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Always thought it a pity about the plastic inside a Cartier tank! Sorry about the dark photo from my archive.
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Clive
Quartz vs mechanicall
Firs tI want to make clear I never wanted or considered a quartz That was for watches under 500 euro, right ? But was I wrong ? I always convinced myself that a mechanical watch can be expensive or even must be expensive because of the movement 10K - 20K ...
Interesting point.
I don’t think the cost is necessarily the issue for many collectors. It’s the history and tradition of mechanical movements that draw them away from quartz. As well-the skill involved in making a hand winder or automatic. And because Seiko and Journe exhi...
A Spring Drive is not a quartz movement!
To suggest it is, as some sort of fancier 9F, does Seiko a massive disservice and denigrates the 21 years spent getting it from concept to production.
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Always thought it a pity about the plastic inside a Cartier tank! Sorry about the dark photo from my archive. Best Clive ...
My opinion about mechanical and quartz
More. It is more. What i think about mechanical is this: It’s alive, It have a Heart, It is craftsmanship, It is culture (this is the Swiss heartland), It is emotion, It is give passionate people a job they love, It is status, It is all. For me, when a wa...
I know something about quartz, mostly high accuracy. I will be unlikely ...
To pay $$$ for a pretty looking watch with ordinary accuracy.
I think you're over analyzing this quartz thing.
It's clear you really like the Elegante hence you keep asking for external validation. My question to you is how does the watch make you feel? Does it put a smile on your face? Does it give you a little "tingle" down there? 🤪 (I kid, I kid). But seriously...
As you said, I think a lot of the price acceptability comes down to what you're paying for the watch vs. what it cost to make and what you're getting
There's nothing inherently wrong with quartz, and it's superior to mechanical by almost every practical metric. But usually when watches starting going over $20K, you're getting things like precious metals, finishing, and/or complication, so it's more abo...
I think the community is becoming "woke" on quartz now
When the Japanese came, saw and conquered the quartz game, the swiss industry decided that quartz is no good. Now that the market is warming to quartz again, this stigma is being slowly unravelled. My point is, quartz has never been a bad thing, it just g...
How long?
My oldest wrist-watch is 90 years old. It is a vintage Rolex and recently serviced. I wind it up and it tells the time. Its time-keeping is not that great compared to modern watches but it looks well on my wrist. There are hundreds of thousands of even ol...
