1. Again, nice Alpina. I’m with you on quartz. I’ll eventually land a second quartz chronograph, but I’m not in a rush. Pre-hobby most of my watches were chronographs and all were quartz. 2. Agree about needing an outlet. Not being a flipper, for now, I’m often waiting say a year between a birthday, Christmas, anniversary, etc. when I typically get a new watch. 3. Also agree about micro brands and smaller independent brands. With one exception that’s where my current obsessions lie. 4. I don’t have a community, a tribe but maybe one day I’ll find a group here in the Bay Area. We’ll see. Staying positive and enjoying the watches I do have. Up to eleven now and find that wearing a watch again after it briefly falls out of rotation creates sort of a mini honeymoon period.

Great video. I love Quartz. Just picked up a Citizen Ecodrive, Hamilton Ventura And have a G-shock on the way.

I have Certina, Seiko Solar and an Eco drive with Roman numerals, in addition to my first Tissot T-Race. Excellent pieces

Quartz and digital are making a revival, some high profile releases in recent years are quartz: PRX quartz, PRZ digital, and even the recent Patek Philippe quartz Aquanaut. Quartz has never been second best, it gained a bad rep needlessly but quartz is the natural progression from mechanical movements and they have a rich history. A good quartz movement is just as servisable as a good mechanical watch and objectively superior.

I used to sneer at quartz as 'inferior' to mechanical/automatic watches. However, when I realised that I really wanted to know the accurate time (to the second), I knew I had to quartz. Luckily, one of my favourite brands (a German tool watch brand) makes killer quartz watches.

My recommandation is the Sinn U50 S Hydro on a white Silicon-Strap wth the small, black clasp. What a beast with 500 bar WR. Every spec is over the top.

Bertucci solar composite ⌚👀👍