All the new rolexes come with a 5 year full warranty. And Rolex will repair your watch for life to restore it. If your house burns down and all that's left of your rolex is the charred case, they will restore it and make it look like new. Sure its gonna cost at least $1k but its worth it of it's a family heirloom or a valuable model.Across the street for the Main Gate at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey is the world famous Mr. Rolex's Shop. Bought a couple when I was deployed there. The movements only lasted a year or so.
Sweet baby jesus. Love the navitimer. What a military classic!!A family member of mine inherited a watch from another family member's estate and it turned out to be a vintage Breitling Navitimer
Sweet baby jesus. Love the navitimer. What a military classic!!
LOL. Yeah they are. I'm a dumb redneck but I like the mechanical aspects of a nice watch. Or in the navitimers case the historical aspects as well.I am a self-admitted heathen who doesn't give even a single **** about watches, but that old Breitling is pretty neat.
LOL. Yeah they are. I'm a dumb redneck but I like the mechanical aspects of a nice watch. Or in the navitimers case the historical aspects as well.
I think for me it's the connection to the past and it's easy to useI'm a gadget nerd in every sense of the word, but watches never did anything for me. Actually, there's no jewelry that ever really interested me at all. I never hardly ever wore my wedding band when I was married because it drove me nuts...and I worked in a factory at the time so I couldn't wear it there anyway.
I sure am glad neither the wife or I are into watches or jewelry, I couldn't tell fakes from real at all.
LOLI know how to tell--if I can afford it, it's fake!
..There is actually people who collect super fakes. Like mentioned above, the sweeping motion that people always talk about from rolex (simply an automatic movement) can be had in simple seiko movements
They will take a seiko watch guts and put it inside a fake rolex case. ...
Yeah I dont know all the different movements, I just buy the ones I like and watch them run lol.Most of the "super" fakes use Chinese manufactured clones of the ETA 2824 or 2836 movement. Some even use actual Swiss ETA movements. That's because they have a higher beat rate, 28800 beats per hour or 8 per second. This produces a smoother sweep than a Citizen(Miyota) or a Seiko(Hattori) movement at 21600 BPH, six beats per second.
Another quirk of the Miyota 8*** movements that can be a dead giveaway is that the second hand can actually stop moving for a couple seconds. I have a Deep Blue diver's watch with the Miyota 8315 that I can make do this at will. Just a little shake, and the second hand pauses for a couple seconds. That's because the second hand is indirectly driven. There is a small amount of backlash between the gears that drive the second hand. There is a brake spring that takes up some of the slack, but if it were made tighter, the watch wouldn't work properly because of the extra friction.
I know, I'm a watch nerd.
...We need to start an ingo watch thread and group...
Ha I agree. One watch can cost more than a whole gun collection lolI'd hate to get anybody started down that road.
Watches are a far worse habit than guns.