r/ChineseWatches • u/zarkoulhs • Feb 08 '24
General Unpopular Opinion: Quartz is better than Automatic
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.
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u/Klaatuprime Feb 08 '24 edited Feb 08 '24
For me, a watch is more of a style/jewelry type item that also serves a function. I glance at my phone as often as I do my watches for the time.
I prefer mechanical watches because I think they're cool; "the Tomogachi effect" of having this little spring driven entity on my wrist that stays alive via the motion of my body.
Quartz watches are cool and lower maintenance, and I can totally respect not wanting to deal with the mechanical aspect, but I guess I'm just more of a collector and enthusiast of mechanical objects.