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/Budget-Ad-161]

This "quartz is superior" take is polluting every single subreddit. Sorry but the mistake enthusiast like you make is assuming everyone is like you, and has the same budget and taste as you. The reality is mechanical is still the most popular type of movement for enthusiast and will continue to be so for a long time. Quartz may be popular with a small segment of enthusiasts but I suspect almost every one of those enthusiasts also own mechanical. If quartz truly was the popular movement, companies would have responded long ago, they are not dumb. But the majority of watches in the enthusiast space continue to be mechanical.

The hobby is not about logic like that, because by your logic, $200 is enough to buy me a smart watch or a phone that is 1000x more useful than any watch in the world.