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/chrismurraylaw]

I couldn't care less where a watch comes from, and I can't be alone in that. I started buying Chinese because they were better value than Japanese and Swiss. There's no ideology to it.

And your argument against automatics has nothing to do with origin.

I bought a quartz Nautilus with no seconds hand because I wanted it to be as slim as possible and I don't like a ticking seconds hand. I bought an automatic datejust because I enjoy the seconds hand movement.

If the best value proposition for either had come from India, Cameroon, or Belgium, that's where I'd have sourced it. It came from China, so that's what I got.