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Returning to the original post; I think the vast majority of people on here do prefer mechanical watches. Personally, I have no issue with quartz or their finite tick, which seems to really bother some. As I've said before, a watch is about more than the power source to me. A mechanical watch is ace, but so is the dependable, accurate timing of a good quality quartz.
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If you had £200 to spend, i guess the quartz would offer better quality, probably even swiss made (Rotary Elite for example)

Or would you rather an Alpha or Orient Auto ?

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magicman wrote: Sun Jun 14, 2020 11:05 am If you had £200 to spend, i guess the quartz would offer better quality, probably even swiss made (Rotary Elite for example)

Or would you rather an Alpha or Orient Auto ?

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And keeping on topic, I just love the engineering in a mechanical watch. Everything has it's place though. I need to know the time to the exact second in my job so that means I wear digital quartz watches at work (very few analogues are legible enough). Mechanical at home mostly.
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I do wonder why more case backs are not of the exhibition type. I know when on wrist it is not viewable and who else other than the wearer even knows, but i for one would like to view the innards of this little wonder on my wrist.

I'm sure this has cost implications but maybe watches should be offered with the option at extra cost.

presumably you could request this from CW. Say on a C60 would you be able to put a C60 exhibition case back on a non exhibition case C60 model.
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Not 100% sure on this but on dive watches I think it’s the cost of achieving WR rating, if wrong would someone please correct me :D
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kiter65 wrote: Sun Jun 14, 2020 12:30 pm Not 100% sure on this but on dive watches I think it’s the cost of achieving WR rating, if wrong would someone please correct me :D
I've heard this said before but I'm not sure I buy into it. Planet Ocean has an exhibition caseback with 600m resistance. C60 Elite 1000 has an exhibition caseback.
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Yes i cannot see this as valid as some come with the exhibition case. What do others think of these casebacks, is this something others would like generally.
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I love watching even the most basic (‘workhorse?’) movements. And i’m Blown away by the brilliance of many top range in-house, hand decorated movements too. What I’m most fascinated by are those animations of movements being taken apart and reassembled that you get on YouTube. But that might be my point - I can see far more enjoying a YouTube clip than I could of a movement that I wear next to my wrist.

When I was new to the forum I was keen to open the caseback of my C11 to see what the movement looked like. A really kind forumite sent me an old Russian watch with an exhibition caseback. It’s still in my watch box and I can fire it up and marvel.

I’m never going to own a top end watch with a beautiful movement so I’m fine without an exhibition caseback.
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To me it depends to some extent on the movement. I’m all in favour of an exhibition back if the movement is worth seeing: Côtes de Genève and Perlage; beautiful decorated rotor in some tasteful shape; elegant Chatons &c.

I’m not so keen if the movement is a bit of a Plain Jane; might as well stick a solid back on it. Curiously, I think CW do less well these days with the standard Sellita movements than they used to. Compare the modern fare with this SW200-1 from 2009...

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I would certainly agree some movements are beautiful and some less so, but personally i would prefer to see it no matter a swan or an ugly duckling. i suppose you get what you pay for.
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