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Quartz works so well for any complication beyond the basic day or moon phase. Take your watch off for a week? No problem, there’s no need to reset it. But arguably more important is the price, the cost to service a chronograph outstrips the cost of a nice micro brand mecha quartz chrono. Quartz allows for weird albeit useful complications at a reasonable price, look at G Shock with a compass, thermometer and a barometer or the Seiko Age of Discovery or the Citizen Cosmosign.

Want a grand complication? There are quartz ones like the Campanola that are attainable, if you want a mechanical one I don’t even want to think how much it runs.

I was looking at a watch for sale and the specs say the movement has a 42 hour power reserve, in the ad the seller is saying it has a power reserve of about a day, but the watch has been serviced recently. I’ve asked for time grapher data, but haven’t received it yet. Why might this be the case? Is this a dealbreaker, it’s a manual three hander so setting the time isn’t an issue.

For people who actually need a tool watch these three are the ones you actually see in use. They are all reasonably priced and reliable, they actually get used as opposed to the number of 20-30 year old immaculate Rolex watches that you see.

To me a tool watch is durable, readable and inexpensive, Casio, Citizen and Timex offer all three.