A quartz Submariner???

[Reu]

Originally Posted by Billywiz

No...Like not eating meat...driving an electric car I know it makes sence (no fun though is it :))

[charles22]

I have many quartz watches (new and vintage Seiko) and like them a lot. They are cheap, accurate, everyday watches. Nothing wrong with that at all.

But they're not a Rolex. I bought my Rolex because it's mechanical, because of all of the quality engineering that's inside it. I bought into the Sub legend.

No way would I buy a quartz Rolex - wouldn't buy any quartz over a few hundred £s - and you can bet your life that any Rolex quartz would be in the thousands (as everything Rolex always is!).

Same reason I won't buy a Seamaster quartz. It doesn't compute!

[JbirdZA]

How to destroy brand value 101:

Take a product with a fanatical following of enthusiasts and with the means to afford said product, and dilute it with innovations that almost wrecked the company only a few decades back.

Drop the price by 50% to make it even less exclusive!

Watch with a tear rolling down your eye as the brand you carefully built over 50 years and engineered with infinite care, manufacturing capability and millions of dollars of R&D devalues in front of you to join the unwashed masses of the watch fraternity.

[turtlehead69]

I had a Seamaster quartz. It slowly destroyed my soul over time...

[rmfnla]

Originally Posted by jshepard

It would sell, probably not if its the same price as mechanic. Look at the omega seamaster, the quartz is cheaper than the automatic. On the other hand, I have a number of coworkers that think a way to tell a Rolex is real is to make sure the second hand moves smoothly. So I don't know how people would react to the ticking second hand of a quartz Rolex. Most people don't even know Rolex made a quartz watch before.

Same with the Constellation...