your read · What kind of watch person are you?
The Honest Quartz
You just want the time. Correctly. Forever.
You respect a watch that never drifts, never needs winding, and never asks you to care about it. You set it once in 2019 and it has been right every day since, which is more than you can say for most things you own.
The quartz watch is the quietest flex of all: you are not impressed by mechanisms, you are impressed by things that work.
What you'd actually buy
- A quartz watch with a dial you actually like
- A second one, identical, because the first one was right
- A battery change every five years and nothing else
- The freedom of never thinking about it