Watch snobbery = no quartz?

I fell into this trap for a bit and looked away from quartz. Took a bit but I'm able to now appreciate quartz watches as a unique form of time keeping. Just like mechanicals you can have cheap or expensive ones and blah styles or really neat designs. Now I try and base my appreciation on what a designer was able to do with the movement and not as much on if the movement is mechanical or not.

Sounds a little snobby to me 😬 but to each their own 🤝once you find one you like,. quartz is always there for your daily “grab and go” to keep very accurate time — for the most part

I don’t mind quartz at all.

I used to look down on quartz many years ago when I was fresh, but now I see their value.

Probably my most worn watch is an Aqua Terra quartz.

Also I wouldn't be able to afford to own a Moonwatch, service alone would be way beyond my budget (for reference my simple 3 hander SM300 coax cost £490 & 3 months to service)

I don’t think it’s snobbery to say you don’t like something. If you were to say it’s inferior and no true enthusiast should have it, that would be snobbery.

If you like watches,you like watches and are an enthusiast.

If you only like a certain type of watch you are a collector.

If you fall into both camps you are screwed.

I am the opposite, quartz all the way, especially the solar ones. Just buy what you like.

Perfectly fine not to like quartz. I have three of them, but can fully understand building a collection around ‘mechanical only’. Everyone has his likes and dislikes. In my collection you won’t see bracelets for instance 🙃

Quartz-on-a-strap however…

I accept there are different varieties for different people enjoy that others find joy in things, even if I do not personally find joy in the same thing.

Mr Jones!! Love that dial! The shop near Covent Garden is fab!

Quartz is awesome. But I didn’t realize it until after I sold a GS 9F. Then I bought another one 😆

I think mechanical and quartz have different appeals, so it's only natural that some people would be particularly susceptible to one's set of appeals and not so much the other's.

I think, as a generalization, mechanicals are a bit more emotional and quartz are a bit more practical. Most days, I'm wearing a mechanical because I am fine giving up the practicality edge for the fascination/sentimentality edge, but other days, like Saturday when I spent a few hours climbing in trees with a reciprocating saw to trim hard to access branches, I will gladly go for the practicality edge that one of my g shocks offers.

That's not to say that there is zero practicality for mechanical watches or zero fascination/sentimentality to quartz watches. I just think, for most people, mechanicals and quartz and even smart watches have differing strengths in those regards. I will wear my mechanical watches while doing some strenuous jobs because they can handle a fair bit of abuse, and I enjoy that they're practical enough to allow me to enjoy their emotional elements despite my current task. I will also wear a quartz/g shock at home being a couch potato sometimes when I haven't had a good reason to wear them in a while because I am also fascinated and sentimental about them.

It's not an all or nothing game. In many ways, they're more alike than they are different, and it just comes down to personal taste, interests, and use cases. I think the only wrong way to approach it is to try to tell someone that their own preferences are wrong.

I agree with the connection aspect to to mechanical. I do love my G-Shocks though. However, I do not regard them as quartz. They are but as they are tough solar models I don’t consider them quartz! I think I just dislike ticking hands on quartz.

I can definitely understand that. I have one analog g shock with a second hand that ticks, but the mudmaster can realign its hands. The propensity of a quartz analog, at least ones with a center seconds, to begin with or develop alignment issues is a major concession for me to make. It keeps me from a lot of budget quartz options. Fingers crossed my steel marathon navigator arrives with a decent alignment, but that watch is tool through and through, which makes it a bit easier to swallow cosmetic flaws.

I still wear quartz. I don't like them near as much and so only wear them less than 5% of the time.

I have quartz watches but right now I'm fascinated with automatic watches so those are the ones I tend to wear most. If you're looking for anything beyond a three-hand or gmt such as a chronograph style, quartz is pretty much the affordable alternative.

Don't underestimate the usefulness and reliabalility of quartz. I wear my Aquaracer every day for swimming, cycling etc in the Malaysian heat and it keeps exceptionally good time. And then swap to my autos for work and evening leisure.

If I were to buy an Omega I would seriously consider following Inkitatus's example and getting quartz. Or if I wanted another GS, their 9F quartz movements are the business.

Another important question is: how much does accuracy matter to you? Because if it does, you'll have to spend a lot to get an auto that runs anywhere near quartz.

All things to consider....

I grew up with quartz nothing wrong having a quartz. I have other variations but quartz for sure be on the top 3! I know there are quartz haters just let them be.