Quartz Watches. Fair Game or No Way?

Currently have 3 of them in my collection 2 of which are solar powered. Nothing wrong with quartz.

I have mostly quartz with a couple of mechanicals. I like them both. I do favour more high end quartz lately (but cannot afford them) but its the age old question which is better. For that you could argue back and forth all day. On a fundamental and simplistic level they both tell the time. One arguably better than the other if being honest. I do not feel that quartz watches are disposable though, even a cheap F-91 will last years and years if taken care of.

Quartz is a game changer in terms of convenience, accuracy and cost of service.

I had G-Shocks as well as the usual quartz watches but really want a GS, Omega or Longines quartz to add to the collection.

I'm about 50/50 of my regular worn watches.

Have found out that when they're worn out, they're scrap. I've an Omega from 1976, movement is obsolete and only repair was old parts salvaged from other old watches or a complete new modern movement. I went for the new movement as I bought to wear & not fussed about originality.

Quartz snobbery strikes me as a noob position. I really only encounter it when people are trying to overcharge me for a vintage watch "It's automatic!"

Around here I don't see anybody turn their nose up because we know enough about the craft to realize it's not as clear cut as "mechanical good, quartz bad."

My "I'll get that someday" watch is a Grand Seiko quartz

The Citizen Chronomaster is definitely one of my grail. Very underrated watch imho. And that dial... soooo good! Quartz watches definitely need more love and attention 🍻

*Photo not mine. Credit to the owner.

Quartz ftw

as I won't spend more than 5k on a watch ever therefore won't get a mechanical with great precision or complications, I don't view quartz watches inferior

Everything is collectable, even literal junk. Depends on the collector.

For me personally, if I like a watch enough to buy or keep it, I will. No matter the movement.

Same here !

I support quartz. HOWEVER, after a certain price point, quartz watch should offer something more than simply being able to tell time. For example: having a chronograph function, solar-power, radio frequency or atomic timekeeping, or extreme shock resistance

I can't get too excited about your common or garden Casio but then...

... there's quartz and there's Grand Seiko 9F.

That is an astonishing dial! Just give me a minute while I pick my jaw up from the floor...

I am at about 50 50 quartz and auto... I do prefer a higher end quartz movement. My 2 Astrons get a ton of wrist time. GPS corrected, Zaratsu polish, hard coating... what's not to love!

I'm sure if Abraham Louis Breguet was raised from the grave and shown a CITIZEN 0100, he would heartily wear it on his wrist.

I actually prefer quartz watches for obvious reasons. Mechanicals are awesome, but quartzs are practical, and affordable.

I have an entire watch box full of timex watches I keep in the spare bedroom to preserve my sanity. If you know you know. Many other quartz pieces sprinkled in elsewhere as well.

I have a box full of luxury automatics but my top 3 most worn watches are all quartz!!!

Have one quartz in my collection. Was a gift from my wife and has an inscription on the rear so definitley a keeper. Don't have an issue with quartz, just prefer auto and manual wind.

I do favor manual wind and automatics, but I enjoy my Quartz watchs as I have a lot of them. I'm not a handy guy, but I do change all my own batteries and as I'm doing it I go in fantasy mode that I'm a watchmaker. lol. Hey I'm not above living in a fantasy world (when it comes to the small things of course). lol. I buy watches that I buy for my display that are never meant to be worn and that includes non-working watches, so to me as long as they have the look I like even non-working watches are worth collecting, but this is because I designed a mini-museum in my home office.

Most of my mechanical watches are under $300 and they are very accurate. I'm pretty sure in the $1,000 to $5k price range you can get a very precise automatic. In my world 5K would be the ultimate grail, but I don't live in that world, so $1,000 would be my limit and that would scare me.

I really like the thought of 50 year service intervals, and if we’re going to (not that all of us do, but a sizeable subset of the watch collecting community) praise innovation and technological development in mechanical watches then surely we have to be ideologically consistent and tip our hats to quartz as the single greatest innovation to occur in wristwatches pretty much ever

Stuff like Richard Mille is funny. A carbon fibre composite case and all of the tricks in the world in order to create a watch with shock resistance almost as good as a Casio F91.

I recently came to a conclusion that if the watch costs under 1k I prefer quartz. There is a big craze for mechanical movements. And because of that there are a ton of cheap, low quality movements. For example the powermatic 80. I have a PRX but when I found out it has plastic parts in it, I’m actually thinking about selling that watch.

Here’s a few of my quality quartz watches. Love them as much as my mechanical watches

Nice collection!

I have several Tag Heuers in my collection. Those quartz watches are 🔥

Nothing wrong with a Quartz, to each their own style and movement imho.

People who just write off quartz on principle are just snobs honestly . . .and of course, as with mechanicals, there is a spectrum of quality when it comes to quartz . . . it's not just like Quartz vs. the World haha.