1,589 Discussions and CommentsMember since May 16, 2002
With your bits of lume floating around some may already be in the movement. So a service is advisable, which requires stripping cleaning lubricant reassembly testing adjusting etc. The seals may have been pinched and therefore need replacing. As to the bill for your GMT that's your business not mine and I would imagine Rolex would charge a little more than IWC.
My first job was for a watch and clock importers, and the service department was a place of fascination and awe. Try showing respect to those you asked help from. And we are all singing from the same hymn sheet trying to persuade you from ruining the authenticity and pedigree of your watch. Which you seem hell bent on doing. All because your mindset will not let you see beyond a dial change ex factory is all that is required and why can not it be done cheaply. A job done incorrectly is incorrect. A near miss does not score. A lottery ticket with adjacent numbers to the draw numbers gets you nothing. I wish you had never posted your request for help, as it saddens me that you are obsessed with saving money by having an incorrect job done. Said expenditure is therefore unnnecessary and wasted as it's paying for the incorrect job!
3 Discussions and CommentsMember since Sept. 16, 2011
this is hilarious. all of you need to get lives (except the original poster who is very well grounded and has a decent perspective on life; who cares if a new dial was made in switzerland or china? in ten years they'll all be coming from china anyway (bet some parts already do)
anyway the rest of you have made me so nauseous that as part of transitioning from IWC to JLC, instead of selling the next one in my lineup I think I'm going to smash it with a hammer and post it on youtube to show the true "value" of an IWC. Maybe there will be some dissection with a dremel as well. Here is the question for you- who gets the axe?
-Big Pilot in SS -A Saint Big Pilot in SS -FA Jones in Plat -Minute Repeater in Plat
I appreciate you're trying to be humorous, but if you can write me. I try to have a forum where there aren't what might be interpreted as personal attacks or ridicule, and differing opinions can be expressed well. Also a post needn't be posted twice, as a response and as a new discussion.
So if you could, write me at Michael.R.Friedberg@gmail.com --thanks very much.
My first job was for a watch and clock importers, and the service department was a place of fascination and awe. Try showing respect to those you asked help from. And we are all singing from the same hymn sheet trying to persuade you from ruining the authenticity and pedigree of your watch. Which you seem hell bent on doing. All because your mindset will not let you see beyond a dial change ex factory is all that is required and why can not it be done cheaply. A job done incorrectly is incorrect. A near miss does not score. A lottery ticket with adjacent numbers to the draw numbers gets you nothing. I wish you had never posted your request for help, as it saddens me that you are obsessed with saving money by having an incorrect job done. Said expenditure is therefore unnnecessary and wasted as it's paying for the incorrect job!
Cheers Greg Chalk
Cvanwhite at aol dot com
Last edited: 21 February, 2013 - 13:47
anyway the rest of you have made me so nauseous that as part of transitioning from IWC to JLC, instead of selling the next one in my lineup I think I'm going to smash it with a hammer and post it on youtube to show the true "value" of an IWC. Maybe there will be some dissection with a dremel as well. Here is the question for you- who gets the axe?
-Big Pilot in SS
-A Saint Big Pilot in SS
-FA Jones in Plat
-Minute Repeater in Plat
Ya'll pick!
Last edited: 16 September, 2011 - 09:52
I appreciate you're trying to be humorous, but if you can write me. I try to have a forum where there aren't what might be interpreted as personal attacks or ridicule, and differing opinions can be expressed well. Also a post needn't be posted twice, as a response and as a new discussion.
So if you could, write me at Michael.R.Friedberg@gmail.com --thanks very much.
Regards, Michael
mfriedberg@iwcforum.com
Last edited: 5 April, 2012 - 19:53
I suggest you auction these watches and send the money to charity. At least someone will benefit from your "uniqueness".
Andrew
andrew.thomas1@mac.com
Last edited: 1 January, 2012 - 02:03