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I had the same dilemma recently. I was set on quartz, as I wanted a watch that I didn't need to reset for months at a time, was rugged, waterproof and almost indistructable. But after reading up (on this site and others) I changed my views.
With an automatic, you are wearing a piece of precision engineering, a minature mechanical wonder and an engine that you *participate* in keeping alive. The movement of your arms powers the beast and it can't survive long without you.
The automatics are less accurate than the quartz, but ask yourself, how much accuracy do you really need for everyday life? You're not navigating across the sea with only the sun, a sextant and your watch. you'll have to reset your watch at the end of 5 of the months in a year anyway to reset the date. As long as the timekeeping is resonable for 30 days (in my case +1 minute in a month), why worry?
An automatic also gets you additional heft to the machinery, and I always wanted a big chunk of metal on my wrist, plus you get a sweep second hand which to me is a detail that sets a quality apart from the everyday pack.
All these details added up for me, and I bought an automatic. Black face Seamaster Pro 300m on the Bond bracelet, and I love it.
- Fatlimey
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