There are three types of watch movements : Quartz Watches, Manual Wind Watches , and Automatic Watches(Self-Winding ) .Therefore it is vital to know which one is of your preference.

QUARTZ WATCHES:

There are three types of Quartz watches. They are the regular quartz , auto-quartz, and solar. The regular quartz runs with batteries. This particular kind of watch requires very little maintenance , usually a battery replacement every other year. The second type of quartz movement is a mixture of quartz and self-winding watch. In other words the part of the mechanism that is automatic charges a small generator inside the mechanism. The most known companies that make these models are Seiko, Tissot , and Omega and they are called “Kinetic “, “Autoquartz “, and “Omegamatic” respectively. The Solar watches as the name implies are charged with the energy of the Sun . They contain cells located on the watches’ faces that charge the generator of the watch. The “Eco- Drive” is the most well-known model produced by Citizen .

MANUAL WIND WATCHES:

These watches need to be wound once a day or once every two days to run. After the watch is wound then it will keep a power reserve so that It will have charge until next winding. The collectors of timepieces think of these watches as highly desirable. It could be because it can be said that it is the old way of reading time, hence they were the first type of movements. Manual Winding Watches are still being made by the Top Swiss Brands such as Jaeger-Lecoultre and Franck Muller and could cost more than $500,000 when they have complications. A few exquisite models can reserve up to 18 days of power and will usually have a power reserve indicator.

AUTOMATIC WATCHES:

These watches do not need to be wound , thus they are also called self-winding watches. The timepiece winds itself automatically with the movement of the wrist. The movement of the arm makes the rotor, a metal weight attached to a winding mechanism, to rotate back and forth in a circular motion to wind the mainspring, a flat coiled spring that powers mechanical watches.

It is good to keep in mind that each of these type of watch movements have their advantages and disadvantages. For example , You might think that automatic watches are better than quartz watches because you do need to replace a battery, however one advantage of quartz watches is that they are more accurate than automatic watches. What really matters is that they all show the time , the most valuable asset in life.

Expert in the field of Fine Watches such asRolex Watches and models such as the Rolex Date is Oscar Messina, owner of Messina Jewelers