Thursday, January 1, 2009

Watches Buying Guide-Determine What Type of Watch You Want

Whether you require a wristwatch or pocket watch, you'll firstly have to decide if you want a battery-powered quartz watch or a mechanical watch that requires winding.

Choose your quartz watch

Quartz watches are the most common type of watches, offering both stability and accuracy. A small piece of quartz oscillates at over 32,000 vibrations per second. This ensures accurate timekeeping and explains why quartz watches only lose around 10 seconds of time each month. In addition, quartz watches do not require winding and you'll only need to replace the battery once every couple of years. Quartz watch faces come in various styles including analogue, digital, and anidigi.
· Analogue quartz watches: Analogue watch faces have either numbers, Roman numerals, or tick marks to indicate time intervals.
· Digital quartz watches: Digital watch faces provide an exact readout of the time in hours and minutes. Often, digital watches will have extra features such as depth sensors, Global Positioning System (GPS), altimeters, phone books, calculators, and compasses.
· Anidigi quartz watches: Anidigi watch faces include a combination of the numeric elements of an analogue watch face as well as a digital display of the time.

Get ready to wind mechanical watches

Mechanical watches boast traditional craftsmanship and will usually be a little more expensive than quartz watches due to the skill and cost of labour required to build a valuable and complex timepiece. They depend on a spring (the "mainspring") to provide energy to an oscillator (often a wheel called a "balance wheel") as it unwinds. Because the wheel oscillates at around 28,000 vibrations each hour, your watch can lose several minutes in any given month. You'll find two types of mechanical watches:
· Automatic mechanical watches: Automatic mechanical watches use a rotor swing that responds to motion, winding the mainspring running the watch. Often, automatic mechanical watches come with a transparent or partially-transparent display so you can see the rotor in action. If you wear an automatic mechanical watch for more than 12 hours each day, your motion will keep the watch mechanism running. However, you'll need to wind your watch if you don't wear it for a few days.
· Manual mechanical watches: Manual mechanical watches, also called wind watches, require daily winding to tighten the spring.

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