Quartz Watches

riverrun said:
My battery powered quartz watch (Tissot) does have a low battery indicator. When the battery is low the second hand only moves every four seconds. Like ↪this. Works really well.
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Both my Omega quartz watches have the same feature. I'm not sure how much battery life is left after this 4 second feature kicks in, but it's certainly long enough to get a new battery fitted or grab a different watch until you can get it seen to.
 
I used to obsess about accuracy to the second, but to be honest there's nothing I do where my watch being out by a minute would cause a problem, especially as I'd gotten used to checking the time on my phone or computer where the seconds aren't displayed anyway.

I prefer automatics, I like the smooth sweep of the second hand and have gotten used to the idea that the second hand is just there to tell me it's running.
 
thackeray said:
because a watch is an instrument to display time, a cheap Casio will display time just as effectively as a expensive handmade swiss watch. Where as a razor is a tool, cheap tools rarely deliver the quality finish of more expensive tools.
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I'm not convinced by either side of your argument.
Apart from just showing the time (my phone does that quite well), a watch is something I wear. Just as I wouldn't walk around in a clown's outfit, I wouldn't want to be embarrassed by wearing most Casio watches I just looked at on Amazon. Then again, I didn't pay a fortune for the watches I do own.
On the other hand my favourite razors were all quite cheap good value for money. My Merkur 45 cost under 20 quid, so did my Schick N3 and my 1912 was under a tenner. All of them give me shave just as good or better than the latest stainless steel fashion statements. If I wanted a good shave from a pivoted razor I wouldn't go for a OneBlade, I'd pick a Gillette Fusion Flexball.
I'm not sure what my point is exactly, maybe someone can figure it out... :p
 
A person's watch selection probably says more about their personality than we give credit for. Ages ago I bought a day/date analog watch and it "ruined" me in a sense. I refuse to buy a watch w/o that feature as admittedly sometimes I forget what day it is. o_O I'm old enough that I remember once owning a Timex electric watch. Yes, electric. I wish I had kept it. It was a good watch.
 
Greetings
I am not a' watch lover' for want of a better way of describing a person for whom a watch means more than merely a timepiece.

Since I was a young servicemen in the late 60s I have always owned a Seiko wristwatch with a stainless steel strap, in those 50 years I have owned no more than eight or nine watches in total. My early ones were automatics later on battery quartz then kinetic and now a solar model; this one http://www.watchshop.com/mens-seiko-solar-powered-watch-sne095p1-p99938157.html When I purchased this watch I was concerned that in the winter months whilst wearing long sleeves I might end up having to put the watch on a south windowsill on occasion. This has proved not to be the case and I have never been happier with any watch.
I take the watch off perhaps once a month or when I remember (which ever comes first) and scrub it with a nail brush and a squirt of fairy liquid, I wear it to swim and to shower, I can see the time with it at night and it keeps wonderful time I would expect to get perhaps six or seven years use from it if my others are anything to go by, for me a none 'watch person' that seems like a really good deal.

I inherited my long deceased grandfathers gold watch presented to him for 50 years service at Boulton and Pauls in Norwich, I paid a lot of money to get it regulated and it keeps shit time but I suspect it is a shit watch simply made of gold!

Regards
Dick.
 
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riverrun said:
I'm not convinced by either side of your argument.
Apart from just showing the time (my phone does that quite well), a watch is something I wear. Just as I wouldn't walk around in a clown's outfit, I wouldn't want to be embarrassed by wearing most Casio watches I just looked at on Amazon. Then again, I didn't pay a fortune for the watches I do own.
On the other hand my favourite razors were all quite cheap good value for money. My Merkur 45 cost under 20 quid, so did my Schick N3 and my 1912 was under a tenner. All of them give me shave just as good or better than the latest stainless steel fashion statements. If I wanted a good shave from a pivoted razor I wouldn't go for a OneBlade, I'd pick a Gillette Fusion Flexball.
I'm not sure what my point is exactly, maybe someone can figure it out... :p
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after that load of bollocks maybe you should walk around in a clowns outfit!!
 
riverrun said:
...a watch is something I wear. Just as I wouldn't walk around in a clown's outfit, I wouldn't want to be embarrassed by wearing most Casio watches I just looked at on Amazon. Then again, I didn't pay a fortune for the watches I do own...
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I understand your point & in a way the modern DE razor industry is like that of the watch industry. For example, surely you have seen the threads on the newest & "greatest" DE or SE razor made from stainless whereas many go ape shit over them. Will these shave any better than an old vintage one? Probably not. The same for watches in that many seem to want gadgets, doo hickeys, gizmos, etc., as if they are all bush pilots in the Himalayas facing death daily. :rolleyes:

However, in all fairness many customers in today's world are more interested in the "sizzle" rather than the steak. ;)
 
I wear cheap rubber bracelets on some days and on others i wear more expensive leather ones, same applies to my watches, one day my Unknown brand Quartz eBay refurb, next day my Glycine automatic.

These days with digital readout on every other appliance, finding the time isn't difficult, as I sit here in my dining room I can see the time in 5 different ways, not counting my watch in the basket with my keys, a watch is just jewellery these days.
 
Quartz watches have a time and place, would I wear one on an evening out? No... Personally I dont wear one even "day to day" but if doing physical work or going abroad and dont want to get mugged an inexpensive quartz is just the ticket.

I'm yet to experience a mechanical go bad so obviously that will colour my opinion, it would appear many dyed in the wool quartzists are so for good reason having suffered unreliable mechanicals.

FYI, my favourite quartz watch is the Braun AW20... Because I want to look cool even whilst gardening :p
 
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