A spring drive is basically an automatic mechanical watch, but instead of a swiss-lever mechanical escapement, it uses a quartz-controlled escapement. So, it's very accurate, and instead of ticking it has that nice smooth-running seconds hand.
I have an Omega Aqua Terra and an Oris Propilot. I'd rather have these in quartz, but they're not made. Anyway, I'd prefer a nice quality quartz, because today I fall less for bandwagon hype. Quartz has so much going for it. But the Swiss purposely don't give them fit and finish.
Can’t say I agree, but if you prefer luxury quartz with beautiful finish you may wish to check out the Grand Seiko SBGX series, or (expensive) FP Journe Elegante. Both beautiful, high quality watches.
So the less accurate watch is for important meetings? You have that backwards don't you think? Expensive, mechanical watches are basically jewelry if you ask me.
Jewelry plus art
@@jijoious Well jewelers are basically artists, so you are right.
A steam engine locomotive is much better in my book than a diesel-electric.
@@MarquisDeSang As a mechanical engineer I can guarantee you it isn't better, but I do have a higher level of appreciation for it.
@@hausmeisterengineering5952 But steam will work in a zombie apocalypse because they can run on anything.
Not all quartz watches are created equal though. I have a whole bunch of watches, and periodically make sure they’re all set to the same time. It doesn’t take long for them to be all wildly different from each other. My Casio W86 keeps better time than my two Casio A100 re-issues for instance.
Mechanical is great for collectors and watch nerds,
And quartz is good for anything else. Accurate, die hard, simple, inexpensive &... Doesn't need service, only the battery.
Seiko kinetic autorelay arctura!!
Nice watch! It's a quartz movement that runs on a battery, but the movement looks (sort of ) like a mechanical movement because it uses an oscillating weight with generator to recharge the battery. Older models held the charge using a capacitor instead of a battery, but Seiko found they're prone to power leakage and damage by static electricity.
At some point in the future I'll be doing a full video on such "hybrid" drives.
I have an Accutron. Most reliable watch of its day until quartz.
Yeah-I remember my Accutron watches. Run just fine until the first drop or blow. Then dead. The watch that hums....'till early death.
@@schizy I have two n2 so that's 1972. Both we're brought back to life after stopping by my very knowledgeable watch guy but on his advice not buying them again.
I have a Casio G-Shock as a daily basher and a couple of nice mechanical watches (My Omega Seamaster is a prize possession) and a nice higher end Quartz.
You are 100% correct when you state the Quartz watches are soulless compared to the beating heart of a mechanical. There is nothing like a sweeping second hand and knowing whats lurking beneath the rear cover.
Whatever watch one likes is fine, but a kinetic watch may be the perfect answer. It's like a combination mechanical and quartz type watch, and keeps accurate time.
Kinetic is still a glorified quartz. I'd rather just buy a solar. The Seiko Springdrive on the other hand...fabulous!
One more thing about automatic watches: they are more reliable in outdoor activities since they don't require batteries.
Solar watches..
Julio Cesar Pereira quartz is more durable though, mechanicals are intrinsically less shock proof
dont think so.. written with a shock resistend, anti magnetic solar powered quartz watch on my wrist
i clicked away after the intro. surely the 10$ quarz wont have quality. but a 200$ quartz is sure as hell flawless. can you say the same about a 200$ automatic?
If you clicked away after the intro, why would you comment since you don’t know what the video says?
No watch for $200 is flawless (no watch for $10,000 is flawless).
But you can get a great Orient mechanical watch for about $200, and a very nice Invicta for less than that.
A $200 quartz is generally a nicer finish than a $200 mechanical because the entire $200 is in the case and bracelet. A Swiss quartz movement costs about $6.
$200 is about as much as I’d pay for a quartz watch.
@@WondersofWatchdom i understand that. but the point is, when you compare a quartz and a mechanical in the same price category, the quartz will always prevail because of the cheap movement. the money you pay goes into features, finish, quality control..
@@WondersofWatchdom lets say, a 200$ quarz is high end, a 200$ mechanical is solid entry level. if you scale that up to say 10,000$, the quartz version will have better bang for buck. in theory, the most expensive quartz will beat the most expensive mechanical. though most people will not buy a mechanical for its utility, but personal value.
Springdrive...
Frankly, "soulless" is the word people throw around when they've lost the argument. Mechanical movements are aesthetically attractive, but as far as function goes, quartz watches kill them in every way. I have a Rolex that stopped working because it needs insanely expensive service and needed to be set all the time anyway. I'm not even sure I'm going to bother to get it serviced and working again. The tech quoted me -- I swear I am not making this up -- at $800 to $1000 MINIMUM plus they tried to tell me that it wasn't an original dial and that they would "have" to replace the dial if they serviced it, putting it up to two freaking grand! AYFKM?! For a watch that functionally gets its ass kicked by the Eco Citizen quartz I'm currently wearing that doesn't even need a battery or any service of any kind?
Rich people get watches like this because if you've got that kind of money, you don't need to be on time anyhow, so your watch is just there to show off.
yeah its a gimmick and a cashgrab. If it was cheap auto movement, thats ok the price is ok, but those expensive mechanical movements are cashgrab, if you make calculations you end up paying something like 10-30euro a month to maintain it.
If you've ever tried to build or customize your own movement (I have), you appreciate that a beautifully made movement is a work of art. With rare exceptions, a quartz watch is usually just a watch. I like quartz too and own several, but purely for their utility.
20 years ago i bought a Rolex Submariner with all the paperwork, a dream come true but it was so expensive that a lot of friends and even strangers told me it was a nice copy and i had to argue al the time and convince them that the watch was real ... so after a while i stopped wearing it and put it in a safe but that's not why i bought the thing so i did the stupidest thing of my life, i sold it with a loss and i still regret it to this day.
It is like automotive industry all over again. You cannot compare Ferrari to Ford Focus. Focus is more practical, economical to run and ensure but when you are out to buy Ferrari, you want to buy Ferrari.
It's more like comparing cars and horses.
So when sill Apple watches be worth nothing ?
As soon as the hardware is too old to update with the latest OS. Usually 7-8 years.
While I agree with everything in this video, I'll add one reason to wear a mechanical/auto watch. Today, everything is connected, bluetoothed and "smart". So called smart watches are getting more and more common, therefore making it impossible to escape social media and communication for even a moment, email, messages and events always making themselves known instantly. Wearing an automatic watch is, for me, a little rebellion against all that "smartness". A chance to be left alone, no facebook, no texts, no emails, no reminders, no stock tickers, just gears and cogs powered by broccoli.
Cheap quartz watches aren't intrusive or network connected
Quartz for life chump's
Whats the russian watch name?
It's a Vostok. I'm actually not sure of the exact model name. I have a book of Russian watches and it's not in it.
To me mechanical watches are artistry. The complexity of some of the more refined and complicated movements are so amazing and beautiful to me! The first time I cracked the back of a mechanical as a kid to see what was underneath I WAS ASTOUNDED...DUMBFOUNDED. It was like gazing into the universe for me and my passion for watches was born in that moment. In contrast....the first time I opened a quartz...eh....my reaction was a little different. If I remember correctly I curled my lip and exclaimed "EWW WTH IS THIS"?
But as I've gotten older I've come to appreciate quartz in its own way. Makers like casio do amazing things with them. But eventhough I appreciate them now...nothing...I mean nothing,will ever compare to a Jaeger-LeCoultre or a Patek Phillippe movement. Great video. Thanks.
Which is more accurate? Your looking for accuracy? Try a Timex or Casio. It's an instrument of time telling. Not a status symbol. Just my non-snob $.02
I wear one which is solar powered and supposedly can last 20 years. Never needs batteries. Had it 10 years so far, never had to reset the time, only the date.
dude it still uses rechargeable battery or sth like that, it last 10-20 years.
@@Cortesevasive very high grade battery cell, they offer lifetime guarantee on it , if the battery ever goes bad they will replace it :)
@@cartouchator Really mate? can you quote it ? I never seen such labels
@@Cortesevasive as it turns out, it would seem citizen changed their warranty to 5 years across their range. Oddly enough though, my citizen eco drive came with a paper leaflet inside that said "lifetime warranty" (I bought mine 10 years ago mind you). Although checking the small print on that paper again, it says that the life expectancy of this watch is 20 years. So... Not lifetime then? But now they're only 5 years warranty.
@@cartouchator my AR1130 has 1y warranty or sth like that, certainly less than 6y. Yeah but those warranties are limited, I mean probably they would only cover if there was something wrong in quality control, but usual wear would be disregarded.
Vanity is expensive.
dudeee that chinese watch looks nice af lmfao im buying one
I actually wore it to work one day and people loved it and thought it looked expensive! lol. It's chrome-plated plastic with a pleather strap, so it won't last long.
My phone is perfect all day every day so quartz is useless to me a mechanical movement is as fascinating today as it was 100 years ago
There are many reasons for the renewed interest in mechanical movements, and that's certainly one of them. People have so much technology in daily life, sometimes it's nice to just have a simple, classic mechanical timepiece.
I get in to automatic. Now, i cant get out
Mechanical watches still have an advantage in high-radiation environments where electronics starts to literally fry. That said, it's the level of radiation that would quickly be dangerous for the wearer -- where you may want to track your time of exposure accurately.
That’s where you don’t bother with a watch at all - if you want the simple solution, you use one of those badges that changes color as it absorbs radiation, and if/when it starts turning dark, you GTFO.
I like automatics and windups cause a battery doesn’t last long on my wrist in a quartz watch.
Solar ?
So, basically the value of mechanical watches is very subjective and artificial. Regardless of how much skill or hours are needed to make one it’s still only as worth as much as the customer is willing to pay for it.
you can have an altimeter on a mechanical watch. One example of this is the Oris,.
real reason 99% of time: to show off their $$$$$$ < ---- that's it
Mechanical watches aren’t necessarily expensive. Reliable ones can be purchased for as little as $50-60.
Well why if it's got gears you'd think it'd be more accurate...so all my watches would be more accurate...I'm a watch collector I love pocket watches though
People ask "why do you love watches so much?" It's because it keeps track of time you spend with family or friends and time is something money can't buy it can't replace time because you've got to make time for your family or friends so you can see them or even talk to them.
Also I love the tic of watches and clocks.
Mechanical watches are what pipes are to smoking
I stopped wearing a watch years ago. I have a clock on my alarm clock, on my dining room wall, on my stove, on my microwave oven, on my home cell phone, on my cable box, and on my computer. I don't need a watch. If I leave my home, I have clock on my other cell phone and in my car.
Fair enough. For me, I’d much rather tell the time on a beautiful or interesting watch than a cell phone or a stove.
I picked up a Rolex a few years back and it loses about 10 seconds in 24 hours. My 100 Canadian Pesos G-shock is Multiband 6 and always on the money. Casio all the way!
I think a mechanical watch is buying mechanical engineering art that has the added benefit of telling time.
where is the art in it mate ?
Summary...
Mechanical watches = heavy, complicated, tedious, inaccurate and overpriced.
Quartz watches = light, simple, functional and accurate.
Final conclusion: I'd rather wear a $20 quartz than a $20,000 mechanical piece of freaking anchor, any day.
Quartz and mechanics is not a fair comparison! It would be fair if you at least gave Rolex a chance
My iPhone is accurate all the time ! Better than quartz
IPhone is for mentally disabled mate
Why would you pit a piece of crap against a Rolex? I just don't get it everyone know quartz is more accurate so what your point?
Angry boyo
Not everybody knows that. Most people don’t even know what they’re buying.
The most precice clock is the Apple Watch... because it sync to an atomic clock server.
well my casio watch does that as well via bluetooth connection to the cellphone or using the broadcast radio time signal
no its not.. because the time, the atomic signal need, to go first: to the apple server, then from the server to the internet provider, from the provider to your phone and from your phone to your watch have a greater delay then a time signal that is picked from an atomic watch directly from the signal.. we talking delays from up to 30 milliseconds xD :P
People that prefer quartz don´t need a real watch, only need to know the hour. That´s why they just take a look a the cellphone. When you understand and appreciate a real watch, you will turn unable to use a quartz toy.
i need real watches, and i prefer quartz over automatics. there is no such thing like real watches or "unreal" watches.. every watch, that tells time is in first place a real watch. and a lot of quartz watches are horological significant, like the casio f91-w, the seiko astron, the whole g-shock series and so on. even luxury watch brands produces quartz watches (Patek Phillipe, Omega, Cartier, Breitling), or have in the past produced quartz watches (a lange und söhne, rolex) - the horological history is allways driven by two ideas: 1. build the most accurate timekeeping device in the world and 2. build the most complex and high end jewelery in the world. the first idea is, what people like Gallileo Galilei or John Harrison have in mind and is perfected with quatzwatches (like the Citizen Cal. 0100) and atomic timekeeping (atomic watches are in parts also quartz watches), the second one with watches like the Zeitwerk vom A. Lange und Söhne or the Pathek Phillip Grandmaster Chime. I apreciate both of this Ideas, because both of them are important and beautifull from a technological, historlical, physical and artistical standpoint. and for me and my needs and taste, a quartz watch is what i need and what i like. so please, dont tell me, i have no understanding of horology, and please stop telling anybody, that "who have an understanding of watches thinks quartz watches are not real watches" - that disqualifice you and tells everybody, that you have no idea or understanding of watches and watchmaking
@@noobfl ... Real watch is a metaphoric use of language, you know. In the same way, classic cars lovers talk about "real cars" as opposite to prosaic, unsubstantial, modern cars. A real watch is a watch with a real machinery. Im not talking about price and luxury, just real machineries. Quartz watches are unsubstantial, meaningless toys.
@@silverghost4206 another kid playing with quartz toys
@@silverghost4206 quartz watches have a so simple machine compared with automatic ones. If you think both types of watches are the same level of complexity, you rre so wrong.
Im not an admirer of rolex in particular. I like automatic watches in general.
hi it's me again… I have Waltham and Elgin pocket watches I even have one with the cylinder movement now that is bizarre that is a key wind…also a Russian pocketwatch nicely made…seeing the engraving their absolutely artwork. Their treasures to look at. …Most of people that purchase let's say a Rolex may never even see inside. And the face of the watches today made by any machinery can be amazing as the tooling of today is so precise.
So now you can have a cheap watch with a nicer looking faceplate than a Rolex for people like this that never see the insides just a point of gloating for how much money they spent… A true owner of this watch who loves it will be somebody in the hobby that can go inside and appreciate it. I have a brother-in-law that buys expensive watches that don't look any better than any other watch but he sure to point out it is expensive so look at me …
knowing nothing of what's inside . I appreciate the mechanics and I actually do open mine. But on an everyday level a quartz is probably better as long as it lasts 20 years… Oh by the way my expedition scout came and I am passionately in love with it. The one I have is flawless for its faceplate the stamping turned out flawless and indigo also flawless without that little gap at the bottom … Even my secondhand lines up so I got lucky. Really I really love it. Oh and thanks for talking with me I got your reply and I even watch this video which I thought was really important what a fantastic video. I wanted to be a watch collector but you know how it works? You always want to upgrade it started to get expensive. My best wristwatch was a 1930s Lord Elgin in mint condition. It was so beautiful inside and even the outside. But now I have my expedition and it is cool. Please be well and thank you so much for everything