A good timepiece is like a piece of art. You can paint a picture and hang it on your wall for free. Or you can buy a piece by an established artist what has some depth and meaning to it. Same thing goes for watches.
If all you need is to tell the time, a $20 watch is fine. Sometimes they're even better. If you smash them, it's not a big deal.
Generally speaking though, the more expensive watches are automatic watches. They use a mechanical mechanism inside to keep time. If you don't wear the watch for a long time, the energy transfered to the watch by the movement of your wrist dissipates, and you will have to "wind" the watch.
The other kind of high end timepiece is mechanical/manual watches. These you can only wind by twisting the crown of the watch.
20$ watches run on a quartz crystal and battery.
Watches are a hobby for some people. Like any other hobby, you can spend thousands of dollars on them. Some buy for status, or pleasure, or just because it's nice to know you have a quality timepiece that will last forever basically that you can hand down to your kids later in life. If you're a person that spends $1,500 on a suit, $400 on shoes, may as well have a nice watch to go with that as well.
Last edited by worth; 02-07-2011 at 07:21 PM.
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