![]() Certainly, at the top of the quartz movement tree, there are some real beauties, and these include hand-made movements that are a genuine part of the watchmaker's art.įor me, one of the real "victories" of the quartz era has been the ability to produce inexpensive yet effective analogue chronograph movements that can be used on watches down to a tenth of a second or so. It is true that there are certain "workhorse" quartz movements that seem to turn up time after time in all sorts of watches, but there are other movements which give one a little lift when they are encountered in a watch. It is sometimes said that quartz movements are somehow "soulless" when compared to mechanical movements, but I am not sure that I agree with this. I must also just reply to Bluehaze284 here, to confirm that many quartz movements contain rubies, some of them containing a considerable number of jewels. I agree with xellos99 about the early Seiko quartz movements, which have a number of jewels and seem to be of good quality, and the upmarket ETA quartz movements. Some watches that look fine on the outside sometimes have crappy plastic movements of the no-name variety, while others that seem to be as cheap as chips will be found sporting a perfectly good Miyota metal movement. ![]() I have been collecting quartz watches avidly for quite some time and opening cases of quartz watches can be quite an eye-opener.
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