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Originally Posted by HiBoost
This touches on something I've thought about recently after hearing a watch podcast where they talked about movement swapping. Apparently there is a trend where the customer-facing service centers just swap in entire new movements and then send your original movement overseas for full overhaul and eventual swapping back into somebody else's watch. They didn't name brands that were doing this, but said it was spreading to more and more companies as a way to reduce costs and also improve turnaround time on services. I certainly hope this practice never comes to Rolex as I feel many of us strongly prefer the idea of it being our watch along the journey. Swapping out a part here and there, sure, but if the entire movement was swapped that would feel like I'm not even getting my watch back anymore. Anyway, maybe having more plug-and-play components (like this throwaway barrel assembly) will allow Rolex to strike a balance between 12 week service times and complete movement swaps.
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You know for my dj I actually would prefer a movement swap out.
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