just sent my Tag link pro auto in for service,
every couple of years it usually cost me about $200 for a full service, this
year however, I get a call from Tag with an estimate of $550, they want to
replace crown, gaskets, overhaul movement, all new pins in the bracelet.
Was contemplating not repairing but I've owned that watch for 13 years and
really like it, wear it daily. So I agreed. Still think it was awfully high,
maybe I'm wrong.
Wade
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Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 6:08
PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Watch rant
I think I'll just get the Apple Watch instead, at these prices, they can
be disposable like phones and I'll still come out ahead. And yes, I have a
Rolex that I've been wearing for 20 years and the back has never been
off.
Jesus this pisses me off.
Erik
Sent from my iPad
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.
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