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Originally posted by brminpin:

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Originally posted by at-home-daddy:
Need some help from the watch experts: Looking to pick up a nice, new watch for $350 - $500....

Here are my votes:

SARB033


SARB017


The SARB017 has much better fit and finish than the SARB033, but it's a bit pricier and does not have an exhibition back. Also, the 017 comes with a horrible strap so you'll most likely opt for the Seiko bracelet at ~$120 or a different real leather strap.

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Originally posted by ShneaSIG:
Running at approximately +1 second per month is perfectly acceptable for a quartz movement. You'd likely have to spend far more to get a watch that runs any better.

One second a month is more than acceptable for a quartz, and is damn good.

A run of the mill quartz can be expected to be accurate to about ten seconds a month. Fifteen seconds isn't out of what you would expect for a cheap quartz watch.

Seiko makes a high accuracy quartz movement that is spec-ed at 10 seconds a year. I have one of those, and mine is better than advertised at about four or five seconds a year. (It is hard to be more precise than that - 5 seconds a year isn't much.) Citizen also makes a 5 second a year quartz movement. That is top-notch accuracy, though.

The main enemy of quartz accuracy is thermal variation. The quartz crystal's vibration is affected by temperature. A purer crystal will vary with temperature in more predictable ways, but you still have to compensate for that temperature variation in some way. Different makers do it differently, and they are secretive about their techniques.

One second a month is quite good for a quartz watch. Under that is getting into excellent territory.

By contrast, the best mechanical watches can't be expected to do much better than 4 seconds a month, and that is the best of them. A "normal" mechanical could be off by 15 or 20 seconds a month, and that isn't bad at all.

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My Vizio with a Qing dynasty sword and scabbard.

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brminpin

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Just picked this little beauty up from my dealer. Really digging it.

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brminpin

Nice watch, brminpin.

I'd like a spring drive, but they always put those power reserves on them, and I don't care for that complication. Seiko loves power reserve indicators, which seem useless to me.