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OK, so it's true. I am a movement snob after all! I have been denying myself all these years!
So, it's off to O7 for me......and then maybe that green Wenger diver.......and then maybe.....
.......a whole new world of purchasing options cool10.gif!
I'm a movement snob too... Indeed, while I don't share your love of big watches, your rules are largely my rules with the exception of no quartz.
I have a number of ETA 205.111|711|911 Autoquartz watches - from solid 14kt to cheap Swatches -- they are automatics and quartzes with highly jeweled movements. Fun as most have transparent backs.
And I have several thermocompensated ETA movements - you can adjust them yourself and end up with a watch that is accurate to 1 second a year. Again, fun.
Mechanicals are fun too -- most of mine are mechanicals and my latest buy was a NOS 1960 Tissot with a pristine 14kt case. But a good quartz can be just as interesting. Don't count them out just because most are 'throwaways' -- some aren't!
I don't know if anyone has noticed -- my icon is the first mechanical movement timed by quartz. The batteries were replaced by an automatic movement that charged a capacitor... It's the HPM from Asulab (Swatch Research). It was developed about 15 years ago... Now that's fun too! woohoo.gif (The closest I can get to having one is the Autoquartzs... I can't bring myself to pay Seiko's price for their copy, the Spring Drive.)