Looking for a non-battery powered watch

I've been experiencing a bout of bad watch karma. I'm one of those people who has to know what time it is every single minute of the day. The watch I wear daily, which I got at a rummage sale, has withstood a fair amount of tough wear. That's why I like it. It cost me next to nothing, and I can beat it up. Yet it tells me the time. It recently stopped working, and I took it to our neighborhood jewelry store to get the battery replaced. The watch worked for several days, then stopped. I took it back. The jeweler said the battery was still fine, but the watch needed repair. While my regular watch was in the shop, I fell back on a few other watches I have. I have two vintage self-winding watches, and I love them. They're cool in that vintage-retro-granny kind of way. They are my "dressy" watches. Problem is they're delicate. One of them needs a new clasp on the watch band. It has a bad habit of sometimes looking like a rabbit. No (stop quoting Madeline). It comes off. Unexpectedly. Bad quality in a watch. The other one was my mom's. It's got one of those twist-o-flex bands, which I find uncomfortable. But I tried it. And I think I must have sweated it up too much because it had condensation inside of the glass the first day I wore it. So I put it back into the jewelry box, said a little prayer, and I hope I didn't totally ruin it. I think my dad gave it to my mom for their wedding, but they're divorced now and my mom isn't sentimental. I just hope I didn't wreck it. I hate to break things. I do love that these watches just need to be wound to work. No reliance on batteries. And I'm tellin' ya, they seem to need a whole lot less maintenance than battery-powered watches.

I am not a big jewelry or watch person, but seem to possess far too many watches. The majority are battery-powered watches. The last time I went to the jeweler, I had all the batteries of all my watches replaced, then put them all back in the jewelry box, and evidently they all stopped sometime in the distant past, because none had any juice when I needed them. My husband even has one of those Seiko Kinetic watches that charges some kind of internal battery or some such techno-miracle. I like the idea, but couldn't seem to get it to work. It would only keep time if my watch-wearing hand was in constant motion, which made me look like I had Parkinson's disease.

So here's what I'm wondering. Are there any watches available that don't cost a million dollars, that are self-winding, and resist sweat, or do all watches currently on the market require batteries? Let's disregard the kinetic ones, which so far I'm not sold on. I'd also love to one day get watches for my kids that don't have batteries. Because I'm really tired of the battery thing. Anyone, anyone?