jonthebhoy Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 WOW. Good thing Ken has two left nuts eh? Golden nuts at that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadtorrent Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 Golden nuts at that! Anyone for three golden nuts? Three...Three...anyone...one lot of vintage Rolex inserts for 3 golden left nuts...going once...going twice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddy333 Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 Exactly. Vintage parts are brutal. I saw some 6542 perspex inserts no bezel going for $1200 in NY at auction. That is a steal. The last 3 (gen) Perspex inserts that sold on ebay each went for at least $2,200. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonSlayer Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 p.s. Where does it cost $80 for full servicing? Here in madrid, the cheapest I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadtorrent Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Using the current exchange rate, if you convert the cost of full overhaul of automatic movement from British pounds to dollars, it is around $80, from certain independant watchsmiths.. Gen Rolex will be slightly more of course.. And getting your gen Rolex serviced by AD will be a lot more than that. The fear for me in this case, is what is that independent watchsmith REALLY doing?? Are they REALLY doing a complete disassembly, full cleaning and proper oiling? If so...that's cheap. I imagine corners are being cut...call me skeptical and flame to high heaven...but if you get a quality full servicing for that price...I think you found Watch Servicing Nirvana!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuq Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 A letter has been sent to the AD that did the bad work... now does anyone have a good contact at Rolex NYC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offshore Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 A letter has been sent to the AD that did the bad work... now does anyone have a good contact at Rolex NYC? There are 3 guys you could talk to- Gibney, Anthony & Flaherty, LLP JK! O/S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuq Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 I've found the legal services of Dewey, Cheatham and Howe give much better results! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonSlayer Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 The fear for me in this case, is what is that independent watchsmith REALLY doing?? Are they REALLY doing a complete disassembly, full cleaning and proper oiling? If so...that's cheap. I imagine corners are being cut...call me skeptical and flame to high heaven...but if you get a quality full servicing for that price...I think you found Watch Servicing Nirvana!! Yes, complete full overhaul. The thing is though, we don't find it all that cheap here in the UK, its only because the pound has dropped so much against the dollar. When the pound was worth $2 or around that, then the servicing cost for regular automatic would be $100-110. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuq Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 I always believe in paying a workman for his labor, especially moreso if the guy is an artist. So if a service is $100 and it takes 4 hours to get it apart, ultrasonically cleaned, inspected, oiled, reassembled, checked on a timer for beat... that's a lousy $25/hour. An artist is worth far more than that, and I personally wouldn't want someone tearing my vintage gen down and slapping it back together in 4 hours. I have a carefully constructed mental image of Ziggy sitting in a warm wooded den, tools askance, briar pipe nearby with a snifter of good brandy, Debussy on the stereo, all dressed in tweed and slippers, J purring on the couch, and he's inspecting each minute detail of my watches with the biggest magnifying lens you've ever seen. After each successful inspection he dips the part, one at a time, into a vat of cleaning solution, and carefully hand dries it, placing it carefully on a padded velvet cushion. Of course he changes the solution between each part. See? That's how an artist does it... honest. Just ask J. And the results are well worth the going price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchmeister Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Actually, I picture Ziggy hunched over his 100 year old watch smith's desk (could be time to trot out those pictures) staring at the innards of another Rolex "gen movement franken" and swearing at that "serviced" movement which looks exactly like the pictures above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonSlayer Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 I always believe in paying a workman for his labor, especially moreso if the guy is an artist. So if a service is $100 and it takes 4 hours to get it apart, ultrasonically cleaned, inspected, oiled, reassembled, checked on a timer for beat... that's a lousy $25/hour. An artist is worth far more than that, and I personally wouldn't want someone tearing my vintage gen down and slapping it back together in 4 hours. I have a carefully constructed mental image of The Zigmeister sitting in a warm wooded den, tools askance, briar pipe nearby with a snifter of good brandy, Debussy on the stereo, all dressed in tweed and slippers, J purring on the couch, and he's inspecting each minute detail of my watches with the biggest magnifying lens you've ever seen. After each successful inspection he dips the part, one at a time, into a vat of cleaning solution, and carefully hand dries it, placing it carefully on a padded velvet cushion. Of course he changes the solution between each part. See? That's how an artist does it... honest. Just ask J. And the results are well worth the going price. Couldn't agree more. I wouldn't want no rush job on my gen either.. but it seems that watchmakers of the same calibre as The Zigmeister are not available in large numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuq Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Absolutely right on that!! I got the total for the AMAZING job he did on my 1680 and it's cheap at twice the price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddy333 Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 I have a carefully constructed mental image of Ziggy sitting in a warm wooded den, tools askance, briar pipe nearby with a snifter of good brandy, Debussy on the stereo, all dressed in tweed and slippers, J purring on the couch, and he's inspecting each minute detail of my watches with the biggest magnifying lens you've ever seen. After each successful inspection he dips the part, one at a time, into a vat of cleaning solution, and carefully hand dries it, placing it carefully on a padded velvet cushion. Of course he changes the solution between each part. In contrast to the image you have of the Zigmeister's smoke-filled, paneled den, the reality (for those, unlike our Nanuq, who really may not know) is that most watchmakers' benches tend to look more like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dluddy Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 Just had Ziggy service my Franken Tudor. Movement was all gunked up. Well worth it and nobody better to service it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fakemaster Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Wow. People really let things go bad don't they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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