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Post by josejmartinez on Dec 9, 2013 7:30:29 GMT -8
Just an expensive beater or tool watch?
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donciccio
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Post by donciccio on Dec 9, 2013 8:33:28 GMT -8
I have a customer that brought his dads Submariner in for repair. His dad passed away and he planned on wearing it as a work watch. He was a stone mason/brick layer/dude that works with concrete and stone.
So the answer in this case is yes.
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Post by 69ChevelleSS on Dec 9, 2013 8:57:28 GMT -8
My brother-in-law is retired but he wears his every day no matter what he's doing (building docks, sheds, etc).
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Post by trandy on Dec 9, 2013 9:15:42 GMT -8
Maybe the ultimate tool watch....depends on your viewpoint.
Me? No...too expensive to be banging it around...but that's just me.
There's guys on the Rolex Forum who do everything while wearing a Sub.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2013 9:56:57 GMT -8
Just an expensive beater or tool watch? Both but definitely a waste of money to just bash around embarrassed-smiley-face
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Post by normdiaz on Dec 9, 2013 10:33:30 GMT -8
It can be considered whatever the owner/wearer designates.
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Post by bobbymike on Dec 9, 2013 12:59:40 GMT -8
The Free Market says, "Yes!".
Personally I don't care. Not my watch, didn't cost me a dime. The owner can do whatever he/she wants with it.
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Post by josejmartinez on Dec 9, 2013 13:22:08 GMT -8
My question came from the fact that when I was a child, these were the only ones that did take a licking and kept on ticking. Most of the brands out there were still the 80 lb weaklings... Japanese watches were just starting in Mexico, and they were not regarded as "good" watches to have because of their low prices.
I do remember a guy that was the owner of a little town hardware store that got a brand new Datejust... this guy banged the watch around so much and without mercy that he must have ruined it right away. I remember I saw him wearing it when it was new and ooolala...what a beautiful watch and a couple of weeks later it looked all scratched... don't even know if it still worked... However, seeing that they are so expensive to fix, and considering that they are not throwaways if one is not Carlos Slim, one has to really be careful when wearing one.
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Post by kingrat on Dec 9, 2013 13:55:53 GMT -8
There's no way a bricklayer with any brains would wear a Rolex to work. I wear a 'G'
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Post by bobbymike on Dec 9, 2013 19:36:00 GMT -8
There's no way a bricklayer with any brains would wear a Rolex to work. I wear a 'G' I didn't even bother wearing a watch when I was doing masonry, but that was back in '89 and I didn't appreciate digital watches then.
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Post by seikola on Dec 11, 2013 19:03:59 GMT -8
They were tool watches, once upon a time. wind back to the early 70's and a Rolex sub would cost you $250-$300, at around the same time a Seiko 6105 diver would have been about a hundred, So that's two and half Seiko's in money terms to one Rolex, nowadays the Rolex sub would set you back about $7300 and the equivalent Seiko to the 6105 would be something like maybe a skx007 or a spork so about $400 retail, so a Rolex sub is now 18 times the price of the Seiko, Now what's changed ? IMHO both watches whether the recent or the vintage models are still excellent watches, it's just the target customer has changed for Rolex who made the decision to take their product upmarket along with the price, this was their answer to the quartz revolution and it worked well. I still think the Rolex sub is a great tool watch construction wise but it's now out of the price range of the sort of people who used to buy them for their ruggedness and quality and is really only a tool watch for the wealthy, Seikola
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Post by josejmartinez on Dec 11, 2013 20:36:45 GMT -8
You have said something tha is very true.
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