Post pics of your watches Part II

Actually Fitz it's not and is actually a better example for my side of that argument. It's almost entirely survivor bias. That example above was NOS, never used, box, price, hang tags and all, left behind in 70's jeweller's backroom by the popularity of digital watches. The majority of the other working early quartz I have were the same or similar. I've also bought a few that were duds or died soon after. Repairability? The mechanics are repairable enough alright(unless you run out of coils), a new quartz oscillator could be soldered in if that blew, but the rest of the gubbins? If it blows and you can't find a working secondhand/NOS spare it's game over. That goes for pretty much all early quartz. Yes they were extremely expensive when new and very well built for the most part and were designed to be repairable, however, spares are the problem and the technology moved on.

Omega used to service their 70's quartz, but have given up on a few models because they ran out of spares. Girard Perregaux used to service their 70's quartz until they ran out of spares and then fitted more modern movements to them, but have given that up too, because nothing currently fits or will drive the full size hands. Longines did the same with their ultraquartz, to the degree that the working one in their museum that they use in their ads for their current VHP range doesn't have an original movement, but a modern replacement. It's not just quartz. Stuff like LIP electronic spares are getting thinner on the ground. When the supply of Accutron and later tuning fork index wheels runs out it'll be game over for them too. Digital spares? Good luck. In the majority of cases just try and find a working one on ebay. Even some mechanical spares can be hard to come by. 1960's high beat movements spares can be a case of offering up prayers to the ebay gods. The guy for electric/electronic servicing electric watches uk used to service and repair a host of such movements but today will only take on one.; the ESA 9162/4

Now it would be entirely possible to remanufacture or even custom replace movements with new 'engines', but the market is too small, with too many different movement requirements for it to be close to viable.

Any time it's come up I have always advised those who want to collect in this area to budget for the watch and a spare working movement to stick in a static bag in a safe place. Something I follow myself, but something I wouldn't even consider for any of my mechanical stuff.

This is why I have two of these;

I've joked it's because I'm mad, and I am😁, but I got the one on the right, because the one on the left is a rare as unicorn poo pre production prototype and I wanted a spare movement and the one on the right happened to come with a watch for free.

It can happen with anything S, but a pain in the arse when it does. 😫😡 I knew someone who bought an IWC DaVinci, mad complications and 'mad money' at the time. He had nothing but trouble with it and in the end he lost the plot with them and they swapped it for another new one and the last time I talked with him it never gave him a moment's trouble since.

Just looking at your pic, is it the day/date part that's on the blink?