As I know most people in these forums are all about mechanical watches, I'm going to offer some thoughts and perspectives on quartz ownership.
Your watch might be showing "dying battery" signs.
First, depending on the movements, most quartz watches will run about 30-48 months on a battery charge. Digital quartz can run quite a bit longer and there are all kinds of other variables including chronograph or other functions will which will shorten the "run" time. So, let's say, your new (to you) quartz Aquaracer was actually built in mid 2012. So under those circumstances, its battery today, is already 3 years old. (And yes, it's normal for watches to sit in those jewelry stores and tick away waiting for a new owner, for some time. And you can also imagine how a "new" watch, which sat in a display case for a couple of "Christmases" ends up going to a grey market outfit, where it might sit another 6-9 months before it goes off to a new owner. Meanwhile all it does is quietly tick away.
So when you get that watch, new owner; you might have it for happily ticking for you for two months to two years, but you won't get a full charge out of that original battery, that's for sure.
You see this "odd timekeeping behavior" from quartz watches throughout the various forums. A lot of the mechanical experts are quick to say, "send it back," "I wouldn't tolerate that," "bad Swiss/Japanese, etc. quality." In some ways, if you bought grey market, you could almost be guaranteed to need a battery change in the not too distant future for the above reasons.
I'd tell anyone with a funky acting quartz watch, to go to a decent aftermarket watch store/guy and have them take a look at it. Yes, the first place to start might be with a dealer, but you might get the "off to our one and only watch watch repair center for six weeks" line and I wouldn't go for that. Any good watch repair guy should get in there and swap out a battery for under $20-$25. Likely cheaper than that. You probably should avoid the mall but there are very likely some good ones out there (I just have no idea where they are.)
Yes, it was pointed out that a sharp impact can hurt a quartz movement, as can little micro electrical and static shocks. And this all presumes that every new battery that goes in your watch hasn't already sat for a couple of years in a warm warehouse somewhere . . .
So, there's quite a bit to powering a quality quartz movement.
Al of Archer Watches has a great write up on "what goes on inside a quality quartz watch." Worth reading and he's been a great resource on these forums.
https://omegaforums.net/threads/quartz-watches-some-information-some-may-find-interesting.5475/
