Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Watch rant

[Adam Green (FlatCrank]

The jewelers have really gone beyond the pale over the last 10 or 20 years.  I remember getting a repair on my first expensive wristwatch in the early 90's.  I was being billed some expensive but reasonable amount and the jeweler had (I think quite fairly) charged for his time at a fairly high rate, plus some absurdly but expectedly expensive parts.  I don't begrudge him a profit and I see his costs and overheads right there in brick and mortar.  Recently, after leaving it broken because I never needed the thing and I had a phone anyway, then I'd started wearing a "smartwatch" (Samsung Gear 2 ... I highly recommend!) I had a Breitling serviced because it had lost its winder mechanism.  It was about an $8K watch.  The repair was $2K.  As a percentage, it's almost the operating cost of servicing a Ferrari at the dealership I thought ... and clearly also a total racket.  Parts couldn't have be $500.  Labor at some sweatshop in Texas couldn't have been $200.  Total ripoff.  Soured me on the whole idea of the things and I'm someone who has spent $ for a set of carbon brake rotors, so I'm not afraid to spend the stuff and $2K is not a shocking dollar amount on an indulgence, but this is just daylight robbery, it's just beyond reason to conduct a business in this way.

Adam

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Erik Nielsen <judge4re [at] gmail.com> wrote:

Just a rant, but if you think belts on a 308 are expensive, I just was quoted $2788.54 for a movement service for a Girard Perregaux 275LM watch.

 

Anyone want to buy it from me, this is beyond ridiculous...

 

Regards,

Erik

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