Read these quotes from Rolf Schnyder of Ulysse Nardin

"One interesting thing about watches is that in almost every culture they are perceived as a form of currency. If you brought your watch to a pawnshop in Asia, the first thing they would do is to check if it was mechanical. If it was quartz it was always rejected. That is because they understood that a mechanical watch can always be repaired. For this reason the mechanical watch has permanent value. No wonder quartz watches do not find their way into the big watchauction catalogs."

"Watchmaking is is the merger of science and art. With the advent of the quartz era man acheived the ultimate accuracy he sought but eliminated the need for human beings. Almost too late we discovered that the beauty of a mechanical watch had never been in the accuracy it represented. In each mechanical watch beats an engine crafted by human labor that was endowed and born through human abilities. It was this humanity that appealed to us because in each timepiece we saw a reflection of ourselves. Any watch is endowed with an innate poetry because of the human creativity it expresses."