Low-End Mechanical vs. High-End Quartz?
Should you buy a low-end mechanical or a high-end quartz?
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As a new watch enthusiast and collector, this question is intriguing to me. There are pros and cons for both types. I own both types of watches and enjoy them all for different reasons. What is your take on this debate?
Started collecting in Jun 2022 and quickly got hooked!
I would much rather have a high end quartz than a low end mechanical. Personally, all that matters to me is the finishing and the dial.
I personally think is what you can afford. I think is awesome that a person can buy a mechanical watch on the cheap and enjoy the hobby and same goes that you can buy a high-end quartz. Citizen watches made me love quartz especially those Pilot watches so quartz for me.
Mechanical for class and superior breeding (drinks his tea in a china cup with pinkie extended, hum hum hum). 😛
For accuracy and ease of wear, quartz.
If a quartz and a mechanical watch were offered for the same price, same case, dial, and finishing, I would probably pick the quartz watch.
mechanical for the wearing experience
which ever is prettier!!
https://www.watchcrunch.com/mjosamannen/posts/quartz-can-be-awesome-11964
Cheap Mechanical for fun if it, but if I’m going to buy a high end watch, I would want that to be quartz. High end mechanical watches may cost a lot to service!
I like the experience of winging and setting my watches, so generally I’m on the mechanical side but I have a few quartz watches I love. It’s a more nuanced question than just quartz vs mechanical when it comes to purchases.
Neither. I'd get a Certina COSC-certified quartz - though even a Precidrive one would do - and call it a day.
I've been collecting on purpose for just coming up to a year. My small but expanding collection is roughly one third mechanical and the rest quartz half of which are eco drives. I would profess to loving mechanical more but my purchasing does not reflect that!?