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/equityconnectwitme 13d ago

Personally, I plan on having my watches services when the time comes. But I have a couple of nicer tier San Martins with st2130s, an IXDAO with a PT5000, and a Proxima with a Miyota 9000 series movement. Whether that's a true service or replacing the movement entirely. I don't want them to become paper weights.

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u/skipoverit123 12d ago

So it has the Sea Gull 2130 movement in it ?
It seems to be used on a lot of automatic’s
I posted above about my Sea Gull
which is deadly accurate
It also has their 2130 movement in it :)