What I think is so cool about watches, is that the basic analog battery powered quartz movement hasn’t really changed enough to mention since 1979 when I paid $$37.50 for a basic Sieko day date watch at the Humansville Montgomery Ward’s catalog store. They had a rack of them on sale. The dial reads LeGant, but it’s a Sieko and it’s ran continuously now for 45 years with a new battery every few years, when the second hand skips.
It’s basically this Pulsar brand watch, except mine is all stainless.
I also own a Waltham 1883 movement pocket watch with an engraving Fred Hert -1892-.
It still works and keeps railroad time, plus or minus about ten seconds a week. A completely good and useable time piece, that served Fred Hert. a local farmer, as his Sunday watch for over sixty years. His great nephew remembered the old man wearing it.
My father left me his 1958 Hamilton Thin O Matic that I had serviced last about thirty years ago. It’s still all the watch I would ever need. Keeps great time, within a few seconds a week.
Our watches are going to outlive us by a hundred years and still work, if they aren’t just beat to death. New synthetic watch oils mean a mechanical watch only used occasionaly will run forever.
My father’s watch used a basic self winding ETA Swiss movement that is still made today in both Switzerland and copied in China, and the Chinese version likely costs less than in 1958.
A good new watch is kind of like a good new briar pipe.
Take your pick.
More money more fancy, but there are no bad new ones.
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