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21 December 2022, 05:37 AM | #25 | |
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As my Grand father used to say. "There's no experience like the experience you pay for". As others have wisely counciled. A trip to a Rolex service centre or a highly respected independent watchmaker such as LA Watchworks(that has a Rolex parts account) will be in order to remedy your troubles and it takes as long as it takes. Besides, you have to pop your cherry at some point and there's no better occassion like you now have especially as you have no service history with the watch. As an example. I have recently sent one of mine in for a movement service to our only RSC and it took about 2 weeks for a quote to come back with an unexpected surprise contained within it which I hadn't anticipated at all as the watch basically seemed just fine, except for a slightly notchy feeling when manually winding that was intermittent. Timekeeping was great as well I think it was caught in the nick of time The expected turn around without polishing is potentially 12-14 weeks according to a verbal estimate from my contact at the Rolex dealer who i went through. Then again i have it in print from someone higher up that it will probably take considerably longer. Then again, that person originally assessed the watch upon casual inspection as probably not really needing a service Take from that what you will, but I'm inclined to go with my direct contact on this one Many things can go wrong with these little machines and the numbers can add up unexpectedly. There's a fairly recent post over at the watchmaking sub-forum which can bare witness to the scope of work that may be encountered on a 33 year old watch. Vanessa had outlined a number of years ago how she goes about a standard service. It's worth just checking that sub-forum out in order to familiarise yourself as to how these things can go |
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