Okay, so, you have decided you want to buy a watch. Perhaps it's a gift for your son for graduation, or your wife for her birthday. Or, maybe it is a gift for you! Either way, you start looking for the perfect watch at the lowest price. Naturally, you end up at Mr Watch, right??
While cost, material, brand and other factors may come into play when you are making your decision what to buy, consider this: the watch movement. By movement we are referring to how the watch is powered to keep time.
A Quartz Movement means the watch is powered by a battery. Pretty simple, huh? A majority of our watches are quartz.
An Automatic Movement is where the watch is powered by the movement of your wrist. The watch does not have a battery, but the "insides" continue to work and the watch keeps time as the watch is wound. And, the watch is wound by just being on your arm that (presumably) moves throughout the day! But, don't worry - these watches will keep going up to 72 hours even after you take it off. (After that 72 hours you will need to manually wind it to start it up again.)
A Mechanical Movement is powered by the steady release of energy from gears that do need to be periodically wound. So, this watch will not keep going just by the movement of your wrist. Every couple of days or so you will need to manually wind these watches.
Those are some of the most commonly used movements in watches. Hopefully we have helped you in deciding what to get! However, as always, if you have any questions or comments on this we welcome the feedback.
Happy Shopping!!
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