: I will take my Omega Chronometer and Anna
: anytime...I could keep both wound up very
: nicely...especially if my Omega is placed on
: her night stand...{hey it is a heavy watch,
: I would not want to hurt her so I would take
: it off.} Merry Christmas..............
I think that at some level the fine watch industry doesn't know what it is doing. They make a product which performs worse than its competitors but desperately try to create an aura of intangibles to make up for it. The problem is that some aspects of high end mechanical watches are nice. This is because they have coupled good finishing and detailing with their high end mechanical products. Its a bit like getting leather seats in a Nissan Maxima(255hp) and then concluding that powerful engines are somehow associated with deluxe finishing. What is really going on is that from a marketing perspective, they are trying to package mechanical watches as the top product and couple other clearly desirable features along side. So, when you hear someone say that mechanical watches are more "finely crafted" they aren't wrong. The problem is that it doesn't have to be that way. I wish there were more choices along the lines of the Citizen Skyhawk but with a case and bracelet like a Seamaster. I realize that there is a digital Speedmaster but itsn't solar. Consequently you have to contend with the possibility that the battery could die on a trip. Too often the choice you have is to get state of the art features in a plastic watch.
Most of this is a matter of personal taste and preference. However, if you think back to the 70's, everyone was impressed with the increased accuracy of electronic watches. They aren't intrinsically cheap junk; the watch companies have only chosen to provide you with that combination of properties. Its their arbitrary choice.
I know that "me too" products fail having no real reason for anyone to buy them. What the watch industry has done is to make a suboptimal product and try to pass off a mass produced product as something unique and custom. They're pretending that a Toyota Camry is a 1930's Rolls Royce.
So what should you get? It depends on what you want. If you want high end jewelry, you probably will do best with a mechanical watch. If you want lots of functions and accuracy, you want quartz. (The watch industry has decided that if you get quartz you usually get it with few functions unless you want a low quality case.)If you want start of the art technology, solar, quartz, no battery, lots of functions and a high quality case as I do, there isn't a choice at this time.
