I find Seiko to be a hard brand to research, they have a bunch of regional exclusive things that you can get in other countries, then they have the spring drive watches which they're weird about for some reason. No particular reason for bringing this up, just because.
I think what me and a lot of other people who post in threads like this away from quartz watches is the stepping motor. These little stepping motors practically seem like an afterthought. Technically, as long as it has 60 steps or a ratio to it via gearing or whatnot, it doesn't affect accuracy. Come to think of it, I think most stepping motors have 240 positions, so there's probably a 4:1 gear between the motor and the face. Probably the most immediate turn off is how the second hand never seems to land right on the dot. Technically there's no benefit to it landing on the dot, but it it is so obviously meant to do so that it bugs me.
These stepping motors also tend to make sound. some make a "chock" sound, others make a "snik" sound, but if I can hear it with my shoulder relaxed an my elbow at 90 degrees, its too loud. I had a Seiko with their kinetic movement, which was even worse. Like an automatic, it uses motion to power itself, it uses it to charge a battery. This gizmo made a surprising amount of noise.
There's also a certain disingenuousness to an electronic device that it imitating a mechanical one. come on, you couldn't come up with a creative way to use electricity to rotate a pointer? No one has even bothered trying to come up with a way to make it happen smoothy*? I'd probably use a contained magnetic field and a voice coil like device to make a circular motion, kind of like a hard drive arm. It could maybe even be switched every pulse. Come to think of it, a magnetic actuator would make a heck or a retrograde pointer.
*The spring drive is more machine than man now more mechanical than quartz.