The Difference Between a Mechanical Watch and a Quartz Dress Watch

Generally, there will be text at the bottom of the dial or quartz dress watch. The text at the bottom of the dial or quartz dress watch can be observed. If it is engraved with AUTOMATIC, it will generally be an automatic mechanical watch, and if it is engraved with QUARTZ, it will be a quartz dress watch. What is the mechanical watch and what is its structure? We will introduce it in detail.

Ⅰ. Mechanical watch

Mechanical watches can generally be divided into the following two types: manual winding and automatic winding.

The power source of these two machines is the spring in the movement. The gear is driven, pushing the dial. Only the power source is different. The power source of the mechanical watch with manual winding is the hand. The thickness of the movement is thinner than that of the general self-winding watch, and the weight of the watch is relatively light.

Spring is a part that provides energy for a watch, which is wound in a box. The square milling groove on the bar shaft is used to tighten the spring. The square groove of the bar shaft is driven by the upper bar mechanism. As precision mechanical timing instruments and decorative supplies, mechanical watches must be practical and decorative at the same time. The watch with excellent quality has the advantages of accurate travel time, convenient use, fine technology, and a beautiful appearance. As long as the watch is wound, it can travel continuously for more than 36 hours, which is durable. Some watches are also waterproof, shockproof, and antimagnetic.

It is best to recycle the mechanical watch to the after-sales service every year to check whether it is improperly used or whether the water is into it. If the local climate is humid and hot, with the accumulation of sweat, rain, and dirty air for many years, it will cause chronic erosion to the machinery, and the frequency and degree of damage will be much higher. Therefore, regular inspection is very important. Then it needs to be thoroughly cleaned and maintained every three years.

Ⅱ. The difference between a mechanical watch and quartz dress watch

The mechanical watch can be used for a long time through regular maintenance of oil washing. As for quartz dress watches, their second hand, minute hand, and hour hand of a watch are operated by quartz vibration. In this process, the battery is used as power. So when the battery is dead, the quartz dress watch will stop working. An ordinary battery usually lasts about 2 years.

However, the travel time of the quartz dress watch is very accurate. The error of travel time in a day is between -0.5 and +0.5 seconds, and the price is lower than a mechanical watch. Because of this, after the advent of the quartz dress watch, it soon occupied a large market share of the watch market.

Because the quality of the watch is different and the movement inside the watch is easily affected by gravity, the error of the mechanical watch is larger than that of the quartz dress watch. Usually, the error of a mechanical watch is calculated in seconds per day.