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21 December 2014, 01:41 AM | #1 |
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218238 day wheel change
hey i guys i got a new day date 2 but the day wheel is in italian. being in england would prefer one i english. does anyone know weather the rsc in london would swap it out for free. or if they were to charge how much would it roughly cost.
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21 December 2014, 03:50 AM | #2 |
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Well I doubt if they would change for free,I would wait till service is due have it changed then as they have to strip watch down to service.
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21 December 2014, 04:43 AM | #3 |
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21 December 2014, 04:43 AM | #4 |
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does anyone have a idea of what il be charged???
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21 December 2014, 04:44 AM | #5 |
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Give them a call. It will not be free as you need to purchase a new day wheel, plus labor to switch it out. They will keep the old day wheel btw.
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21 December 2014, 04:56 AM | #6 |
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Would it be more cost efficient to learn Italian?
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21 December 2014, 05:16 AM | #7 |
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21 December 2014, 06:24 AM | #8 |
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I actually think you should leave the original watch as is, and appreciate the beauty of the language you otherwise wouldn't come across.
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21 December 2014, 06:30 AM | #9 |
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21 December 2014, 08:48 AM | #10 |
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21 December 2014, 06:36 AM | #11 |
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Let me know what you find out on the price.. I want to change out my date wheel on my ss YM to red......
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21 December 2014, 09:00 AM | #12 |
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RSC would not to that to your YM as the red date wheel is not a factory option for that model. You'd have to find an independent watch maker to do this, and source the red date wheel yourself.
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21 December 2014, 09:32 AM | #13 |
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I go with leaving it in Italian....... I note you have not made a lot of posts, you may get stunning when you see what Rolex charge for it. You indicate you got new, is that new to you or factory fresh new, to the comments above a service should be considered around 7 years old, that would be the best time to get it done when the watch is already pulled down. As a stand lone exercise it could be a few hundred dollars.
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I say change it to English and pay whatever it damn well costs, Britannia didn't rule over a quarter of the globe by accepting Italian datewheels, old chap.
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21 December 2014, 10:42 AM | #16 |
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Yes. And when the Romans left, the islanders couldn't make bricks or windows for almost a THOUSAND YEARS. Having said that . . . Thank God for Brittan.
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22 December 2014, 09:30 PM | #20 |
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Damn right!
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22 December 2014, 09:51 PM | #21 |
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If you're going to a day-wheel, consider an Australian day-wheel
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21 December 2014, 12:24 PM | #22 |
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jeez I'm overwhelmed guys.
to be totally honest I don't have the hours needed to learn a new language though i wish i did. on one side I'm thinking of leaving it till service time but on the other side i need to be able to tell what day it is buy using my left wrist. i will see how costly it is then decide on the fate of the roman day wheel. i could afford up to a few hundred pounds but anymore and il leave it. it was a totally new factory wrapped watch from a shop in london but they sourced it from italy is my understanding correct me if I'm wrong. would you be able to buy a watch in london from a ad with the days in italian? I'm going to try the saving cinderella story thats a good one. if i did go ahead with the change would it weaken any thing or would it stay good as new. might sound weird but please understand I'm a novice here and Im hoping that you guys and girls can help me knowledge myself about watches. the closet i owned to a dd2 was a casio databank when i was around 12. thank you again people |
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21 December 2014, 11:48 PM | #25 |
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Didn't you see the foreign language when you purchased it? Hopefully you got a great deal and the switch expense is nominal, but nothing with Rolex is nominal.... Lol
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22 December 2014, 02:20 AM | #26 |
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practice once a day ,,, use a visual aid to help , and you will soon pick up the lingo ,,,
after all its not arabic , now that would be a learning curve. |
22 December 2014, 07:37 AM | #27 |
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The day was something I didn't notice but not that fussed as it was fairly cheap. Probably know my days in Italian by the end of the year lol
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22 December 2014, 08:08 AM | #28 |
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22 December 2014, 08:03 AM | #29 |
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Free? The only thing free at the RSC is the estimates. That's about it.
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22 December 2014, 08:31 AM | #30 |
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will be calling them in the morning. let me have hope on it being pocket friendly
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