| dazed and confuzzed 2005-07-19, 11:25 pm |
| Alan Street wrote:
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> In article <RdCdnc8oR-nWHUDfRVn-1A@comcast.com>, dazed and confuzzed
> <dedmann@comcast_remove.net> wrote:
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> € rustydustin@yahoo.com wrote:
> €
> € > Michael Wolf wrote:
> € >
> € >>How can you still consider it well made when you already had to spent
> € >>1100$ on repairs?
> € >
> € >
> € > This is a good point. I'm not so sure anymore about Rolex.
> € > Certainly I'd never buy another one nor recommend it.
> € > But, I'm already sunk in the Rolex mud, so to speak.
> € >
> € > Amortized, it's been about $100 a year for maintenance for this Rolex
> € > watch.
> € > Of course, that might not be a representative number (I have no idea).
> € > I wonder what other people pay in "typical" Rolex maintenance.
> €
> € FWIW, I have a Tag 2000 automatic, and I have averaged about $20 per
> € year for the past 14 years on maintenance.(not counting broken and/or
> € melted crystals, which are certainly not the watches fault)
> €
> € But I don't take it diving...
>
> I'm afraid to ask - how do you "melt" a crystal.
Casting aluminum and Iron.
If you forget to take them off, you can sometimes crack them from
spatter when welding without gloves.
Breaking them from imapacts while wearing your watch on your wrist is
more painful, however, and the effects are probably longer lasting.
Suprisingly, they resist a grinding wheel quite well.
YMMV
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"Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions"
G.K. Chesterton
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