Premium digital
By their nature quartz watches enjoys an overwhelming advantage over mechanical watches: They work.
I know that it's tempting to look at the excellent vintage examples that @Aurelian, @YourIntruder, and @Whitesalmon post regularly and think that all mechanical watches can looks as good or last as long, but this is a demonstration of survivor's bias. Most mechanical watches that I grew with were disposable junk, and therefore I jumped on the first occasion that I had to get a quartz watch, because they worked, and what I had on my wrist at that time didn't.
I have now plenty of mechanical watches and I hope that with good care and with their better manufacturing they will last for my lifetime. I also have plenty of quartz watches because they are convenient and because they work.
What I didn't have was a premium digital watch. Grand Seiko, and to some extent Citizen, made a business model out of selling premium analog quartz watches, but good luck finding a premium digital. This is a genre that went by the way of the Dodo in the late 90's, and I missed having one in my collection until I got the idea to make myself a premium digital with some help from SKXMOD and Vario.
It turn out that you don't need to be a wizard with your hands or have particularly deep pockets because making myself a premium digital was neither difficult nor expensive. The SKXMOD kit isn't a giveaway (and neither does it feels like one) but it's affordable, and the same can be said about the excellent strap from Vario. The end result is a watch that can stands on its own when confronted by premium digitals from the 90's, like those offered by Omega and other top tier brands from this era.
It's also a watch that is very easy on the wrist, or at least on my wrist, and pleasing to look at. I know, beauty is in the eye of blablabla, and other people might not like the look, but I'm not these other people and therefore I don't care about their opinion.
What I do care is that I have my premium digital watch at last.
I'm a big fan of watches that are interesting because they are either unique, have interesting features, well designed or simply offer a great value for their price.
Darn it @Catskinner, now your gonna make me go and look at the available options....🤏🏻😅💸
Darn it @Catskinner, now your gonna make me go and look at the available options....🤏🏻😅💸
Pleeeease...it's not like I'm forcing you to do anything you didn't want to do in the first place.😉
Pleeeease...it's not like I'm forcing you to do anything you didn't want to do in the first place.😉
It would be more apropros to say, you aren't helping 😂.
It would be more apropros to say, you aren't helping 😂.
But I'm am! I'm helping you to spend your money in a responsible way.
But I'm am! I'm helping you to spend your money in a responsible way.
Exactly.
It's a pity that so few people are aware of the wonderful satire that Verhoeven created in this film.
Your path has come full circle, mate N the realisations shall last There's so much precious hindsight From experiences in the past As much as I love mechanical watches
It's the digital ones that lasts In fact, the Casio AE1200 is my choice too A Chronometer of the digital class
Well said indeed mate. 😊 👍
I just added to the post the necessary links to help you be a responsible spender. Don't ever say that I never did anything for you.
I just added to the post the necessary links to help you be a responsible spender. Don't ever say that I never did anything for you.
Thx. 🫣🍻.
We are roughly the same age, and so we have seen the introduction of the digital quartz watch as well as their increased popularity. And I have never owned one, not when I was ten or fifteen, never. I even have a family tie to their development through my grandfather who was an engineer for Bell Laboratories. When he retired he held nearly 400 patents, many involving digital display and synthesized voice programs. He built digital display clocks for fun around 1970, when that sort of clock usually flipped over placards.
Any quartz digital watch performs its core function, telling accurate time, better than anything that I own. Telling time must be secondary to my requirements for a watch. Collecting allows for many different approaches and outcomes. I am at the extreme that values authenticity over personalization. To see the other end of the spectrum I must experience it vicariously through posts such as this.
Now, more coffee...
We are roughly the same age, and so we have seen the introduction of the digital quartz watch as well as their increased popularity. And I have never owned one, not when I was ten or fifteen, never. I even have a family tie to their development through my grandfather who was an engineer for Bell Laboratories. When he retired he held nearly 400 patents, many involving digital display and synthesized voice programs. He built digital display clocks for fun around 1970, when that sort of clock usually flipped over placards.
Any quartz digital watch performs its core function, telling accurate time, better than anything that I own. Telling time must be secondary to my requirements for a watch. Collecting allows for many different approaches and outcomes. I am at the extreme that values authenticity over personalization. To see the other end of the spectrum I must experience it vicariously through posts such as this.
Now, more coffee...
TBH telling the time is secondary to my interests too. I'm surrounded with gizmos and gadgets that tells me the time, even when I would rather ignore it.
I wear a watch because I'm the product of a generation for whom not wearing a watch is inconceivable and I collect them because...well I don't really need to justify myself to anyone anymore, but lets assume that I simply like having them around.
Which brings me back to digital watches because they hold a special place in my memories. The first one that I saw was a LED watch made by Philips and the idea that time could be display by a series of rapidly changing digital segments was mind blowing for 11 years old me.
We are roughly the same age, and so we have seen the introduction of the digital quartz watch as well as their increased popularity. And I have never owned one, not when I was ten or fifteen, never. I even have a family tie to their development through my grandfather who was an engineer for Bell Laboratories. When he retired he held nearly 400 patents, many involving digital display and synthesized voice programs. He built digital display clocks for fun around 1970, when that sort of clock usually flipped over placards.
Any quartz digital watch performs its core function, telling accurate time, better than anything that I own. Telling time must be secondary to my requirements for a watch. Collecting allows for many different approaches and outcomes. I am at the extreme that values authenticity over personalization. To see the other end of the spectrum I must experience it vicariously through posts such as this.
Now, more coffee...
N... More watches... No? 😁