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: I bought the quartz about 2 years ago and
: within a week went back and exchanged it for
: the auto and have been happy ever since.
A week, eh? It took me two years to do the same thing.
My take on quartz vs auto is this. At £795 the quartz full-size SMP has got to be the best sports watch around for the money. Lots of people will buy it for the reasons I did -- because it looks terrific, it's highly resilient, and it's an Omega (not to mention the Bond connection, heh). I had two good years with mine, treating it abysmally, and it never let me down.
Then, I started getting into watches, reading sites like zOwie, TimeZone etc, and the more I did that, the more persuaded I was by the attraction of an auto. Sure, it's nowhere near as accurate. Sure it's less forgiving of abuse. But it's more >interesting<, and it inspires more pride of ownership. Fortunately, my dealer was prepared to do me a great trade-in deal, and I swapped my quartz for an auto a couple of weeks ago and have never looked back.
So what am I saying here? Basically, if you're not a watch nut (and unlikely to ever become one), you may as well get the quartz and save yourself three hundred quid. But if the romance of owning a pukka Swiss chronometer is what turns you on, you've got to go for auto. You'll only regret it if you don't...
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