The Ultimate Guide to High Accuracy Quartz Watches
Walk into any horological meetup with a quartz watch on and you?re likely to get the door slammed in your face. I kid, I kid ? but only partly. Ever since the mechanical watch industry made its recovery in the face of a specific doom brought on by Japanese watchmakers, many so-called watch enthusiasts (snobs might be the more appropriate nom de guerre) have outright refused to let a battery-operated watch end up on their wrists. Is that fair" Depends ? of course anybody that calls themselves a timepiece enthusiast most likely fell in love with mechanical watches, but that doesn?t necessarily mean quartz watches should be left out in the cold. Over the past decade-plus, there have been some fascinating developments in the quartz sphere that have led to a new field of watches called HAQ (High Accuracy Quartz) that make precision the primary objective. An easy guideline to remember is that any quartz watch that boasts a plus or minus rate of ten seconds per year can be deemed HAQ. While this field is still dominated in full by our friends out of Japan, a few Swiss brands have tossed their hat into the ring and are trying to figure out the next stage in precision timekeeping. For the sake of this article, we?ll be defining HAQ as one that has an inherent regulator rather than something that relies on an outside force liken an atomic clock or GPS to maintain accuracy. Longines VHP
Longines? recent foray into HAQ ended up with the release of the Conquest V.H.P. (Very High P...
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