How about vintage quartz?

Parts, provenance and people.

Quartz “repair” is not usually as “simple” as mechanical, you can’t often just replace a part even than you can replace things like coils and the odd part, and therefore quite often it’s movement swaps. I’ve done it for a few Omegas, including my grandfather‘s Seamaster. Older models might not be around, so you would probably need to consider a modern equivalent and if it’s compatible with dial, handset, etc… Saying that, it depends upon your watchmaker and the brand, you might find a maker who can do the works and/or the brand can sort you out. It’s worth checking this sort of thing out.

I do have a fair amount of 80s-00s Tag quartz. I love them, so I’m not saying you need to sack quartz off, but the same rules apply as it does for mechanicals.

Vintage digital is a little more difficult, and actually one would argue that models from Heuer or Omega were not particularly prevalent or bestsellers, so therefore upkeep is going to be harder should you run across problems.

Vintage electronic is a bit of a gamble. Tuning fork movements are expensive, trust me, I’ve been (and continue to be) burned by my Seamaster f300Hz.

thx man, so usual option is just swap older quartz movement to the new movement if it compatible with the rest of the watch right? is the 80s tag quartz of yours still running well?

I do collect vintage digital watches from the '70s and '80s, but it is always a bit of a crap shoot, and I have received watches in the past that technically worked, but had serious problems. I am getting a couple of them worked on, but parts are problematic.

Sort of, insofar as I have kept some (most) of my older watches, and so fell into it by accident. (As with watch collecting in general)

I did start trying to track down replacements of two digital watches I had when I was younger (and sadly lost — screw you resin straps!) but finding them in decent condition or at a reasonable price has been pretty much impossible. 
 

But they wouldn’t be my watches, if you see what I mean, so it may be fruitless. (Am still annoyed I lost a seventies bug LCD when I was a kid, but I think I know where in the family that has gone… but I am unlikely to see it again.)

I also fancied tracking down a BladeRunner LCD watch, but as with things like the Aliens watches, I am not the only person who has had that thought.

thx for sharing, is it because it is too old then they stop working or is it because previous owner didnt take care of it very well?

I imagine a combination of the two.

A quality quartz will be completely serviceable. And there are the option to hunt down spare a movement. You might need to do that to if you got a real old watch or it got an obscure movement anyways.

Quartz seems more durable to me as long as the battery acid is kept an eye on 😊

Absolutely - mostly it’s a battery change and you’re good to go

This is my 1st venture into vintage Quartz

nice, it is looks in great condition. is it from 80?

Pretty sure it's from 89

I don’t know a ton about quartz, but the only vintage quartz I want is my dad’s early 80’s square gold Seiko. 

I am a big quartz fan, but I must agree with @chronotriggered. I've had quartz Mickey Mouse and Timex watches bought new in my adulthood that were eventually deemed utterly irreparable after stopping, but 70-100 year old no-name hand-winders are somehow no problem whatsoever to revive after decades of dormancy. 

Technically I have a couple 90s era quartz cheapies, but I see them as 8-track cassettes that may self-destruct at any point. There is a binary nature of electronic devices that doesn't allow the fuzzy "kind of or sometimes works" realm of spotty mechanical items.