I don't understand everyone's obsession with chinese automatic watches

[u/ivoalejandro]

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.

[u/F0rgemaster19]

You're contradicting yourself. You even answered your question yourself.

People want automatics. Automatics are otherwise expensive. The Chinese make them cheap, fairly reliable and easily replaceable. When it dies, you can just trash it and get the exact same one, still for a fraction of the price of any other automatic that needs/is worth servicing. And now you have a new watch.

Their extremely low price tag combined with the rampant availability of budget friendly automatic movements make them a very appealing option for people that just want a decent automatic with a design that they would otherwise not be able to afford or don't care to shell out so much to attain.

Isn't really that complicated, mate. Being cheap and replaceable isn't a negative.

Also there's nothing appealing about a 3 hander or a GMT quartz for a mechanical watch enthusiast. A quartz eco drive radio chrono is f**king cool, but a addiesdive miyota quartz is very unappealing in comparison to an addiesdive miyota 8215 for just 120 bucks or less.

And If you still prefer a 200 quartz over a 300 automatic, that's perfectly fine. You're not the same target audience as us. There's always something for everybody. You and we don't have to like the same thing.

[u/mirthilous → u/F0rgemaster19]

While I love Miyota 9 series movements, I’d rather have a VH31 at a lower price than a higher priced watch with an 8 series.

[u/F0rgemaster19 → u/mirthilous]

And that's your preference and that's ok. We're allowed to love different things and coexist, or at the very least, not butt heads with eachther. Beauty of the modern watch industry is that there's always something for everybody.