“Seen nicer 100 dollar Timex.”
Well, not nicer in the mechanical or workmanship sense, but the Timex will most probably keep much more accurate time.
Each half year when I change my work Timex hour to accommodate daylight wasting time, I have not yet found the watch to be greater than 30 seconds off of the NIST time signal. Not bad for six months of daily use.
Mom gave me a Timex for my 10th B day. Still works great. 50 years now....takes a lick’n but keeps on tick’n. I also have a nice Seiko, 25 years old. Just as good as the Timex. When I go on vacation I get a 10 dollar throw away, they last for about one year max. ..I see Rolex as jewelry more than a time piece. Just me.
Any $10 quartz watch will keep better time than all but the most expensive mechanical watches. A well-regulated mechanical watch of sufficient quality and balance will do OK on the short term (about a month), but will pretty much always lose out in the long term. OTOH, some modern non-mechanical watches are essentially computers on your wrist. Those will not do as well in the long term as a good mechanical can.
Same here with my 10-year-old no-name Walmart $13 watch ("Japan MOVT"??). Other than an occasional new battery and the DST changes, time has never been off by more than a minute. Better than some of the cheap LCD watches.