Do you consider the service cost in relation to the price, when buying a watch?

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When I buy a new watch I assume I will keep it for life. We all know that´s probably not going ta happen, but let´s pretend.

Let´s say I will live for another 50 years, I will service the watch every 5 years. That´s 10 times I have to do a service, and let´s say the service will cost an average of $ 1000 each time.

That´s $ 10 000 in service costs.

Do you guys relate this cost to how much the price of the watch is when you buy it? Is it reasonable that the total service price might be higher than the actual value/price of the watch?

I guess this might apply more to PP or AP watches, but a Daytona work as an example...

I don´t know if I got it all wrong, but in my mind buying the watch should be the most expensive part of owning a fine watch.