A Shopping Guide to Buy Your Next Watch

The real quality of a watch can only be seen when you wear it on your wrist and analyze its buttons by pressing them. This obviously is not available to us for a watch which is showcased in an online store. But the reason that we can't avoid an online store is because of the variety of choices that they provide us over there. You will surely be spoilt with choices while going through an online store for buying a new watch. So it is very important to know certain facts concerning the watches before you go out to buy one.

The first thing to note is that watches are classified into various categories based on the materials and the methods used for manufacturing. Basically the time pieces are classified into Quartz and Mechanical watches. A mechanical watch makes use of the mechanical parts which are used in it. Mechanical watches are further divided into two categories, automatic and manual watches. Automatic ones will be having an automatic winding of a coiled spring inside it. In the case of manual watches we have to do the winding by our hand and hence the name, manual mechanical watches.

On the other hand a quartz watch uses a quartz crystal to measure unit time for making your watch work. They are cheaper than the mechanical watches which are available in the market. Quartz needs a battery to make it work. They will need periodic battery changes to keep it running. But the advantage is that a cheap quartz watch will be more accurate than a cheap mechanical watch. Mechanical watches are heavier and needs high level of engineering to give correct time. Some of the best mechanical watches will have more than a hundred movable parts integrated into that small frame. They are some artifacts in which we can see the talent of some of the best watch engineers.

Some of the common watches which are now in trend are diamond watches, chronographs, dive watches, and those with large dials. Since they are in trend you can easily find a variety of them in the market. Anther thing to take care is the case of the watch. The cases are available in plastic, steel, and titanium. Plastic is cheap, but steel and titanium has its own advantages and disadvantages. Titanium is light weight and has more strength than steel. But steel is more lustrous and gives a good look to your watch.