Unless you cock up the mechanical part. I have recently bought a bunch of cheap wall clocks for the house, thinking you cannot mess up a quartz resonator, right? Turns out, you can by improperly sizing electrical vs. mechanical counterparts. So one of the clocks is late by about 5 minutes per month, and the other one randomly stops, but only when hung on the wall. Works like clockwork for the past 4 months or so since I dumped it in the recycling pile. I guess, the impulses keep coming as you would expect them, just not all of them end up moving the hands.

The first quartz watch wasn't unveiled until 1969.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_clock

A high accuracy quartz watch is accurate to 10 seconds per year.

https://www.watchtime.com/featured/high-accuracy-quartz-guid...

However, railroad standard was 4 seconds daily. That means that if a high accuracy quartz watch is never checked it may fail the standard within a year. However, a less accurate railroad chronometer will always be checked because it is less accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_chronometer

They've found a "clever" way to put a pocket watch into a relatively cheap machined bronze case to go on your wrist (hello huge watch) and sell it for over 5x the market value of said movements.

Yuck.

Most posts on here are ads, this one was 90% informative and I enjoyed the read and pictures that went with it, some things that the wiki article is missing.

Either way, I found it a good read.

That's a pretty crazy upcharge, since the base watches themselves seem readily available in very nice condition for $500-1000 - and even down to about $200 for "working, but looks a bit rough"