Luan Pra bang

Apparently that is now the price to get a swiss watch serviced , what an actual pisstake. On the plus side the allegedly hard to find sold out green glass Milgauss was in the window for £5100. Swiss watch makers are taking the **** from now on I will buy chinese.

lozgti1

That's the only Rolex I like!!

Gear Head

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I still cannot understand why people spend that amount of cash on a watch.
Any other reason other than showing off?

GlesgaKiss

Do you need a better reason?

fatscoobfella1

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Service it yourself...

pslewis

As above ... service it yourself!

I open them and squirt some WD40 in and close ...... that's all you need.

lozgti1

Bit of 3 in 1...£3

Luan Pra bang

I will see, I only took it in as a stone came loose from the dial so its £400 for a service plus however much they charge for super glueing the stone. If they take the **** on the quote for super glue I will just DIY the dial and not bother with the service.

The Zohan

If it is waterproof and you use it in water then get a decent jewellers to fit the stone and reseal it

£400.00 seems excessive, get another quote?

Gordo

£550 for mine - broke the glass by accident, which they want £150 for, but insist on a compulsory £550 service at the same time (even though it's not due one) - and to cap it it'll apparently take a minimum of 8 months (!). I won't buy another Rolex as their customer service is appalling.

G

pslewis

Should I have serviced my Rolex's?

Holy Crap ..... I have no record of services for them ....... ??

Or my Omega's

Luan Pra bang

Depends what you call expensive, I have a hankering for a seagull tourbillon which is a snip at 9k, that may seem expensive until you consider that a swiss made tourbillon is 50k.
In all honesty in current lean times I don't think I will be buying anything, watches or otherwise that I don't need, the desire to continuously aquire more and more expensive material goods is a roundabout that can give short term pleasure rather than a path that takes you anywhere. I very nearly had a lapse and handed over my debit card for that Milgauss today though. I don't think my other half would have been happy that I spent 5k of the new kitchen fund though..

Luan Pra bang

I was told 18 weeks. Its a massive pisstake.

pslewis

Watches could well be a clever place to invest money ...... cash in the bank is losing about £4,000 per £100,000 per year at the moment in spending power.

If you are the average saver and have around £350,000 in cash on deposit, then you are losing around £14,000 a year ...... buy a £10,000 watch and it should/will be worth the same each year (if you buy wisely).

Gordo

Someone told me binoculars are a similarly attractive investment

pslewis

Not the one's I want

legb4rsk

Glad I am not an average saver losing £14,000 per year.
Makes you wonder how people manage.

RobsyUK

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A watch needs servicing.... What about LED ones?

pslewis

You are lucky ..... that is some peoples total income, if they live on interest.

Not more than 4 years ago £350,000 returned around £30,000 a year, with Inflation at 2% ...... imagine living on that already low income and then dropping down to the levels they are at now - with inflation running at over 5%!!

It's not clever!

Anyway - back on topic .... £400 is ludicrous for a service of a watch - and, as for 8 months waiting ...... nah ....

GC8

Shhh Thrush. You dont have either.

People who really own a Rolex should remember that Theyll polish it to death too - not what everyone wants.

ChefDude

lol, buys a rolex, generally a symbol of wealth, and then bleats about servicing costs

you are right - that is expensive and i do like rolex watches, but it's still a funny irony.

stilover

I paid just over £300 to get my Breitling serviced.

Not going to bother again.

Chip

And these days most people assume thy are copies anyway so why bother I say.

Chip

Gear Head

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Each to their own and all that but anyone who spends more than £300 on a bloody watch needs their head examined.

paulr

I have a Breitling and a Tag. Never had them serviced. I read an article by someone who worked for IWC and he said dont bother. By taking them apart you can do more damage than leaving them. Only get them serviced if they become faulty. As for losing time, as long as its not 10 minutes/ day, who needs such accuracy. Never understood that argument.

btw, it would be nice to know what they do in a service. Anyone any good links.

paulr

No they dont.

austinwrx

I do, normally because when you see some bling on a bloke's wrist: he'll have a tracksuit on, a strange council estate swagger and be smoking royals

or be eastern european and a bit swarthy:


put it like this, never the people you really think can afford them, wear them.


always found this expensive watching buying thing, verging on homosexuality.

it really is a mincingly ghey activity.


just in my view of course

Gear Head

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Agreed. Why wear £20k on your arm when you can spend it on drugs and hookers?

Chip

Oh yes they do

Leslie

Looks like a nice little earner to me!

Do people fall for that sort of thing?

Les