New Delhi, Aug. 2 -- For someone who loves mechanical watches, I must say that I own quite a few quartz watches! They are the usual suspects, from Timex, Casio, Seiko, even an old Sonata and an HMT. The thing is, I have them for a reason, and that reason is that they are very cool watches!

I have never been one for anti-quartz snobbery. I'd rather celebrate the smooth movement of the seconds hand of my mechanical watches without denigrating the ticking seconds of quartz.

It's equally true that none of my mechanical watches are anywhere close to the accuracy of my quartz timepieces. Then again, while I value accuracy (I mean, why else would you wear something that tells the time?), I equally value the romance of a mechanical device that ...