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Old 26th Dec 2011, 12:28
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peterh337
 
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Except you aren't getting the best of both worlds because it isn't a mechanical watch...
Objectively, what is good about a mechanical (auto winding) watch?

I used to have the Traser auto watch, which was excellent, but I cannot see the point in avoiding battery powered watches. Even the most expensive (e.g. £3000 IWC) ones are sufficiently inaccurate to require irritating resetting every week or few, and how many of us are stuck on an island for years at a time? The batteries seem to last a few years.

There is also a poor choice of automatic watches with a stopwatch function - well there seems to be below the "IWC" kind of price level anyway. Traser use the generic movements (e.g. Ronda) used by so many makers of Swiss "lifestyle" watches and their stopwatch (which I now have) is a quartz battery powered one. I am not suprised by this because a stopwatch, if used a lot, draws a lot of power out of the spring. I think the lifestyle watches get away with it because their owners rarely use the stopwatch
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