Wrist Watches: How to Choose the Right One?

Thinking about buying a wristwatch? If you are the person who, before buying something that is meaningful for you, learns basic characteristics, reviews and other useful information, then this article is for you.

Probably the very first question when buying a watch is "which clock is better?". But this is a common question, which actually has a lot of sub-questions.
I would like to consider the very first question, to which you must answer: do you want mechanics or quartz? After all, wrist watches are of two types.

You ask the counter question: "Which is better?".

Mechanical wristwatches are with automatic winding (automatic) and without. But here everything is simple: with self-winding means that you just need to wear them every day, and they will walk; Without self-winding - you have to wind up the clock every day by hand (in the old-fashioned way).

Let us examine the main advantages and disadvantages of mechanics and quartz, these fundamentally different mechanisms.
Let's start with the pluses of mechanical watches:

• A watch with a "living" heart. Many people like that the clock is moving, "living" their lives. Particularly beautiful look watches with a transparent back cover or with a bare "heart" on the dial.
• In such a watch, you do not need to change the batteries. If they are all right, then about the workshops and batteries should not even remember, wear and have fun.
• On the verge of mysticism, but nevertheless on some people quartz watches break down, stop. A phenomenon that I can not explain, but for such people only a mechanical watch.

Minuses of mechanical watches:

• The most important disadvantage is that you have to wear a watch every day. If you want to take them off at the weekend, then be ready to wind up and fail up the time on Monday. Alas, without this, nowhere.
• The second significant disadvantage is that the mechanical watches, one way or another, will be a little rushed or lagging every day up to 40 seconds (this is the norm, for any mechanical clock). Hence it follows that once a week, the clock will need to be let down a little so that you can be punctual.
• Also to the minuses I will also refer to the fact that mechanical watches are more prone to shocks. It is quite easy to explain this. The mechanical watch has many small details that should be all in its place. If at least one piece of detail goes away, the clock will stop walking. You have nothing to be afraid of, if you are sure that you will not drop the clock on the concrete floor, fight against metal and concrete corners, etc. (Everything happens in life, different jobs and hobbies).

Well, it's time for the quartz watch, we'll also begin with the strengths of this kind of mechanism:

• Absolute accuracy is the strongest side of a quartz watch. Virtually never quartz watches run ahead and do not lag behind. This is because in such a watch there is a crystal of quartz, which provides this accuracy.
• The undoubted advantage is that you can take your watch off for a day off, a vacation or just do not put on a watch on a typical day. The clock will go on and wait until you decide to put them on again. No time summaries are required.
• More shock-resistant. The mechanism is quite simple, it consists of an electronic board, a coil, quartz and other parts. In these mechanisms there are much fewer details than in mechanical ones, hence it follows that they are not so demanding in the operation process.

Minuses:

• I can only name one minus - it's a replacement battery. How unpleasant it is to put on a watch and realize that they do not walk. Spending time on a trip to the workshop, giving away the hours and tediously waiting for when they will be returned.

For information I can say, the most popular watches in Russia - "Commander's" - have always been mechanical.

What else makes the watch different?

The second question that needs to be answered (for whom this is number one) is the issue of choosing a manufacturer. Probably, the most famous notion of "Swiss watches", it is already on everyone's lips.

What is really hiding under the term "producer"? To date, there are over 200 watch brands that are proud of their history from the 19th century, each brand has its own unforgettable history. In practice, after people began to automate production, all the glorious history of the brand has sunk into oblivion. Why am I saying this? If before the watchmaker depended on the quality of the watch, on their exclusive mechanisms, now in most cases the mechanisms of the companies Unitas, ETA, Ronda, Isa, Miyota, etc. put in hours.

Most brands do not make their own mechanisms, but buy them in bulk from the manufacturers of mechanisms. Exceptions are elite brands, the cost of which is determined by hundreds of thousands of rubles, they produce their own mechanisms. In other cases, it is not worthwhile to emphasize the notion of "Swiss watches". Japanese watches are not worse, they are just as reliable.

The only thing that now determines the brand is the status of the owner. Otherwise it's a matter of taste, if you liked the design of the watch, do not focus on the manufacturer (unless, of course, this is not a fake).