chippyfly
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How long?
Feb 21, 2020,04:01 AM
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 older mechanical wrist watches Worldwide being looked after and loved. Winding a mechanical watch is free and part of life and I have been doing that since age 7.
How many quartz watches will there be working in 90 years time? The mechanical parts probably but what of the chip and related electronics? It is still too early to judge. However, replacing a battery every three years or so and maybe a service at the same time is a financial bugbear. My wife's veteran quartz B & M Riviera is expensive to run where a battery change involves a return to the AD with a service every three years and a minimum of a month's delay with packing and postage added cost and inconvenience.
I have three quartz watches. One I never wear. A Casio that is my beach and swimming watch and an attractive 1970's/1980's Cartier Tank that is quite small (23mm x 30mm) and rarely worn, accept at home. Battery changes for the Casio and the Cartier I do myself without difficulty. There is no dispute about the accuracy and convenience of the quartz watches but I find them cold and with little life.
Clive
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Quartz vs mechanicall
By: Bruno.M1 : February 20th, 2020-08:31
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.
By: TheMadDruid : February 20th, 2020-09:28
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!
By: Boron : February 20th, 2020-10:14
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.
And another . . .
By: chippyfly : February 20th, 2020-10:06
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
By: Weems@8 : February 20th, 2020-10:43
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 think you're over analyzing this quartz thing.
By: cmmnsens : February 20th, 2020-13:00
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...
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By: Watchonthewrists : February 20th, 2020-13:24
My thoughts too
I think the community is becoming "woke" on quartz now
By: JTCL : February 20th, 2020-17:14
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?
By: chippyfly : February 21st, 2020-04:01
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...
