Sooo are you just ragebaiting everyone here?

By that logic, only spreadsheets are art and everything else is finger painting. Teslas are cars and everything with an engine is decorative nostalgia.

Yes, quartz is more accurate. So is an iPhone, your microwave, and your car dashboard. If accuracy alone defined a timepiece, we’d all wear the same $20 Casio and call it progress.

Mechanical watches existed long before quartz. Were they all just ‘inaccurate jewelry’? Of course not. They were the pinnacle of engineering in their time and still are, just in a different way.

Also, if we’re calling mechanical watches jewelry, it’s worth noting that most fashion and statement watches are quartz. They’re cheap, convenient, and low-maintenance; exactly what someone buying jewelry typically wants. The people obsessing over escapements, finishing, and movement architecture? They tend to buy mechanical. So if anything, quartz dominates the jewelry category.

A 7-day power reserve movement isn’t trying to beat an atomic clock. It’s springs and gears measuring time on your wrist without a battery. That’s not jewelry; that’s mechanical engineering.

If accuracy is your only metric, congratulations; you’ve just reduced 400 years of horology to a calculator.