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| Originally Posted by Sharpy G |
Ok fashion item, insides cost £5 if your lucky.
Once worked for Cartier 15 years ago, they sold a huge gold lump called The Pasha £5-7000, mechanical, the mechanism was the same style and quality standard that went into a plastic swatch that retailed for £25, I had a swatch and put them back to back. The steel Pasha retailed for £2-2500 had a better mechansim than the gold.
Don't expect any of these companies to give you what you think your getting, they will all rip you off and sell you cr*p.
As long as the hands go around and the timekeeping is somewhere near thats all that matters. All the time and money goes into the look of the outside.
At the time I worked at Cartier they had a movement exchange policy, so when a watch came in it was not serviced, the mechanism was sent back to switzerland and broken down, cleaned by monkeys and re-assembled, if any parts were faulty they were not changed as the monkey did not know what it was looking for.
So your nice new watch then got someones old mechanism inside, sometimes they had several lives before they got into your watch, any authenticity and history was effectively lost there and then! But what did they care as long as the hands went round and you did not know.
They are not so bad today, but it still may go on.
14-Sep-2006, 23:13 
and yes they are nice. Similar reason why I have a sea dweller. Stainless with black face, black bezel and no cyclops eye. Not an obvious rolex, I like that.
not as bad as some, local goldsmiths have a 10 year waiting list and have stopped taking names.
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