• el_bhm@lemm.ee
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    Not entirely true. Quartz mechanisms can differ in precision.

    They also can have solar charging, atomic clock sync, bluethooth

    But mostly true for cheap Casio watches and cheaper lines of G-Shock. They keep the time to a very similar precision.

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      Barring actual manufacturing defects, the cheapest quartz crystal timing circuit on the market will be far more accurate than the very best Swiss watch movement, by orders of magnitude. A mechanical watch depends on a spring whose behavior is highly environmentally dependent - it will gain or lose multiple seconds per day, being affected by the orientation, vibration and temperature changes it experiences. A quartz watch will drift a few seconds per month.