[tony20009]

Pretty much any watch will be just as good and work just as well. Seiko, Citizen, Bulova, Swatch, Hamilton, Tag...the list is almost endless. When it comes to matters of a watch working effectively and having a good degree of durability, you have buy something incredibly cheap -- be it quartz or mechanical -- before you are going to find something that won't suffice effectively as a daily wearer.

Among less expensive watches, the construction of things like the case, crystal and bracelet/strap are going to be the biggest factors affecting quality. Some inexpensive watches will have very flimsy bracelets/straps and those bracelets/straps may be affixed to the case/each other with flimsy pins that will be prone to bend/snap out, others will have plastic "crystals" or cases, or cases that have coatings that scratch off easily. Such watches will, however, also have quartz movements and in that sense, they will perform as well as a quartz watch costing thousands of dollars.

Once you get past the $300 mark, however, it's rare to find such poorly crafted watches, and you certainly won't find such things from major brands. Just avoid things from outfits like Stauer or Daniel Steiger and you can just pick what you like. Even some stuff from those two makers aren't truly poor quality so much as they are just priced higher than they should be. One could say Rolex or any number of other brands are priced higher than they need be also, but the thing is that there is none of those makers' offerings will disappoint as goes construction quality and that not really so with some of what those two other brands offer.

All the best.