Quartz requires zero maintenance (except for the battery replacement) and tells the most accurate time. My Casio F91W will probably outlive me and still be running.
Yes, but there are automatic watches kicking around that are hundreds of years old still functioning . The one I carry from my great grandfather was made in 1888, and it still keeps accurate time as long as you wind it every 2 days. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge GShock guy, but quarts watches will never outlive automatics or have the heirloom appeal that quality automatics do.
You forgot the spring drive, the eco-drive or solar movement and the atomic movement. Also there is technically the pendulum but lets count that as mechanical.
Eco-Drives are classified as Quartz movements, which takes artificial lighting and natural lighting and stores it in a power cell, much like a battery. Atomic movements are either quartz or electrical.
@@TheSamosaCritic I can bought it if I really want, but why when you can get way more accurate watches in less than five bucks. I just don't want to adjust my watches every few days. It's as simple as that. Those who loves mechanical watches don't need to feel attacked with my personal choice.
@@rivalifritdarc2481 Buddy a well serviced automatic watch will keep time +/- 30 seconds a day. We all need our watches to keep good time, but no one needs to be more accurate than that. Nobody would wear automatic watches if they weren't accurate you know!
Viewers will likely come across Bulova Accutron watches as well. This is a resonance technology that uses tuning forks with magnetic inductance coupling to keep time. They are famous for having a slight audible hum. The only watch using this currently is the Accutron Spaceview 2020.
Actually mechanicals seem to be more expensive in my opinion, there are alot more cheap automatics (seiko miyota) but mechanicals seem to be generally rarer and more expensive in the lower price range.
@@supremeleader5516 i know, but theres no need to be awkward about naming conventions. Hand winding watches are called mechanical, Self winding watches are called automatic. That’s just what people have decided to call them
Photovoltaic cells under the dial plus a sturdy low-voltage capacitor eliminate the need for a button cell. Also, in a big watch, a conventional quartz movement combined with a big lithium cell like a 2032 can let the watch run for five years or longer. Those things store a lot of power.
In your first clip for your "quartz" movements you showed an ESA 9162/84. That one is a tuning fork movement and not quartz. Might want to add those to the list of movements cause you showed one.
I’m new to the whole watch hobby, but the hate for quartz watches, moreso if said quartz watch is over a few hundred dollars, among some watch enthusiasts still surprises me. It’s a superior technology compared to the more traditional automatic but they act like they’re getting scammed.
Idk t hate on quarts I have one but for me it’s just something about having a mechanical that makes it feel more luxury (for a lack of a better term). I like hand grinding my own coffee beans and don’t like wearing a digital watch for the just about the same reason
my first watch and the only one is Seiko's automatic watch, if we don't talk about those cheap couple dollar watches. This watch made me to unlike quartz watches. Okay I would take quartz if it would be the watch I really really like but I prefer mechanical or automatic. edit: also the original price was $300 and my dad got it for me under $200. One of the best birthday gifts from my dad. I got this when I was 11 (19 atm) and I really like this watch
Just some pro tip. Its okay to have a quartz watch you may actually wear ur quartz more in your collection. Its very convenient and it looks good. Good quartz movement are the tissot prx, citizen eco drive, victorinox inox to name a few. And ofcourse the casio and swatch.
Tissot prx etc is not watch movements but watch models, a Watch movement is something like the selitta sw200 that is found in alot of Automatic watches. If you are gonna talk shop, learn it properly, just a tip
So many watches here are depicted 10 past 10. I just saw a video 3 shorts up explaining how watches are displayed at 10 past 10 and if its a rolex its just a display with no mechanism ect.
The 10:10 thing is interesting. Brands often use it in ads/shops/etc. as supposedly the symmetry looks better, and a bit like a smiley face (not sure about that one, ha) and more likely to buy. For Rolex, the myth is that if you see a watch in a Rolex store specifically set at 10:10, it might not have a movement. I've been in a Rolex store recently and plenty of the watches were running, so maybe they only do it with their rarer pieces? Not sure.
@@menadionnassertamtama379They all require maintenance eventually. I get my automatics serviced every 5 years as a rule. Servicing can also be a joy if you develop relationships at your local watch place. I love sitting around talking watches at my local shop.
I understand that quartz is more accurate but i tend to dislike them overlal. I mean i always keep one in my collection but I lean automatic for most of them.
It's one of the best types of movements, but it's quite niche (only exists in Grand Seiko) so more appropriate for an extensive video rather than a brief high-level (IMO!)
I wish you didn’t introduce manual-wind/hand-winding mechanical watches just “mechanical”. I’ve noticed a lot of watch people do this and I think it makes things very confusing newcomers, especially since we don’t talk about the movements this way. Most uploaded comment here is a good example of how misusing “mechanical” makes things ambiguous. Do they mean that all mechanical watches are more expensive or sur manual-wind ones? It was difficult for me, a watch person, to tell Similarly, I’ve noticed the problem of watch people overusing the term “automatic” almost synonymously with “mechanical watch”, ex. “Quartz and automatic”.
Technically? No, all automatic are actually and literally mechanical. Why are people saying mechanical and automatic are two different types of movements. I really don't get this. 🤔
This. It makes talking about automatic movements and hand wound movements very frustrating, cause it makes things needlessly ambiguous. No one talks about the movements like this only the watches, which is very frustrating
If you have even a slightly decent sized collection just go for the hand wind watches. The cases are smaller, the watches are lighter and the movements look better. Your auto is going to be dead anyway if you have a decent collection.
The features of three types of watches are good, the battery type can last up to 10 years depending on the battery, while wind and mechanical-quartz/automatic are also precision based designs, including balance, making it as accurate and genuine.
Im confusion my watch is quartz because its using batteries but its also mechanical because I have to set the time with a dial and its solar powered so the battery never runs out. Super confused its the Seiko v158 0A0B rail road approved watch I had to buy working for Metro in LA
@@ChronometerCheckThey might be referring to watches like the Seiko Kinetic which has a rotor that is coupled to a generator which charges a capacitor. Other than that there's the famous Grand Seiko Spring Drive. Both involve a quartz crystal buts it's a far cry to call them quartz movements.
This is all wrong. Conflates how energy is stored and how time is kept. You have batteries (be they replaceable or solar recharged), springs (be they manually or automatically wound), and capacitor (see Accutron 2020 spaceview). Then you have quartz movements (digital or automatic) and escapements. Then you have things like Seiko's Spring Drive, which stores energy in a spring, but the time keeping comes from a quartz movement.
Quartz watches are also mechanical even though not classified as such but they do have a setting function and drive train as well but are only powered by a battery and quartz. No mainspring …
The classification system refers to how the movement receives power. Since a battery has no moving parts, a quartz watch would not be said to be mechanical.
It's really dumb that manual-wind watches are just called mechanical watches the term mechanical does nothing to differentiate it from an automatic, why not just call them manuals and automatics?? The worst part is that the nonsensical nomenclature is used by horologist/watch enthusiasts ... one of the only examples I've seen in all the hobbies and fields I've dipped my toe into where the true enthusiasts of a subject matter all accept something that's just objectively wrong
Quartz requires zero maintenance (except for the battery replacement) and tells the most accurate time. My Casio F91W will probably outlive me and still be running.
👍👍👍👍
bro got 7 years to live 💀
@@jeebusmcfries8114mine is 11 years and still running😂
Yes, but there are automatic watches kicking around that are hundreds of years old still functioning . The one I carry from my great grandfather was made in 1888, and it still keeps accurate time as long as you wind it every 2 days. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge GShock guy, but quarts watches will never outlive automatics or have the heirloom appeal that quality automatics do.
🤣 It will certainly outlive you if you're on your death bed or old as fuck. 😅
You forgot the spring drive, the eco-drive or solar movement and the atomic movement. Also there is technically the pendulum but lets count that as mechanical.
Eco-Drives are classified as Quartz movements, which takes artificial lighting and natural lighting and stores it in a power cell, much like a battery.
Atomic movements are either quartz or electrical.
@@LockheedMartinF22Raptor7 so?
I'd love to see a pendulum watch 😂😂😂
@@nashooo5903 You know shit like google images exists right?
@@provuksmc6619 I know, I'm messing with you since there's no such thing as a pendulum watch. You meant a pendulum clock.
I appreciate automatic watch and it's craftsmanship, but for me, accuracy is the most important thing for watches
Same for me, accuracy for your value. Like I love my Seiko 5’s craftsmanship, but I can’t rely on it when its 10seconds off per day.
You guys operating Airports or something 🤣!!??
@@rivalifritdarc2481 People who can't afford mechanical watches say exactly this. Lol.
@@TheSamosaCritic I can bought it if I really want, but why when you can get way more accurate watches in less than five bucks.
I just don't want to adjust my watches every few days. It's as simple as that. Those who loves mechanical watches don't need to feel attacked with my personal choice.
@@rivalifritdarc2481 Buddy a well serviced automatic watch will keep time +/- 30 seconds a day.
We all need our watches to keep good time, but no one needs to be more accurate than that. Nobody would wear automatic watches if they weren't accurate you know!
I really love the tuning fork movements!:)
You forgot the most important one, the bowel movement. I just absolutely love the way the dial plays with the bathroom light. Ok, ciao!
It doesn't show the time though. But who cares about that, everyone has a phone.
hublot uses those
The minute, I read that all I could think about was Nicco Leonard and Hublot 😂
Viewers will likely come across Bulova Accutron watches as well. This is a resonance technology that uses tuning forks with magnetic inductance coupling to keep time. They are famous for having a slight audible hum.
The only watch using this currently is the Accutron Spaceview 2020.
Actually mechanicals seem to be more expensive in my opinion, there are alot more cheap automatics (seiko miyota) but mechanicals seem to be generally rarer and more expensive in the lower price range.
I’m confused…
@@friskjidjidoglu7415me too, how does adding a feature, automatic winding, make the watch cheaper?
Automatics are also mechanical
@@supremeleader5516 i know, but theres no need to be awkward about naming conventions. Hand winding watches are called mechanical, Self winding watches are called automatic. That’s just what people have decided to call them
@@Ryann9 would you rather have a lotus evora or a tesla?
That Bambino you had is both manual wind and automatic! Awesome watch!
Quartz is to gift others, Mechanical is to gift yourself ❤
My Seiko quartz, bought it in 1983...still kicking running accurately! Gonna outlive me!
I have seiko automatic watch 4206 501B my father bought it in 1965 something and its still working perfectly ❤
Photovoltaic cells under the dial plus a sturdy low-voltage capacitor eliminate the need for a button cell. Also, in a big watch, a conventional quartz movement combined with a big lithium cell like a 2032 can let the watch run for five years or longer. Those things store a lot of power.
In your first clip for your "quartz" movements you showed an ESA 9162/84. That one is a tuning fork movement and not quartz. Might want to add those to the list of movements cause you showed one.
I like this dude. Down to earth and great to listen too ❤
Aw, much apprecited
I’m new to the whole watch hobby, but the hate for quartz watches, moreso if said quartz watch is over a few hundred dollars, among some watch enthusiasts still surprises me. It’s a superior technology compared to the more traditional automatic but they act like they’re getting scammed.
paying big cash for cheap tech is crazy. i appreciate an affordable quartz tho.
Idk t hate on quarts I have one but for me it’s just something about having a mechanical that makes it feel more luxury (for a lack of a better term). I like hand grinding my own coffee beans and don’t like wearing a digital watch for the just about the same reason
Casio watches are the best
my first watch and the only one is Seiko's automatic watch, if we don't talk about those cheap couple dollar watches. This watch made me to unlike quartz watches. Okay I would take quartz if it would be the watch I really really like but I prefer mechanical or automatic.
edit: also the original price was $300 and my dad got it for me under $200. One of the best birthday gifts from my dad. I got this when I was 11 (19 atm) and I really like this watch
Solar is my go to. It’s literally powered by nature and that for me is the coolest thing ever!
Personally for me automatics are since they are powered by movement, and works mechanically. Something about how the gears just works
@@goldenoodles6281 Horses for courses, I respect it!
Just some pro tip. Its okay to have a quartz watch you may actually wear ur quartz more in your collection. Its very convenient and it looks good. Good quartz movement are the tissot prx, citizen eco drive, victorinox inox to name a few. And ofcourse the casio and swatch.
Tissot prx etc is not watch movements but watch models, a Watch movement is something like the selitta sw200 that is found in alot of Automatic watches. If you are gonna talk shop, learn it properly, just a tip
@@mathiashallstrom4982 "with" good quartz movement.
Literally have that exact orient Watch it is so pretty
So many watches here are depicted 10 past 10. I just saw a video 3 shorts up explaining how watches are displayed at 10 past 10 and if its a rolex its just a display with no mechanism ect.
The 10:10 thing is interesting. Brands often use it in ads/shops/etc. as supposedly the symmetry looks better, and a bit like a smiley face (not sure about that one, ha) and more likely to buy.
For Rolex, the myth is that if you see a watch in a Rolex store specifically set at 10:10, it might not have a movement. I've been in a Rolex store recently and plenty of the watches were running, so maybe they only do it with their rarer pieces? Not sure.
@@ChronometerCheck without movement watch's second hand should lay down to 6 O'clock position due to not having angage with the initial torque.
@@CACOPHONIE d lmao if this was true then the hands would fall out. It's a dummy movement. It holds them.
Also notice the date is always the 8th
Kinetic, tuning fork, digital
Quartz for me .
Quartz is the one for me. Why? Because I’m lazy. Set it and you forget it. 😂
but you still have to replace the battery..automatic watch go on and on with no maintenance if you want to
@@menadionnassertamtama379 solar quartz is the best
@@menadionnassertamtama379 but its not that classy which is the draw back. Its like saying a tesla is faster but its an electric car so it has no soul
@@menadionnassertamtama379They all require maintenance eventually. I get my automatics serviced every 5 years as a rule. Servicing can also be a joy if you develop relationships at your local watch place. I love sitting around talking watches at my local shop.
I understand that quartz is more accurate but i tend to dislike them overlal. I mean i always keep one in my collection but I lean automatic for most of them.
That orient dial color is magnificent
Champaign on the Bambino or syrup on the diver? Either way, yes!
I am new to all this and I was wondering. Why don't you watch TH-camrs add spring drives to this list. Are they considered automatic?
It's one of the best types of movements, but it's quite niche (only exists in Grand Seiko) so more appropriate for an extensive video rather than a brief high-level (IMO!)
Yeah they are VERY unique.
I'm so in love with sinn 856
Quartz chronograph all day every day!
what about the solar power Citizen Eco Drive & the Electromatic Seiko Kinenetic.
Thanks!
Spring drive by seiko
spring drive ?
Spring drive is a type of automatic movement.
I wish you didn’t introduce manual-wind/hand-winding mechanical watches just “mechanical”. I’ve noticed a lot of watch people do this and I think it makes things very confusing newcomers, especially since we don’t talk about the movements this way. Most uploaded comment here is a good example of how misusing “mechanical” makes things ambiguous. Do they mean that all mechanical watches are more expensive or sur manual-wind ones? It was difficult for me, a watch person, to tell
Similarly, I’ve noticed the problem of watch people overusing the term “automatic” almost synonymously with “mechanical watch”, ex. “Quartz and automatic”.
Fair point!
I really need someone's unbiased opinion, how good really are those sugess mechanical chronograph watches?
What about solar watch
What about the spring drive? Mecaquartz ? And the electrostatic movements ?!?!
Great video
Technically? No, all automatic are actually and literally mechanical. Why are people saying mechanical and automatic are two different types of movements. I really don't get this. 🤔
This. It makes talking about automatic movements and hand wound movements very frustrating, cause it makes things needlessly ambiguous. No one talks about the movements like this only the watches, which is very frustrating
If you have even a slightly decent sized collection just go for the hand wind watches. The cases are smaller, the watches are lighter and the movements look better. Your auto is going to be dead anyway if you have a decent collection.
The features of three types of watches are good, the battery type can last up to 10 years depending on the battery, while wind and mechanical-quartz/automatic are also precision based designs, including balance, making it as accurate and genuine.
Meanwhile people from 1950s : we didn't know we are rich
I don't see any spring drive here🤔
What about solar?
Sometimes more expensive than quartz what do u mean
I want one with a sweeping second hand, are all automatics sweeping?
All automatic and hand-wound movements have a sweeping seconds hand, yes :)
@@OriginalLoLRandom Thanks 👍
Yes!
You got it. :)
Im confusion my watch is quartz because its using batteries but its also mechanical because I have to set the time with a dial and its solar powered so the battery never runs out. Super confused its the Seiko v158 0A0B rail road approved watch I had to buy working for Metro in LA
Sounds like it's solar. Solar powered watches are battery powered, they just use a solar powered battery.
@@ChronometerCheck which last longer than conventional batteries or solar powered?
@@Uno_Floydd Solar
@@ChronometerCheck thank you. Its just quartz solar you are correct
Accuracy of Automatic?
Whats the watch hes winding at the end?
What Is with kinetic
You forget to mention digital watch
That’s quartz..
Anyone have a genuine recommendation for quiet watches?
Solar powered over battery powered watch every day
Solar?
Eco drive by Citizen.
Why do we wear watch to tell the accurate time 🗿
Bro can i buy the benyar watch in Amazon or Flipkart which looks like rolex Daytona for Rs2700 is that good one pls tell me bro
not good, instead go for hmt if ur on a budget
really? most of Patek's highest end watches, like most of the Grand Complications are hand wind.
Quartz movement doesn't have to be powered by a battery.
Such as?
@@ChronometerCheckThey might be referring to watches like the Seiko Kinetic which has a rotor that is coupled to a generator which charges a capacitor. Other than that there's the famous Grand Seiko Spring Drive. Both involve a quartz crystal buts it's a far cry to call them quartz movements.
@@ChronometerCheck solar
I have atomatic watch
This is all wrong. Conflates how energy is stored and how time is kept. You have batteries (be they replaceable or solar recharged), springs (be they manually or automatically wound), and capacitor (see Accutron 2020 spaceview). Then you have quartz movements (digital or automatic) and escapements. Then you have things like Seiko's Spring Drive, which stores energy in a spring, but the time keeping comes from a quartz movement.
Quartz watches are also mechanical even though not classified as such but they do have a setting function and drive train as well but are only powered by a battery and quartz. No mainspring …
The classification system refers to how the movement receives power. Since a battery has no moving parts, a quartz watch would not be said to be mechanical.
I switched to quartz watches....because of my job
Eco Drive
Wt about eco drive??
Quartz but the battery is charged via solar
It's a type of quartz movement. An awesome one!
Exactly! Thanks sir
Smart watch is now most popular.
Spring drivee
Mechanical watch is most reliable
I'll just use my phone.
I have an Apple watch. I can make phone calls with it and so much more.
I swear by mechanical
I prefer it
Hi!
Good
3 main types of watch movements?
You mean: electronic, quartz and mechanical I guess...
Quartz is electronic
It's really dumb that manual-wind watches are just called mechanical watches the term mechanical does nothing to differentiate it from an automatic, why not just call them manuals and automatics?? The worst part is that the nonsensical nomenclature is used by horologist/watch enthusiasts ... one of the only examples I've seen in all the hobbies and fields I've dipped my toe into where the true enthusiasts of a subject matter all accept something that's just objectively wrong
Or we could wear a smart watch😱😖
handwound automatic is the best for sure
digital watch crying in the corner
Gay?