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If you're settling for Quartz, why not split the difference and get a good Atomic Time watch for under $500 like a Citizen? https://www.citizenwatch.com/us/en/

• al_borland 2y ago
  I looked at Citizen briefly during my search. I don’t think they have anything that solves the non-standard time zone problem. At $500, it’s moving into a market segment where I’m going to care if something happens to it. I want to be carefree on vacation. In this particular case, the Casio is unapologetically quartz. I don’t think I’m settling here, and it’s not a cheap watch pretending to be a more expensive watch. It’s a cheap beater watch that also happens to have a world time function. With an analog watch, I’d feel like I was settling for quartz… unless it’s a Spring Drive or F.P. Journe. At home I have some nice automatics that I general wear. For these, I prefer a very simple aesthetic, a no-date dial is ideal. Citizen tends to have very busy designs.
• joshlemer 2y ago
  Are these watches actually atomic clocks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_clock) or are they "atomic" in some other sense?
  • al_borland 2y ago
    They receive a signal from an atomic clock on a regular basis to sync up and avoid drift. Between those signal, they use a quartz movement to keep time.