Been thinking about getting a new watch and have been browsing around the websites a bit. All the famous expensive Swiss watch makers make almost exclusively mechanical watches which you either have to wind up or wind themselves up automatically by means of a semicircular rotor. So, they must be pretty accurate then? Erm....nope. Tissot (which are perhaps not quite in the premier league of Swiss watches claim their mechanical watches are accurate to +40/-10 seconds per day. Oris, which defintely are in the top tier are only slightly better at +30/-5 seconds per day. Most of the others are similar. Only Breitling can claim +5/-5 seconds per day and that's only on their "chronometer" certified top of the range watches (in order to be called a "chronometer" a timepiece must pass some strict accuracy tests at various temperatures, pressures and other conditions). So, you pays your £1000 or more (can be MUCH more) and you get a watch you'll have to set on average once a week, by which time it might already be 3-4 minutes slow :eek: . By comparison even the cheapest quartz watches will lose or gain maybe a minute each [i]year[/i]. Quite apart from not really being able to justify spending so much money on a watch the fact that they are anything but accurate has put me right off them for good. Give me a quartz watch any day and let the Rolex owners miss their train :) Michael.