Most high end watches
need to be serviced every 5-6 years. No more than that. I've
never paid more than $500 on any Rolex, Breitling, etc.
On 12/3/14 5:25 PM, Sport Classic Comp wrote:
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
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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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