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Re:Inside Rolex's Manufacturing Facilities (2015) by mwexler on Monday January 23, 2017 @08:39AM (#13462055)
Note also that Rolex supplies parts only to registered dealers and repair shops, and they are expected to turn away watches with shady provenance which might be grey market. They even make the repair shop return the worn parts, to prevent refurbishing and re-use. While independent dealers can source alternative parts, you now have a watch with parts potentially better but more likely worse than original manufacture.

As much as I appreciate what Rolex can do and be, I find this parts-and-repair behavior really tacky.

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Re:Inside Rolex's Manufacturing Facilities (2015) by julian_t on Monday January 23, 2017 @11:49AM (#13463521)
My wife bought me a 'nice' watch as a birthday present, a Raymond Weil quartz. Nice thin case that suits my slim build rather well, but... like many other people I hadn't expected the high maintenance cost, but what really put me off was when one link in the bracelet disintegrated. No, Weil don't repair them, and no, they don't sell single links so a jeweler could fix it. They wanted 400UKP for a new bracelet, and so now the fancy watch sits on the shelf and an Apple watch does me very well.
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Re:Inside Rolex's Manufacturing Facilities (2015) by general_ai on Monday January 23, 2017 @12:58PM (#13464187)
That's what people failed to understand about Apple Watch. Everyone else makes wrist computers first, watches second. Apple Watch is the other way around: watch first computer second. It's not quite there yet as a watch, but it'll get there, probably this year. Jony Ive is a watch nerd, he knows it.
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