• Godort@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Rolex has spent the last 50 years trying to rebrand itself as a luxury watch brand but they started out as sport watches. Essentially what this Casio watch is.

    The people that designed Rolex watches wanted them to be basically indestructible. They’re wildly over-engineered. They have shockmounts so you can drop them without breaking the balance staff and most are waterproof.

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      11 months ago

      That’s because Swiss precision is meaningless when a $1 chip can keep time better than a $6k mechanical watch. The only way they can survive is by selling the luxury angle.

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        11 months ago

        I bought a mechanical watch cause I like how the second hand moves continuously instead of “ticking” and it doesn’t need a battery.
        But yeah, if you want a watch that’s like the early Rolex’s today, buy a Seiko.

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          11 months ago

          Oh trust me, I understand. I own mechanical watches because there is a definite romantic appeal to them.

          However, I have had more than one seiko automatic die from vibration while riding motorcycles. Even high end watches like Rolexes can have -4/+8 seconds per day timekeeping error and be within “normal” tolerances.

          Meanwhile, a cheap digital quartz watch will typically be accurate to within a few seconds a month, even before we consider that many of them can sync to atomic clocks. They’re also pretty much indestructible.