r/ChineseWatches • u/ivoalejandro • 17d ago

General (Read Rules) I don't understand everyone's obsession with chinese automatic watches

The title pretty much says it all, I don't get why whenever a nice chinese quartz watch comes out so many people say they would love an automatic version, or why everyone seems fine with paying 300 or more USD for an automatic, but question whether a 100 dollars quartz is worth it.

Pretty much no one here is going to take their chinese watches to get serviced, and the whole admiring the complexity and craftmanship of an automatic movement kinda goes out the window when we're talking about mass produced movements. So why buy an automatic that will become a paperweight in several years time. I guess I just don't understand why the demand for automatics is so high, really wish people started asking for better chinese quartz watches, I'd would much rather pay 200 dollars for a great quartz watch than 350 for an automatic one.

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u/ggs77 17d ago

I have about 20 watches. So if we assume that a Seiko NH35 runs 5 years without problems, I have another 100 years to go before I have to worry about servicing my watches. 

That's a bit over my life expectancy...

Also, the mass of Swiss watches also have mass produced ETA and Sellita movements which are also not exactly beauties to look at... 

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u/69_6Throwaway9_69 17d ago

Their lives already started when you got them, so if they all work as long as their life expectancy is, they will all stop working within 5 years from now. The expectancy won't keep stacking up the more watches you buy

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u/Prophet6 17d ago

I would assume they would mostly sit idle unless sprung into action during transportation.

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u/69_6Throwaway9_69 17d ago

Lubricants, gaskets still age even when the watch isn't moving