A month’s salary on your wrist (Article)

[Chester01]

Originally Posted by |404|

Then you've not looked very far, or very hard. (purposefully, I would suggest too)

Quartz watches are superior to mechanical, it is just a fact. Objevtivley in every comparison they are superior. It is well established and universally accepted even by the most ardent WIS.

Here's a fantastic video by WF:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhvKFjp_68

Subjectively, which is what you are doing (we're all guilty of it btw) is over valuing your mechanical watch.

There's a reason the quartz crisis happened.

Don't get me wrong, I don't own a quartz watch (anymore). And that's not because of some bitter hatred of them. I just don't. I, like you, love a mechanical watch, I like the artisan craft of the hand made elements of my Pateks. I love hearing the moving parts, the winding action.

But these are not things that make a watch better, they are actually the parts that make a watch worse in reality. More moving parts = more to go wrong etc etc. Not as accurate, shocks/damage the list goes on.

Your claim about not finding a quartz watch that could time your work is anecdotal at best... the Brietling Aerospace Evo 43mm or previous versions feature a super quartz... thermally compensated. I previously owned one and it held time at a rate of 7 seconds a year... whilst featuring an annual calendar. A minute repeater, an alarm, chronograph, 2nd timezone function.

Listen, I don’t disagree with you, I’m not debating the fine points of accuracy, but find it somewhat amusing that 99% of folks here who would not dare to actually wear their Rolex even mowing the lawn and then opining that oh yeah.... gshock is far better not even close. Actually it is close, Unlike others here that wear their watch as jewelry, I have worn my sub in the same scenarios that I use my gshock for and other than scratches guess what... both running fine and no functional difference. My sub lasted 17 years in ever circumstance with no service.

I bought my wife a concord quartz back in 2002 when we were just dating. You know how many times the actual quartz movement had to be replaced...3 times. Yes the entire movement failed three times in that span. So, you can see why I am a little skeptical with the quartz always better argument. I don’t view 3 movement failures as superior, sorry. Unfortunately, my wife’s argument is she needs my Daytona now because it will hold up better!

I would venture to guess that the activities that folks on this forum wear their gshock for their Rolex would hold up just fine (though may have scratches) that’s my only point.


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