I only buy automatic EXCEPT where its Ecodrive or its Casio 10yr battery where its a throwaway watch.
Mechanic (IE Automatic) Watches - Discuss
tonyjzx on 22/01/2017 - 14:32
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yes I had the same thoughts but my price bracket kept creeping up and up… oh a $250 Citizen Eco?
How about a $500 Tissot? $1,000 Oris? $2,000 Omega?
I thought about wear and tear and basically I found that my Omega wears very well due to the divers case and sapphire glass.
eg. my Seiko 5 ended up with scratches after a month.
My Omega never got scratches even after 10yrs.
I'm not a tradesman but I worked with the railways military factories etc. so you do get bangs and scratches.
I have just bought another automatic that ended up at $200 which is nothing since my fiancee now has my Omega (I realise this isnt the smartest decision).
Will probably buy another Omega in the near future.
Mechanical watches have a smooth seconds hand that sweep.its awesome to look at. This is because they tick-tock, battery watches only tick. They miss the tocking parts because it's not good qyality gears inside
No, mechanical watches may have a 'sweeping second hand' as the oscilations of the second hand are pulsing ~5-7 times a second and are too fast for the human eye. They wouldnt have a tick-tock but rather a tick-tick-tick…
Most quartz watches with a second hand are designed to pulse every second based on the circuitry, this has nothing to do with poor quality gears but rather a simple function of how they are designed not too mention this is far more accurate than even the most expensive mechanical watches.
No. Sweeping seconds hand in mechanical watches is tick then tock. Digital is only tick. Mechanical therefore moves smoother.
Because of the tick then tock it is at least twice as smooth.
Eg. Tick,tock,tick,tock in mechanical.
Tick,tick in digital
Inclusion of tocks makes mechanical become smoother (negating boluva digital sweeping tech)
Ve haf da vays to make you tok……..
I have a thing for automatic watches too. I'm not a watch expert but I like to do some research on the movement before buying, and there's something about automatic watches which fascinates me. Unfortunately there aren't a lot of cheap automatic watches for women. I really like the automatic women's watches from Omega but all of them are sooooo expensive! I do have a quartz Omega which I bought in Singapore, the great thing about it is because it's quartz, it's super thin and really really light. It looks fantastic on small wrists and classy for formal occasions. I'm one of those people who can't live without a watch on my left wrist, no matter how much technology I have with me, I always end up looking at my wrist for the time, that habit's probably going to stick with me for life.
I also have an automatic Hamilton which I love to death. I bought it for a really good price 7 or 8 years ago and the quality is superb. I also have an automatic Orient in rose gold and a pink and white leather band, absolutely cute.
These days, we just end up buying automatic watches for hubby as I'm kinda stuck with my Huawei watch now. The problem with a smart watch is you can't really change them as you'll miss all the data for that day. I do change the bands and the face, but that's about it.
Here's a quick generalisation, about some guy with not enough wrists:
Luxury: Omega (top-shelf, w/o the Rolex hype)
Kinetic: SEIKO Diver's/Superior 5/Grand
Quartz: Victorinox
Solar: Citizen EcoDrive
Digital: Casio digital/base G-Shock 10yr
Fitness: Garmin Fenix 3 HR
Smart: Huawei WatchI love anything automatic. I have been eyeing out Jaeger LeCoultre for a long time, but ended up getting a Rolex datejust, which serves my purpose as I love wearing my watch everyday, it's also made of great quality - min wear and tear signs and price wise (if you say compare to a Tiffany watch, which is at the similar price), then I'd rather get a datejust.
I got my Seiko 5 when I was about 10 from my father.
It was second hand then and likely 4 or 5 years old.
I'm very late forties now and its been my only watch up until this year when I fancied a Garmin Vivoactive.
I would still wear the Seiko as my dress watch.
I think I've had it serviced about 4 times and had the faceted (bevelled?) glass replaced twice.
It'll likely outlast me I reckon.
Mechanical is a watch with a spring as the store of energy. It includes automatics and manual winding watches.
Automatics use a weighted spinning flywheel to wind the spring from the movement of your wrist. Manual watches require you to spin the crown to store energy in the spring.
Manual watches still have a place as they can be much thinner than an auto.
I have a couple of quartz watches people have given me. I also have a couple of vintage Russian and swiss manual winders, and so swiss and Japanese autos.
I don't have any expensive watches, I like finding attractive pieces that are cheap (like Seiko 5 series) or unique (like so vintage models I have).
One day I might buy an expensive swiss watch, but my watches tend to live a hard life, so I would only wear it on special occasions, and these are few and far enough apart that I start to think why bother!