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: nails used in UK. So other than the design,
: materials, name, prestige, history etc.,how
: a $1400 quartz Omega watch is better than
: $20 quartz Swatch or any other cheap
That's like asking if you took [insert name of your favorite female actress] and stripped away the glamorous makeup, fancy clothes, reputation as a top actress, high salary, and history of making popular movies -- you'd have just a regular working girl. Well, yea, but that's not the point.
It is the design, materials, name, prestige, and history that ARE what makes the difference between an OMEGA and a cheap disposable watch. If you only want to tell time, then a $20 quartz watch is fine.
Really, any watch over $200 is more jewelry and luxury/prestige item than anything else. Trying to justify the $1,000 and up prices of luxury watches based on any technical attributes is futile.
The technology of better versus average quartz movements is not anything really special. Neither really are the mechanical watches. A small device to tell the time is not rocket science. Pretty much all of it is 30-90 year old technology. Nor it is any significant portion of the retail price of a luxury watch.
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