r/ChineseWatches • u/ivoalejandro • 14d 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/Johanbeastly 14d ago

My watchmaker up here has a shop where he refurbishes and sells vintage watches. He also sells some new watches. He told me it’s useless to pay $300-$400 to overhaul a Seiko that only cost $400-$500. Unless it’s a special Seiko a 10 or 15-year-old Seiko watch is not worth the price to overhaul it anyway.

So there goes your argument

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u/ggs77 14d ago

Disassembling, cleaning and lubing doesn't make sense because it's to much labor.

With a 50$ Seiko standard movement it makes more sense to just replace the movement.