By the way, the first of these is not a quartz watch. The f300 has no quartz crystal, it uses a tuning fork vibrating at 300Hz instead...
It's confusing, because the Swiss did come up with an electric watch before quartz watches, using the tuning fork. But I think the Swiss and Seiko were developing quartz watches at the same time, but Seiko introduced the Astron in 1969 right before the Swiss companies managed it in early 1970 (including Omega electroquartz). But Seiko had a portable quartz clock as backup timer in the 1964 Olympics, before the Astron wristwatch came out.
As an aside, I heard a while ago that Omega might have a hybrid quartz/mechanical ala Spring Drive in the works. Which, technically is a mechanical movement referenced and regulated by quartz? Correct me if I am mistaken.
My statement is just repeating what @Archer has stated a few times already, and he had a good argument for why he made that claim. I'd prefer to still think of it the other way around, but I can't get what he said out of my head. Regardless, I don't have a problem with the Spring Drive and think it's cool.
Of course. Now the year is 2022 we've spent 40 years together. But I always say this is the last watch I'd want to take to sea.
