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I’m contemplating applying for an executive MHA, I have three years of experience in hospital administration as an individual contributor and a further half decade of healthcare corporate/investment banking. I’m located in the Carolinas, so I feel that UNC offers the better network, but UAB is a big name. If anybody has any knowledge of either program, I would appreciate it since there’s relatively little information available online. Also, are there any other executive that are worth applying to?

Almost any non-defective, non-magnetized automatic movement is going to be accurate enough “out of the box” for almost everyone. Entry level Miyota and Seiko moments are -20/+40 from the factory and if they’re regulated can be dialed in substantially tighter. Even at +40 you can hack your watch every few days and it won’t matter. For most people a watch merely needs to be reasonably accurate and plus or minus a few minutes over the course of a week has minimal impact. For the average white collar worker outlook is letting you know when the next meeting is and if you get to the conference room or hop on Teams a few minutes early no one cares.

The initial purpose of the chronometer was for celestial navigation. Accuracy mattered for railroads as well, but the railroads moved on as signaling and radio became more sophisticated and how many people here are blue water sailors using celestial navigation as a back up, and if that is the case they’d be far better off with a HAQ.

The period from 1945 through the late 1970s saw an incredible amount of innovation, so many legendary models come out of this time. It would be tough to list them all, but here’s a few: Blancpain Fifty Fathom; Rolex Sub, Date-Just, Day-Date, GMT Master, Explorer and Daytona; Omega Seamaster and Speedmaster; AP Royal Oak; JLC Memovox; Patek Nautilus; Grand Seiko and Citizen Parawater.

The watch market was actually vibrant and offered a lot of decent quality options at relatively modest prices. There were skin divers, chronos, sports watches, jump hours, and dress watches. Tiny brands could do innovative things and because the ebauche manufacturers hadn’t all been hovered up by ETA there was competition, but also enough volume that repairs were easier. Accuracy was improving and Citizen and Seiko were making high quality watches that could compete with the Swiss. Beyond Switzerland, France with Yema and Mortima were also making interesting watches.

Finally the aesthetics and willingness to innovate really define the era. Compare a 1940s Mido Multifort from the late 1940s to a 1970s LIP Bachmakoff Jump Hour and you can see how much change was afoot. Not to mention the transition from lots of handwind movements to bumper to automatics. The amount of innovation and cool design during this roughly thirty year era remains unmatched.

When I hear “this watch is a spec monster” I tend to get worried. Selling on specs is something designed to appeal to the dilettante, the person with just enough knowledge to be dangerous. Historically specs were associated with quality, but even back in the golden age of watches manufacturers started playing games with how many jewels a watch had, adding extras that didn’t do anything beyond allow them to say that it was a “31 jewel watch”. When spec monsters compete on price and specs corners are getting cut somewhere and it’s usually not margin for the seller.

Watches are more than specs, quality control doesn’t show up in specs, nor does customer service. Specs can tell you a movements power reserve, or service interval, but not whether the movement is actually durable. Design doesn’t show up there, nor does craftsmanship. Ultimately a watch is more than just a spec sheet and many of the things that elevate a piece can only be described qualitatively.

Hello, I’m completely and totally new to this space, and an utter novice. I want to learn about home automation and integration, but haven’t even the foggiest clue where to start. Any tips or pointers would be very much appreciated.

Seemingly every other post in some watch subreddits is about a “grail watch”. 99% of the times it’s just a regular watch, maybe it’s expensive, but it’s almost never particularly difficult to find not to save for. If you can go on Chrono24 or eBay and it’s there with any degree of frequency it’s not a grail, unless you’re saving for a decade plus.

The whole thing about a grail is there’s a quest for it, and a $800 watch that’s frequently on offer isn’t it. If you have to scour antique shops and jewelry shops to find it and it takes years to hunt it down, it’s a grail. But if it’s just a purchase with no quest behind it, it’s definitionally not a grail.

There has yet to be a single time that I’ve been positively impressed by a state of the collection post. There’s basically three types: the flexer, the newbie and the forgettable.

The flexer always posts a box showing tens or maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of watches. You are rich and yet desperate to impress random internet strangers. Sad.

The newbie has been collecting for six months and has fifteen low end watches. They’ve gone and spent a thousand or more dollars on junk with no rhyme or reason.

Finally there’s the forgettable, a collection studded with Reddit favorites. Maybe it’s a PRX, an Orient Bambino and a G Shock, maybe there’s a Seiko Prospex. I can’t remember because it’s so dull.

The grand irony is I appreciate reviews, but just a photo of your watches in a box screams insecurity and a need for external validation.

Prior to the quartz revolution or crisis depending on how you look at it, most smaller brands were heavily reliant on ebauche movements. I own two 1950s vintage watches one with an ETA automatic, the other a manual Minerva. The watches have their own distinctive appearance, but the beating heart of it was invariably an ebauche movement. A lot of cool and innovative designs come out of the post-War period and most were from manufacturers who weren’t doing movements in house.

Today micro brands are doing essentially what the low and mid tier Swiss brands did, design an attractive dial, case and hands and marry it to an existing movement. There’s so much criticism about not doing things in house, but it’s never been that way. The ebauche movements tend to be good, even the NH35 is a solid, albeit boring choice.

Quartz works so well for any complication beyond the basic day or moon phase. Take your watch off for a week? No problem, there’s no need to reset it. But arguably more important is the price, the cost to service a chronograph outstrips the cost of a nice micro brand mecha quartz chrono. Quartz allows for weird albeit useful complications at a reasonable price, look at G Shock with a compass, thermometer and a barometer or the Seiko Age of Discovery or the Citizen Cosmosign.

Want a grand complication? There are quartz ones like the Campanola that are attainable, if you want a mechanical one I don’t even want to think how much it runs.

I was looking at a watch for sale and the specs say the movement has a 42 hour power reserve, in the ad the seller is saying it has a power reserve of about a day, but the watch has been serviced recently. I’ve asked for time grapher data, but haven’t received it yet. Why might this be the case? Is this a dealbreaker, it’s a manual three hander so setting the time isn’t an issue.

For people who actually need a tool watch these three are the ones you actually see in use. They are all reasonably priced and reliable, they actually get used as opposed to the number of 20-30 year old immaculate Rolex watches that you see.

To me a tool watch is durable, readable and inexpensive, Casio, Citizen and Timex offer all three.