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I've only had 1 solar quartz watch so far, didn't have to do anything with it in the past 8 years, but now I'm looking at Seastar 1000 watches, I'm leaning towards quartz but many people are saying automatic watches are the better ones.

But my main question is, is it really that much more expensive to service an automatic watch? I'm reading all kinds of stuff, some people say for quartz its just a 20 dollars battery change, but then some of them say that you need to send even the quartz ones to the official Tissot service and have them do the battery change which is like 150 dollars.

Model: Tissot Seastar 1000 45.5mm Quartz chronograph
T120.417.11.041.01

I'm kinda new to watches, didn't have a chronograph watch before and to me it looks weird that the bigger second hand isn't moving, my wife and one of my friends I showed it to was immedatily asking if my watch is not on as they noticed it not moving (they are obviously not into watches either).

So my question is how bad is it for the watch if I just use the chrono function for a few hours when I wear it? I usually just wear it 1-3 times a week for a 4-6 hours, other than that I'd turn it off, wouldn't run it all the time, just when I'm wearing it.

After a few Google searches there are mixed opinions about this, and for some models they say it's ok for some it's not, but haven't found any post that is about my watch.

Does it actually damage the watch or I'll just have to change the battery more often?
Although now that I'm thinking about it if someone were to use the watch everyday and use the chrono function to measure time for different kind of activities, diving whatever then it would result in the same usage as mine?! Just for different purposes.

Sorry to sound so dumb.

Model: Tissot Seastar 1000 45.5mm Quartz chronograph
T120.417.11.041.01

I'm kinda new to watches, didn't have a chronograph watch before and to me it looks weird that the bigger second hand isn't moving, my wife and one of my friends I showed it to was immedatily asking if my watch is not on as they noticed it not moving (they are obviously not into watches either).

So my question is how bad is it for the watch if I just use the chrono function for a few hours when I wear it? I usually just wear it 1-3 times a week for a 4-6 hours, other than that I'd turn it off, wouldn't run it all the time, just when I'm wearing it.

After a few Google searches there are mixed opinions about this, and for some models they say it's ok for some it's not, but haven't found any post that is about my watch.

Does it actually damage the watch or I'll just have to change the battery more often?
Although now that I'm thinking about it if someone were to use the watch everyday and use the chrono function to measure time for different kind of activities, diving whatever then it would result in the same usage as mine?! Just for different purposes.

Sorry to sound so dumb.