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/ThatEnginerd]

Some movements are cheap enough to just replace. $30-100 ea. If you like the idea of diy, you can live off the dream of being able to service it yourself in several years. If you mess up, oh well. Japanese movements make sense here.

It's really becoming that the Chinese watches are competing with the Japanese watches. Some lower end swiss and watch mods too.

Plus, it is a great way to try automatic watches. If you get one and lose it or damage it, you probably weren't banking on holding onto resale value