You know, I am always curious when I see drummers rocking automatic watches and Chad Smith plays the drums very hard. Makes me wonder how that Daytona stands up!

But also, up until the quartz crisis, all musicians, and everyone really wore mechanical watches. Sometimes I feel like an idiot focusing on quartz only for drumming but at the same time, I don't make a ton of money so if I can have some great quartz watches, a few automatics and have less repair costs and headaches, that seems to be the direction I'm heading. But you could be totally right, all of this could just be silly. I've heard very conflicting things about shock to watches - pros and cons. It's just hard to know for sure!

I love the 556 RS - may get it some day, but that's not quartz. Can't remember, does Sinn have quartz watches that are under 40 or under in mm?

I would have been in trouble had they brought that out.

The G-Shock is fun, but sometimes I wear a suit and tie to gigs and other times something else - so I like variety, plus I don't play metal or stadium pop gigs - mostly jazz based stuff. For more formal attire gigs I now have a Junghans Max Bill quartz which is great. I have the Seiko solar Speedtimer for something more casual. A couple of more watches and I'll have a nice selection of quartz to pick from for different gigs!

I actually went to the new palatial one believe it or not. Maybe he was reticent to show me more stuff. But in terms of the heritage models anyways, that’s what he showed me. He said that in general, even though the quartz models always sell well, they don’t restock them as much as they do with the automatic or hand wound ones and he wasn’t sure why.

I did eventually trek my way all the way down to Soho to the G-Shock store. :-)

Sometimes I’ve noticed the bracelet clasp or the watch strap buckle will hit against the rim of the drum, so that’s been one of the bigger issues with wearing a watch and playing drums when I play side stick style. And it took some getting used to having that wait on the wrist but I feel a lot easier about it now which is nice :-)

What a great looking watch! I'm a big fan of white hour and minute hands against a dark colored dial, stylish legibility is def a big plus for me. congrats!👍