Automatic vs Quartz

Both, plus hand winds😃

Quartz only for me.👍

Both equally.

I like watches.

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I own 5 quartz and 11 mechanical watches and I choose mechanical 95% of the time.

Automatic only. You have a pnoe that is basically a computer. Art, History, and mechanics on the wrist! 🤓

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In a large-ish collection with watches worn on rotation quartz and kinetics are a bit of a pain.

Kinetics because they power down and take a lot of effort to recharge.

Quartz watches get comparatively little actually wrist time between battery changes (obviously 10 year batteries are okay but the 2 to 3 year batteries less so). Accordingly I only have one kinetic watch and try to limit the number of battery quartz watches.

Solar quartz watches are great but again I try to limit those to the number of watches I can easily display in the light (not actually that many).

That leaves the automatics and manuals. Sure they need setting each time I reach for them but that is mostly an enjoyable ritual connecting with the watch again.

I do love the accuracy and convenience of quartz watches just not the battery changes.

If I have the option for the same looking watch, I’d go quartz unless the seconds hand missed the seconds markers so bad that it annoys me.

Both . . . But I also think there is a needless divide bc a lot of people in the watch community don’t know what the hell they are talking about and just parrot shit they heard/saw online. It’s far more complex of a matter than mechanical vs quartz! Both are on a spectrum of quality and that’s not even entering spring drive into the equation.

I love both, have both and actually started out with automatic, then mechanical and now really liking quartz. Mostly because having a full collection of mechanical based ones,especially when you have complications in them makes it draining sometimes to set them when you rotate. Now don't get me wrong, on a leisurely Saturday I

/ Sunday morning it's just nice to do it with a coffee and take it I'm and look how the light catches the dial and making sure it's all precise, however on a busy Monday / Tuesday morning no one's got time for that 🤣

So I now have a mixture and I'm really grateful for discovering high quality quartz for that reason, perfectly accurate and ready when you are

The engineering within a watch fascinates me. More so with something vintage. How something so technically complicated could be made 100 years ago, without CNC machinery is an enigma to me.

I give you a 100 year old Buren ladies watch, with a hinged silver case.

I have mostly mechanical watches. Only 2 out of 12 are quartz but I love them just as much as all the others.

I wear both as well. I have more automatics, but am not averse to the right quartz or solar option.

I have seven mechanicals and one solar quartz. I'm new to quartz, but so far I'm enjoying the ease and accuracy that quartz allows. And they are generally less expensive than their mechanical counterparts. I'm looking at two quartz watches right now.

Ahhhh, the romance of an automatic is easy to see, right? U nurture and care for it. For a Quartz, what do they say, u set it and forget it.

Automatic unless I only have enough for the quartz version if that’s available.

Sure, obsolete engineering is cool to think about, but I think it's over-romanticized in watch circles.

I think about my dad's sage advice about mechanical objects: "The more moving parts you have, the more failure points there are."

When people talk about "soul", "heritage", and "feats of engineering" it sounds like mostly narrative sentiment to me. Like what we're really saying is, "Look at this quirky thing that I can't belive still exists and actually works!" And that's cool. You can apply that same appreciation to weird, vintage digital watches. But it's just a sentiment you attached to an object, and it's not the sole domain of automatics.

A quartz and a hand wind feel the same on wrist. A kinetic quartz and an automatic feel the same on wrist. All those tiny spinning gears and springs appeal to you? Cool! I think an electrically charged tuning fork made of crystal pulsing in near-perfect time is straight up wizardry compared to some gears and wheels. And to each their own.

For me, I don't wear my watches because of what they are as objects. They don't reflect or define me, I define them. They have no purpose apart from the ones I assign them. I wear my watches for how they fit into my life and the experiences they can share with me.

The magic isn't in the machine, it's in the relationship between watch and wearer. Which means you have to actually wear the watches.

For me, the more practical choice to wear is almost always quartz. Others may choose differently. It's all gravy and the only way to go wrong is to be a snob about it.

I have both but tend to pick the automatics because I like the idea of all that mechanical design and engineering in my watch. Nobody else knows or cares but at least I amuse myself, lol!

Well, I see the pros and cons on both sides. Mechanical can break down and need service. Quartz doesn't, but when it's dead, it's dead, Jim.

The elephant in the room. Accuracy. I own one of the most accurate wristwatches ever made, the Bulova Lunar Pilot with the 262 kHz movement. And I also own a Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical. Surprisingly accurate for a relatively inexpensive swiss mechanical. I find myself wearing the HKFM nearly every day. Good, descrete size and style and legible as heck.

So yeah. They're both good, both bad. Just depends if you're traditional or not.

I appreciate both and I own both it’s all depending on my mood..

I think about my dad's sage advice about mechanical objects: "The more moving parts you have, the more failure points there are."

"What ain't there can't break." That's why I own an old, low spec car. I have three automatic watches, one quartz and a mecaquartz chronograph in my collection. I hardly ever wear the latter two. Eventually, the chronograph will be replaced by a manual (ST1901) or automatic (NE88) one and I still have the Oceanus S100 or S100B on my shortlist as the grab and go travel watch and the regulator to set the rest of the collection by.

If I can have every single modern watch design, with a high accuracy quartz movement, I would choose that in a heartbeat. To me, the entire point of horology is dead without accuracy. Inaccurate watches are just not as interesting, because the timekeeping is the art.

I still buy both quartz and mechanical, though the majority of my watches are high accuracy quartz, and 95% of the time I wear a HAQ quartz. Mechanicals are great works of art, but indisputably the engineering is all about the quartz. If you can only see “a marvel of engineering” in the mechanical movement, but not in the quartz, then you probably should learn more engineering.

I mostly choose mechanical but I still wear my quartz watches because they are more reliable and hassle free.

I think the problem you have is more about cheaper quartz watches vs your more expensive mechanical so it’s more about the quality of watches rather than the movement.

Check out accutron or fp journe elegante, its not about the movement its about the art, quartz watches can still be very interesting in terms of engineering and art as long as they are not sticking quartz movements just for the sake of it. Enjoy your watches 😊

Just depends what im looking for that day

Manual work? Quartz. Want a watch I don't have to worry about? Quartz.

Working out? Smart watch.

Want something pretty and sophisticated? Mechanical/automatic all the way

I wear all three types just spending on what I'm doing that day, heck sometimes I end up wearing all three types in the same day

Just depends what im looking for that day

Manual work? Quartz. Want a watch I don't have to worry about? Quartz.

Working out? Smart watch.

Want something pretty and sophisticated? Mechanical/automatic all the way

I wear all three types just spending on what I'm doing that day, heck sometimes I end up wearing all three types in the same day

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Both, prefer Automatic.

I worked in precision engineering all my life, so to me a watch is a mechanical marvel.

Quartz, Automatic and Hand Wind for me

If he lets ya