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Re: ladies constellation

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I doubt if there's much practical difference in durability between automatic and quartz movements, but automatics have a lot more parts that can be affected by rough usage. On the other hand, I don't know if Omega will retain spare parts for quartz watches for as long as they will for automatics. Of course, a quartz Omega should be more accurate and it will cost less. When the battery dies, it stops! and the only remedy is a new battery.

I own examples of each type; a 1994 de Ville Prestige was out by 5 seconds at the end of the first year after I bought it secondhand in 2001 which I thought astonishing. [It then died on me! and had to have the "bolt lever and circuit" serviced, but I think that was probably just bad luck. It has kept similarly excellent time since then].

Whichever watch you get, it'll be superb - it's an Omega, after all!

Derek Duncan

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0 wallclock secs ( 0.17 usr + 0.03 sys = 0.20 CPU)