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Originally Posted by Lady Jane
When you spend thousands for a time piece, you kind of wonder where the money is actually going...
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When you spend thousands on a quartz watch, it's probably not gonna have any of the quartz movements listed in your link.
Movements like that (say like a GS 9F series, found in GS watches in the 2k-4k range) usually can only be bought through the official channels, not generic wholesalers.
But indeed, there are a whole bunch of cheap quartz movements that are more of the throwaway type. Only battery replacement is done, everything else is replace.
But there are also a whole lot of OEM seiko, myota and maybe sellita movements (and a lot of chinese ones) that also hardly justify a service.
A seiko 6R movement can already be had at around ~€200, and that isn't even the bottom tier movement line (7s26 for instance can be found for €80)
So movements like these also already are of the throwaway type.
That said, paying thousands for a quartz watch...watches are almost never a sensible investment, but those certainly arent, unless you have a very special limited model maybe. (I'm talking new here, vintage is another world....)