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Nothing wrong with a quartz
My first “expensive” watch was a Junghans Mega 1, bought in 1991. The Mega 1 was the first radio controlled wristwatch in the world, it only receives signals from Germany, but will work in most parts of Europe. The accuracy is +/- 1 second in a million years! Outside the transmitters range it works like a regular quartz watch.
Today, most radio controlled watches are multi band, and can be used in Europe, northern America and Japan.
I bought the Longines DolceVita Chronograph because I liked the design, especially the dial and the blued hands. The movement is a Longines L538 (ETA 251.471), a high end gold plated quartz movement with 23 jewels. The accuracy is about + 3 seconds a year! The movement doesn’t have the soul of a mechanical movement, but I like to wear the Longines. A watch is more than the movement.
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Livius
This message has been edited by deBalzac on 2010-08-26 13:59:45
Quartz Question
On the few occasions when quartz watches are mention here Casio G-Shocks often predominate. For those of us who don’t have them, what is so good about this watch and are there any other quartz watches that purists use? Does anyone keep a quartz watch for ...
Seiko...
and the occassional call to WWV (since it's a local call here in Colorado), or check the time at www.nist.gov or www.time.gov . I would imagine a radio-controlled quartz watch (like Oceanus from Citizen) would also do the trick. On the other hand (or wris...
No quartz wrist watch in use
Hi Andrew, an interesting (some may say politically incorrect in this forum ) question you ask. Well, I do have two radio controlled, battery-driven quartz watches as reference watches at home. At work I check exact time via the atomic watch on the intern...
Politically incorrect, but ...
... I am happy to play to the strengths of all technologies, and for quartz watches/clocks it is their accuracy. We have to set our mechanicals in some way and I was interested to hear what PuristS use. Being a recent convert to all things Mac, the Apple ...
Politically incorrect? hmmm
I like watches because for whatever reason (and it differs with the watch), they make me happy. In the case of quartz watches, I have a few, both digital and analogue. I have a G-shock that I wear when dirtbiking, camping and sometimes diving. Why? Not be...
Nicely put, JMan!
This reminded my of my former German teacher who used to say: "Nobody is completely useless - at least he/she may serve as a bad example!" , anaesdoc
Shooting, Scuba, and dog walking on the beach
The only quartz watch I've owned in many years. I actually like it, especially the central chrono. minute counter.. Park...
enough room in the PuristS universe for both, why limit yourself..
I have some RC watches I use to check the high accuracy quartz and other watches. As for G shocks, they make durable beaters and have useful functions.
Oh yes
During the summer-time I often use my Certina DS Furious , especially on vacations. It's informal, cool, relatively inexpensive, yet very comfortable and of good quality. And the good thing is: You don't have to worry about setting or winding the watch. I...
Of course...
I love my Longines Dolce Vita, be it quartz or not. And a couple of Swatches get worn at times. But somehow they don't catch me in the brain as a mechanical watch does. Maybe it is my training as an electrical engineer. I just keep thinking making a quart...
Interesting, Don.
I like that point of view. Non-mechanicals don't catch my brain in the same way either. I'm not sure I 100% agree with it, though. Please don't take the following as anything other than points of discussion. Is a watch just the escapement? Is a quartz mov...
Yes, room for all in the Purists Watch Universe.
I have about a dozen quartz watches, and they are good for more than just setting the mechanical watches. They can be used to set the tuning fork watches, and the electro-mechanical watches. After all, I have to have something to set the clocks by!...
Quartz got me started
In this nutty obsession. That's what my therapist calls it.....
Additional Question: radio-controlled clocks and signals
Several posters have mentioned automatic synchronization with a transmitted signal, but I wonder how many of us are within range of transmitters and have access to that service. Is it available across all of the USofA? I don't believe there is such a syst...
Nothing wrong with a quartz
My first “expensive” watch was a Junghans Mega 1, bought in 1991. The Mega 1 was the first radio controlled wristwatch in the world, it only receives signals from Germany, but will work in most parts of Europe. The accuracy is +/- 1 second in ...
Sure...I have two blaspheme pieces...
x-33 1st Generation: Awesome watch Casio Pathfinder: Solar powered/Radio Controlled N.America, Europe, Japan Cheers, -- RWK....
What's so good about the G-Shock. . .
Hi Andrew, coming in a little late on this --well the thing I personally love about the G-Shock is that IMVHO (hahahaha, my wife says she never distrusts me so much as when I'm expressing a "humble" opinion) the most basic form of integrity a watch can ex...
That's a great story, Jack ....
Now the G-Shock has both integrity and history, a very compelling combination! Thanks for chipping in. Andrew