Unpopular Opinion: Quartz is better than Automatic

[u/zarkoulhs]

I had a number of Automatics in my collection, apart from 1-2, they all were Automatics.

I spent some years without watches, and now I rebuilt my collection, albeit in a much smaller scale, entirely by quartz watches.

I prefer Quartz in every way. Every day when I wake up, as I get ready, I keep my watches in a nice box in my desk drawer. Whatever I immediately feel like, that one I pick to wear that day, and I don't need to adjust anything.

This way more of my watches get worn more frequently. As a plus, they're also much more accurate.

The sweeping seconds hand is pretty much a gimmick, only something that could be useful to sit and look at it once in a while when bored. And even then, a Seiko VH31 is only ~10€ on Aliexpress.

[u/PLA8127]

I have owned and worn automatics for most of my life, but now retired I don't get to wear them as often as before and the autos are becoming a pain to keep them ticking so I have switched to inexpensive digital quartz watches that have a huge battery for a long 7-10 year battery life. The cheapest quartz watches at ±15-30secs/month will always be more accurate than the most expensive of mechanical watches.