What will you pay for a Meca-Quartz movement?

Around 30 bucks for the movement.

The rest depends on the watch around it.

400 wouldn't be unreasonable for a sapphire crystal, well made steel bracelet, well designed dial, well finished case and great long lasting lume.

The movement is only 1 component and there are values at many price points that use this movement type.

Have you replaced a meca-quartz movement? What all does this include?

Nope.

I buy my watches already made.

There are plenty of expensive three hand quartz watches above that top figure. Movement is only one consideration

I got mine for fifty quid second hand (ba dum yah) but I believe it’s usually 100-180 for the model I have.

One of my Pagani Design uses a Seiko mecha-quartz. It’s a Moonwatch homage, and it only cost me about a hundred bucks. It does everything I want at that price. I’d be fine with paying more if a difference could be shown to be of value.

That's actually a fun exercise that I was thinking about doing. Unlike a quartz chrono, you cannot adjust the zero of the chrono-seconds or the chrono-minutes. You would have to run the chrono, reset it, and and then install the chrono hands aligning them just right. And the regular watch hands need to be set on top of that.

(You also have to connect the battery + with the AC terminal in the rear to reset. Other than that the movement can be changed like any other movement.

I haven't done it myself yet, but I'm sure there is somebody around here who did.

First I've heard of it. Perhaps I'm a rube for being ignorant of this.

I bought my Dan Henry 1964 for ~$250. Vintage looking chronographs with mecaquartz. Get lots of compliments on the watch.

A VK63 3 register chrono with date meca-quartz movement sells for less than 30US$ on ebay. You can find this VK63 in a variety of watches from 100 to 400 US$.

There are a few problem with a meca-quartz. First, as @hbein2022 mentioned, being a mechanical module it's impossible to reset to zero the chrono hand if and when it will drift away.

The second issue is the 60 minutes limit of the mechanical chrono module. This is one of the reasons why Seiko insist on adding a useless 24hr complication to round its look because it can't have a 12 or 24 hour chrono counter and the module is too cheap to get a split second counter.

The third issue is that it's main advantage, meaning the relatively smooth 5 ticks/second of the chrono hand, already existed in quartz movements without the need of mechanical wizardry, my 7T62 powered Seiko SNA411 (the Flightmaster) has a similar 5 ticks/second smooth chrono hand with the benefit of not being saddled with the useless as f*ck 24Hr slaved hand.

If only they could turn that 24hr dial into a GMT function, it would be worth it.

That's exactly what the old quartz 7T62 movement has, so in principle it's not supposed to be too expensive or complex to add to a meca-quartz, why Seiko decided it was not worth it is probably due to their unhealthy fetish with the useless slaved 24Hr indicator to the point where on the VK64 it takes the place of the small seconds hand.

I find that mildly infuriating. They would sell so many more copies with the GMT.

Under £50. In the case of my Pagani Design PD-1644, it was only £42. If you pay much more than that, you're being ripped off for a slightly different case shape and possibly more lume on the dial and hands, so I voted for the $100 option.

Under $1k I’d probably stick with quartz (or meca-quartz) for a Chrono. Servicing would cost probably half of the price of the watch and probably not be the most reliable.