From what I've heard, Rolex watches are not known for keeping accurate time. Mostly just for bragging rights. As long as it runs, what difference does it make what the guts look like? I guess if you can afford one, you can afford to have it restored.
@Booger ... Check out this time lapse video - less than 3 minutes. While certainly not a watch rebuild .. watch for the leftover parts at the very end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVDrGsaDME
Back in the 1980s technology caught up with really high quality watches for accuracy. Nowadays I have a Garmin Fenix sports watch which is just loaded with brilliant tech and is always set to the correct time to the absolute second. I do a lot of swimming and just counting laps and calculating all the stats on the day's performance makes it worth having.
$3-5 digital walmart watch here, changed the battery in it once already and working for over 12 years. I do have a broken Seiko that I might have fixed up sometime but probably not.
I have a Casio Chronongraph and Timex Expedition that I've had both for over thirty years. Replaced the battery twice in both and they're about due for another. Neither one keeps what I call "good" time as they both gain several seconds a month. I reset them to NIST time about once a quarter or if I know I''ll be somewhere where I need an accurate time tic, like during hunting season.
Three Seiko watches. First two died after a few years and were sent in for replacement movements, about 1/2 cost of new watch. When the third one died, I said "fuckit." Got one of these: www.sportsmansguide.com/product/index/military-style-army-stainless-steel-watch?a=44553 Shitcanned the chintzy strap, use inexpensive Velcro bands instead. Keeps excellent time, easy to read and the price is right. ($27.00 at that time.) Battery lasts almost 2 years, get 'em changed by a cute Japanese lady for 8 bucks.
I've had Seiko for years, I recently sent it in for a crystal change and after a couple of weeks it was returned with a $150 charge. It is like a brand new watch, whoo hoo.
25 years ago I was working on a power plant job way far out in Northwest China installing American made equipment in a Chinese power plant and when I was finished with my project I had a couple days to kill in Beijing And during my wanderings I found a place they called the silk market. They had knock offs of everything and I bought a Rolex for me and one for my wife. You would have had to have been an expert to tell them from the real things.
$1200.00 service.....
ReplyDeleteAs I a story I once heard about a plumber's bill, "you are not paying for the work I did, but for what I know'. The same goes here.
DeleteI tell them it's for the 30 years not the 30 minutes. It could have took 3 hours and cost you the same. I am a carpenter
DeleteFrom what I've heard, Rolex watches are not known for keeping accurate time. Mostly just for bragging rights. As long as it runs, what difference does it make what the guts look like? I guess if you can afford one, you can afford to have it restored.
ReplyDeleteCOSC Certified Chronometer. regards, Alemaster
DeleteI wonder if he has extra parts left over when he's done. I could never do that job
ReplyDeleteHe probably would think the same thing about taking apart and reassembling an AR-15 or a Ruger Mark II. It's all about repetition and comfort zone.
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DeleteCheck out this time lapse video - less than 3 minutes. While certainly not a watch rebuild .. watch for the leftover parts at the very end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVDrGsaDME
I run an Vostok komandirskie auto wind. Paid just over a hundy for it a few years back and it works great. Fuck Rolex.
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Back in the 1980s technology caught up with really high quality watches for accuracy. Nowadays I have a Garmin Fenix sports watch which is just loaded with brilliant tech and is always set to the correct time to the absolute second. I do a lot of swimming and just counting laps and calculating all the stats on the day's performance makes it worth having.
ReplyDelete$3-5 digital walmart watch here, changed the battery in it once already and working for over 12 years. I do have a broken Seiko that I might have fixed up sometime but probably not.
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That vid was very informative.
ReplyDeleteI have a Casio Chronongraph and Timex Expedition that I've had both for over thirty years. Replaced the battery twice in both and they're about due for another. Neither one keeps what I call "good" time as they both gain several seconds a month. I reset them to NIST time about once a quarter or if I know I''ll be somewhere where I need an accurate time tic, like during hunting season.
Nemo.
Three Seiko watches. First two died after a few years and were sent in for replacement movements, about 1/2 cost of new watch. When the third one died, I said "fuckit."
ReplyDeleteGot one of these:
www.sportsmansguide.com/product/index/military-style-army-stainless-steel-watch?a=44553
Shitcanned the chintzy strap, use inexpensive Velcro bands instead.
Keeps excellent time, easy to read and the price is right. ($27.00 at that time.)
Battery lasts almost 2 years, get 'em changed by a cute Japanese lady for 8 bucks.
Also bought another one JIC.
Imagine him taking an hourglass apart and cleaning each grain of sand one at a time.
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ReplyDeletewho the fuck has a watch?
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DeleteI don’t for the fact they stop working when I put one on. I gave up trying many years ago.
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I've had Seiko for years, I recently sent it in for a crystal change and after a couple of weeks it was returned with a $150 charge. It is like a brand new watch, whoo hoo.
ReplyDelete25 years ago I was working on a power plant job way far out in Northwest China installing American made equipment in a Chinese power plant and when I was finished with my project I had a couple days to kill in Beijing And during my wanderings I found a place they called the silk market. They had knock offs of everything and I bought a Rolex for me and one for my wife. You would have had to have been an expert to tell them from the real things.
ReplyDeleteI bet that's a knock off and not a genuine Rolex.....He didn't look Swiss to me.
ReplyDeleteA couple or few years of that and he will be wearing glasses as thick as Coke bottle bottoms.
ReplyDeleteBrain surgery could be an easy side gig for that one. I can think of one other skill he'd be good to have for that uses timers and the like.
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