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Nov 2, 2020 16:10:37 GMT
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Post by Andy C on Nov 2, 2020 16:10:37 GMT
I’ve just had an email from Watchfinder to say that all warranty’s are 24 month now instead of 12 , so therefore mine has been extended to July 2022
Happy days
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Post by ChrisM on Nov 2, 2020 17:41:47 GMT
^ Why? Has it gone wrong?
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Post by Martin on Nov 2, 2020 17:59:17 GMT
I’ve just had an email from Watchfinder to say that all warranty’s are 24 month now instead of 12 , so therefore mine has been extended to July 2022 Happy days Good of them to give you the new benefit post purchase.
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Post by racingteatray on Nov 2, 2020 18:27:59 GMT
I’ve just had an email from Watchfinder to say that all warranty’s are 24 month now instead of 12 , so therefore mine has been extended to July 2022 Happy days Good of them to give you the new benefit post purchase. Indeed.
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Post by racingteatray on Nov 2, 2020 18:28:38 GMT
Very nice. I initially thought you were wearing driving gloves in the photo No, just for some reason had hand in pocket.
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Nov 2, 2020 20:49:26 GMT
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Post by Andy C on Nov 2, 2020 20:49:26 GMT
I’ve just had an email from Watchfinder to say that all warranty’s are 24 month now instead of 12 , so therefore mine has been extended to July 2022 Happy days Good of them to give you the new benefit post purchase. That’s what i thought
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Post by ChrisM on Nov 27, 2020 18:45:24 GMT
If you ever wondered what went into a Citizen Skyhawk.....
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Post by Stuntman on Nov 27, 2020 21:07:02 GMT
I'm liking the new Christopher Ward Super Compressors, but I think they would be a bit big for me. Stu, Ed, Andy- up your street, maybe? www.christopherward.com/retro-diveI like the deep blue one with the matching bezel.
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Post by Andy C on Nov 27, 2020 22:54:12 GMT
I'm liking the new Christopher Ward Super Compressors, but I think they would be a bit big for me. Stu, Ed, Andy- up your street, maybe? www.christopherward.com/retro-diveI like the deep blue one with the matching bezel. Very nice. But I’ve worn mine about 10 times since I’ve owned it. There’s no way I would be looking to buy another one. Weird isn’t it - I’ve never been into watches , apart from wanting a Monaco for years . But now I find myself looking on watchfinder pretty much every day. I can see how this hobby gets addictive . The last watch I think i owned was a Ben Sherman Back in about 04 . The one before that was a thank you present from Subaru. . I was at the motorshow 2000 at the nec. I was 12 and It was the first one I was allowed to go to on my own (well with a mate) . I found a very expensive camera in the passenger footwell of a car on the Subaru stand . Can’t remember what car it was. Rather than take it I handed it in and a manager came over and said can I have your details, I want to thank you for what you did. About 6 weeks later a watch arrived . A quick google search shows it’s was this one . The watch was too big for me at the time , so my dad had it and he still wears it from time to time
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Post by Stuntman on Nov 28, 2020 22:52:14 GMT
That's pretty cool, and a really nice thank-you present. Shame it wasn't an actual Impreza Turbo, or better still, a P1 I intend to reduce the number of watches I own. I think between 6 and 8 could go, and then I would add one or two. And then hopefully stop!
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Post by Martin on Nov 29, 2020 7:34:29 GMT
That's pretty cool, and a really nice thank-you present. Shame it wasn't an actual Impreza Turbo, or better still, a P1 I intend to reduce the number of watches I own. I think between 6 and 8 could go, and then I would add one or two. And then hopefully stop! No need to sell so many, it’s only £125 for very probably the next one you’ll buy.
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Post by Stuntman on Nov 29, 2020 20:27:49 GMT
Very probably not!
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Post by racingteatray on Dec 30, 2020 14:31:39 GMT
Thank f**k for decent home and contents insurance. My wife managed to drop my Rolex onto a tiled floor in Italy in August, which cracked the sapphire face. Mercifully this was covered by our insurance, which includes accidental damage outside the home and abroad. Finally got the quote through for the repair through from Rolex via my insurance company’s claims handler.... A little north of £1,000 and that’s assuming the face hasn’t been damaged by fragments of the sapphire, in which case it will cost even more... My wife is most relieved that she only has to pay the £200 excess and I am most relieved that I had the foresight to pay a bit extra to protect our no-claims discount... So today, finally, I got my Rolex back from the insurers. All serviced and guaranteed for the next two years, and generally looking virtually new again. And at £200 for the excess, at the end of the day much cheaper than a normal service (which it was due this year) would have cost me. What really startled me though was that it turned up with the postwoman this morning in the normal post. She just had it in her trolley along with the rest of the post - it has a replacement value of about £7k!! That seems utterly barking to me.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2020 15:37:35 GMT
I would have to agree with that. Worthy of a direct letter to the manager?
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Watches
Dec 30, 2020 15:43:10 GMT
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Post by LandieMark on Dec 30, 2020 15:43:10 GMT
Special Delivery presumably?!
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Post by racingteatray on Dec 30, 2020 16:27:58 GMT
Special Delivery presumably?! Yes, but still in the trolley being pushed around the streets by the postwoman with the rest of the mail.
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Post by Martin on Dec 30, 2020 16:33:55 GMT
Special Delivery presumably?! Yes, but still in the trolley being pushed around the streets by the postwoman with the rest of the mail. Probably safer. Hidden in plain sight. I remember having a strong debate with someone over the distribution of high value goods to stores. They were being delivered in trays / totes which were stacked and then strapped together. He wanted a lid strapped to the one with the high value products, but that just told someone there were high value items being delivered and exactly where to look.
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Post by Stuntman on Dec 30, 2020 19:58:24 GMT
Definitely safer, as Martin says. And as it's Special Delivery, it will be fully insured by the sender in the extremely unlikely event of it going missing.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Dec 30, 2020 23:50:18 GMT
Thank f**k for decent home and contents insurance. My wife managed to drop my Rolex onto a tiled floor in Italy in August, which cracked the sapphire face. Mercifully this was covered by our insurance, which includes accidental damage outside the home and abroad. Finally got the quote through for the repair through from Rolex via my insurance company’s claims handler.... A little north of £1,000 and that’s assuming the face hasn’t been damaged by fragments of the sapphire, in which case it will cost even more... My wife is most relieved that she only has to pay the £200 excess and I am most relieved that I had the foresight to pay a bit extra to protect our no-claims discount... So today, finally, I got my Rolex back from the insurers. All serviced and guaranteed for the next two years, and generally looking virtually new again. And at £200 for the excess, at the end of the day much cheaper than a normal service (which it was due this year) would have cost me. What really startled me though was that it turned up with the postwoman this morning in the normal post. She just had it in her trolley along with the rest of the post - it has a replacement value of about £7k!! That seems utterly barking to me. I sent my Omega away to be serviced in Hatton Garden 5 months ago and last Monday the doorbell rang and when I got there no one was there. Then I looked down at my feet and a small package was on the doorstep and when I looked up again the postman was waving from the end of the drive. Inside a very nice red Omega travel case was my watch serviced and polished up like new. I'm delighted with the result and the quality of the work, I just wish they'd been a bit quicker. They blamed Covid etc etc.
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Post by racingteatray on Dec 31, 2020 0:17:58 GMT
Not just me then! Yes, this is now the second time my Rolex has been serviced and each time it comes back in a dark green velvet-type Rolex-branded pouch which is presumably for travel. So now I can give one to my wife for her Rolex. Technically I ought to get that serviced as well as it's been eight years since I bought it for her. But she very rarely wears it so I think it's probably fine.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Dec 31, 2020 8:53:13 GMT
Not a 7k Rolex but I have just bought a Vostok Amphibian Russian watch. Mechanical wind with auto winding for the princely sum of 135 quid. These have quite a following, are said to be tough and are easily modified as all the parts are available cheaply. The one I have bought is a fair bit more than they typical US$75 direct from the factory website but it has been modified by the UK based seller into a really nice looking dive watch by changing the bezel, crown and adding a brown leather rally strap. If this one is OK I may well buy another from the factory, mod it myself and use it for work, save the one I have just bought for daily out of work use and then I have the Christopher Ward for best. Here's the Russian:
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Dec 31, 2020 12:28:16 GMT
Not a 7k Rolex but I have just bought a Vostok Amphibian Russian watch. Mechanical wind with auto winding for the princely sum of 135 quid. These have quite a following, are said to be tough and are easily modified as all the parts are available cheaply. The one I have bought is a fair bit more than they typical US$75 direct from the factory website but it has been modified by the UK based seller into a really nice looking dive watch by changing the bezel, crown and adding a brown leather rally strap. If this one is OK I may well buy another from the factory, mod it myself and use it for work, save the one I have just bought for daily out of work use and then I have the Christopher Ward for best. Here's the Russian: I love them - have you found the secret compartment for the Novichok yet?
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Post by Roadsterstu on Dec 31, 2020 13:53:15 GMT
Found it? I also found the Novichok and the instructions on who is the target...
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Dec 31, 2020 13:59:36 GMT
Found it? I also found the Novichok and the instructions on who is the target... You know I now live in the North of Scotland don’t you?
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Post by racingteatray on Dec 31, 2020 17:19:12 GMT
I also have a Vostok Komandirskie mechanical watch which a friend of Russian descent gave me - he had been given it as a present by someone, but as his ancestors were on the receiving end of the 1917 revolution, he has zero love or nostalgia for the Soviet era and therefore asked me if I would like it. Needs a new strap.
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Post by chipbutty on Jan 2, 2021 19:31:04 GMT
There is a view that you shouldn’t open a Rolex up for the first time until it needs attention.
If it still keeps very good time then just leave it until it doesn’t.
I’ve had my date just serviced by Rolex twice now and it still doesn’t keep time like it did when it was new.
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Post by johnc on Jan 3, 2021 8:57:16 GMT
There is a view that you shouldn’t open a Rolex up for the first time until it needs attention. If it still keeps very good time then just leave it until it doesn’t. I’ve had my date just serviced by Rolex twice now and it still doesn’t keep time like it did when it was new. I was told by a jeweller that if a mechanical watch is used daily and is still keeping good time, he wouldn't want to touch it. Mechanical watches get issues when they lie around for long periods of time, unused.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jan 3, 2021 22:48:14 GMT
There is a view that you shouldn’t open a Rolex up for the first time until it needs attention. If it still keeps very good time then just leave it until it doesn’t. I’ve had my date just serviced by Rolex twice now and it still doesn’t keep time like it did when it was new. I was told by a jeweller that if a mechanical watch is used daily and is still keeping good time, he wouldn't want to touch it. Mechanical watches get issues when they lie around for long periods of time, unused. I wore mine pretty much every day for 12 years and it was still keeping excellent time when I sent it off. What I did find though was that it had begun to stop pretty quickly after I took it off (circa 18 or so hours) and when they opened it up it was because the oil had dried up, although in theory the Daniel's low friction coaxial escapement doesn't need oil. Now it's come back looking like new I've been reluctant to wear it every day again but I need to bite the bullet and just start putting it on when I get up like I used to.
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Post by racingteatray on Jan 4, 2021 17:35:26 GMT
There is a view that you shouldn’t open a Rolex up for the first time until it needs attention. If it still keeps very good time then just leave it until it doesn’t. That's all well and good, and reminds me of my father's simple steel Air King, which he was given for his 21st and always wore. By the time he finally decided it ought to go back to Rolex for some TLC, it must have been at least 30 years later as I was remember him doing it and I was already an adult by that point. However, my wife's Datejust is also now over 20 years old (think it was new in 1997) and was serviced by Watchfinder when I bought it second-hand from them in January 2013. Here it says that it is recommended that you should service a Rolex approximately every 10 years. Mine was 7 yrs old when I first sent it for a service which I did so because it had started to rattle slightly and not keep its usual precision time. This was probably connected to the fact that somehow it had picked up a noticeable dent in the side of the case (I have no idea how): www.rolex.com/watch-care-and-service/faq.html#:~:text=To%20guarantee%20continued%20accuracy%20and,model%20and%20real%2Dlife%20usage. I noticed that when I claimed on the insurance, the underwriters wanted to know whether the watch had been properly maintained by Rolex according to the prescribed schedules. Now it seems to be that in the case of dropping it and breaking the sapphire, maintenance ought to be irrelevant. But the claims handler did comment that it just made everything much more straightforward that my watch had been properly maintained because apparently insurers can be difficult about covering repairs to a watch if it hasn't been repaired as required.
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Post by racingteatray on Jan 4, 2021 17:48:05 GMT
I was told by a jeweller that if a mechanical watch is used daily and is still keeping good time, he wouldn't want to touch it. Mechanical watches get issues when they lie around for long periods of time, unused. Now it's come back looking like new I've been reluctant to wear it every day again but I need to bite the bullet and just start putting it on when I get up like I used to. Same here. But equally at the moment, I find I don't bother wearing a watch at home most of the time. Similarly, my wife has also stopped wearing a normal watch at home now in favour of a fitbit and, whilst I am not tempted by a fitbit, part of me is tempted by an Apple Watch as a way to not walk around even at home with two iPhones all the time.
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