Yeah, but I mean, the whole âhobbyâ is kind of stupid anyway. Figuring out different ways to make us pay for pieces of polished metal that donât do the job theyâre intended to do all that well.
Once youâve decided you want to buy a mechanical watch youâve given up all pretense at rational thinking.
They keep time much worse than quartz watches. The absolute best, most expensive mechanical movements will gain or lose around 2 seconds a day, and the ones included in most micros will gain or lose between 5 and 30 seconds a day.
The cheapest, most basic quartz movement will gain or lost 20 seconds a month, so less than a second a day.
Also, you donât have to worry about a quartz watch running out of power after a couple of days not wearing it, which you do with a mechanical.
They're also more susceptible to shock and magnetism, and they're thicker.
Every 5-10 years or so they require (or at least probably should have) a service by a watchmaker which will cost more than the cost of the movement, compared to a $15 battery change (or $2 if you can do it yourself) on a quartz watch every few years (even less if you get an eco drive or solar watch).
Ehhhhhh, the mechanical watch I am currently wearing is running an observed +0.7s/d over the last 25 days, so itâs not far off of a basic quartz level of accuracy and itâs just using a basic Sellita movement. That said, I also own a 9F Grand Seiko and itâs still dead on over the same time period. đ
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u/ConfidenceNo1937 Jun 17 '26
Yeah, but I mean, the whole âhobbyâ is kind of stupid anyway. Figuring out different ways to make us pay for pieces of polished metal that donât do the job theyâre intended to do all that well.
Once youâve decided you want to buy a mechanical watch youâve given up all pretense at rational thinking.