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Recent price rises pushed through by Swiss brands and JLC in particular

Sometime in autumn 2021 I purchased a quartz JLC Reverso classic Monoface. At the time its MSRP was £3,950 but I very easily negotiated a 20% discount...
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US Miliary watch?

Does anyone know anything about this watch? Although I don’t wear it much anymore, it has been in my collection for years. When I bought it, the watch...
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Plastic parts in the Tissot Powermatic 80

I had been planning on buying a Tissot PRX until I recently found that parts of the Powermatic 80 (I believe the pallet fork and the escape wheel) wer...
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commented on Plastic parts in the Tissot Powermatic 80 ·

Point taken but I think it is notable that Tissot only use plastic in the cheapest versions of the Powermatic 80 movement. If plastic really is as good or even a better material than metal, they would surely use it in all the versions. The self-lubricating argument also looks thin as it inherently assumes that the solid plastic is being worn down to produce liquid lubricant, not an issue you have with rubies. As Uhrologe says the Powermatic is a young movement and it seems as if there is not a great deal of evidence out there as to how it will survive long term. The difficulty Tissot have is that there are many other nice watches for sale which do not carry of odium of their movements being made out of potentially inferior materials.

commented on Farasute... anyone? ·

Balthazar - did you end up getting a Farasute watch? If so, I would be interested in your opinion as to their quality. I confess I think they are very handsome and have been sorely tempted.

commented on How important is the accuracy of your watch to you? ·

An interesting question. My feel is that it depends on how long you wear a watch for. If it is for a couple of days at a time, accuracy is neither here or there. If it is for weeks or months at a time then the accuracy determines how often you need to reset your watch (a pain). I am happy for my watch to be say two minutes out, so if I'm only going to reset it every two weeks that means a maximum inaccuracy of 8 seconds a day. In fact I feel it should be closer to +/- 5 seconds per day, so an ETA 2824 is the “worst” automatic movement I will consider in watch.

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Do manufacturers 'guarantee' their watches accuracy?

Major brands put a lot of emphasis on their watches stated accuracy and in modern times the length of their guarantees. But does anyone know how long...
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