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Quartz movment watchs that are lust-worthy


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Omega X-33.. The current Astronaut watch. I think these are still made, but no longer available to general public.

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Tissot T-touch is also a very well-made watch with unique functions. It might be too cheap to be considered lust-worthy.. :)

The Omega is no longer available because it falls apart at a turn of the crown. I read a story about an astronaut whose watch literally fell apart and he had to fix it while on a mission. Knowing nothing about watches but having an engineering background he fixed it fine, i think even made it better that time around.

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Of cause there are lustworthy quartz watches! Here are my current wants:

Any 7A38 equiped Mill Seikos:

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But especialy the grail quartz Seiko, the Vulcan, issued only to Vulcan aircrew. Very high EMF resistance and like all 7A38s accurate to 6sec a year:

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And the SNA411a:

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Definiatly one on the way soon. Gray market ones are dirt cheap ATM.

Col.

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I have a daily beater which I pick up most days. Its Quartz.. Its Fossil :p It has been good to me and holds sentimental value as well. Yellow dial, blue subdials, H Bracelet. It even has AR coating :o

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I think there are for sure...as mentioned breitling has a few

Breitling Emergency Mission

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Also, while maybe not lust worthy this has been my daily beater for the last 11 years and has done so with flying colours

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That's like the most complicated dial in the world!! lol

What are all the numbers for?!

Similar to a Navitimer. It does aeronautical navigational computations. Speed over ground, ETA, fuel burn, time to waypoint, ect, ect. Much like a E6B circular slide rule.

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One moment Captain . . .

Col.

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To the OP:

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Grab and Go chrono. :)

I really like this watch but dont they go for around $1000.00? I first saw It In the Aprial IW Mag. I really like that vintage look. There are some quarts watches that I like but lust? Naaa I dont think so :rolleyes: Mike

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I do believe everyone needs a quartz to set the other watches to, and I think in a collection of over a dozen watches, a quartz piece is acceptable. :)

Here's mine:

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And here's my walking watch:

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But generally, I'd rather wear a mechanical rep than a quartz gen.

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I actually prefer the quartz reps on chrono watches because of the problems the A7750 has:

1. It's much more expensive than quartz.

2. It has a lot of reliability issues.

3. It can't replicate many watches' sub dial spacing, so sometimes the quartz version costs much less and is in fact much more accurate.

On non-chrono watches, I like to get the "soul' as you call it of the auto movements. It has less problems, at a decent price.

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I actually prefer the quartz reps on chrono watches because of the problems the A7750 has:

1. It's much more expensive than quartz.

2. It has a lot of reliability issues.

3. It can't replicate many watches' sub dial spacing, so sometimes the quartz version costs much less and is in fact much more accurate.

On non-chrono watches, I like to get the "soul' as you call it of the auto movements. It has less problems, at a decent price.

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