I know what they are :lol: 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.

Put my name dowm on the waiting list for a stainless Daytona, due in about 3 years now :( not as bad as some, local goldsmiths have a 10 year waiting list and have stopped taking names.

Not sure if I will keep it or just turn it over for a profit.

You guys obviously have too much money.;)

I just buy a new ' gold ' plated from argos every year £ 25.00 max, then it doesn't matter if I lose/break it.:D

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.

Without sounding harsh, if you cannot afford to pay dealer prices you cannot afford to own it.
Would you let mickey mouse work on you Ducati?
I now they charge more but if you get a good watchmaker at Rolex do it they change all parts that are worn free as part of service, Joe Bloggs down the road won't he probably won't have access to materials if he had to anyway.
I'm anti Rolex as I worked there, but if I was you and I had one I'd send it there, not your local jewellers to do it, back to Rolex in Bexley.

If he was Rolex trained he would have to have all waterproofing equipment, they would not supply any watch material if he could not do the same job as they would.
All independant watchmakers complain about access for watch parts, but a lot of them are cowboys. Your watch, your choice.
Back to Rolex every time and pay the bill when it comes, any complaints send it back and give them a hard time, but a least you've got a worldwide guarentee on your service, joe bloggs up the road give you that?

bought many watches
nothing expensive £60-100
none of them have lasted more than a year or two till now£3.95 aldi watch is well in to it's third year!!

If you add up all the cash you spend in a life time, and loose, on normal dress watches for around £60 to £100 ... you'd be better off buying a rolex or similar that will always be worth what you paid for it, or even worth more if you buy the right model and look after it.

Thats a bit harsh Jeff - lol !! My attitude is in someway linked to the complete bunch of noces who run my local dealer - Theyve got ther heads right up there harrises !!!

So - how often should you service them..? I wear mine intermittently - on average about 2-3 days a week.

Carbon........aint life too short to worry about this sorta thing ?

Naaaa .... boys and toys.:lol: