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In real life, the suceptibility of a quartz watch to an EMP pulse is probably only realistic in two cases, due to the fact that you need such an incredibly strong EM field to do this. The first is in a room with a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) unit in it, and the nurses would NEVER allow anyboady with ANY metal on them inside the unit. (An MRI, by the way, uses a superconducting magnet to achieve its atronomically high field strength, which is why it's always so damn cold inside them when you're getting scanned.)

The other case is in a nuclear chain reaction using weapons grade fissionable material, and if you're close enough to the source of THAT to fry your watch, then you are probably inside the blast radius for the weapon itself, and you got WAAAYYYY more serious problems to think about.