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I taught myself how to service Swiss watches this month. It’s a very difficult skill (I failed). The people who did the training and have the surgical ability
by kridsdale1 1y ago
I taught myself how to service Swiss watches this month. It’s a very difficult skill (I failed).
The people who did the training and have the surgical ability to fix a Rolex deserve $1000.
An elaborate precision machine that is 35mm across and hand-built over a year (so they say), it makes sense that “cheap” Swiss watches are $9000. Rolex retails for 2-4x of that due to brand cachet and artificial scarcity, even though they are by far the highest volume manufacturer.
- VirusNewbie 1y agoYou can get a really nice Omega/Breitling/Tag for much less than 9k, no? Rolex just seems to be the luxury watch among high end watches.
- caycep 1y agoIt's beyond what is the watch. Rolex is good, but omega speedy starts (started before inflation/tariffs?) at $5k. And is certified for Space(tm)! Some good smaller brands (nomos) at around $2k. Watch market above that starts getting weird. You have some special models, technically equivalent w/ cosmetic bling hitting $80-100k
- decafninja 1y agoI don’t think an equivalent Omega or Breitling is that much cheaper? Rolexes also keep their value incredibly well. I bought a nice Tag many years ago (I knew nothing about watches) and it’s now worth about $1000 on the used market at best. Had I bought a similar priced Rolex instead, it would have kept its value, if not even appreciated.
- mohsen1 1y ago2nm chips are more impressive if we're talking about precision. And I have one in my pocket for less than the repair cost of a Rolex.
- kulahan 1y agoThe nm of chips doesn't mean anything anymore, and it's really not more impressive anyways - that's built by a machine, which is the epitome of precision. A hand-built 2nm chip might be more impressive, but also impossible anyways.
- caycep 1y agotry replacing an individual resistor if it fails...
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