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Originally Posted by TheVTCGuy
Excellent points, and over-all I agree with you.
Forgive me if this has been brought up before, but.. well, we are a very focused group here on TRF, so what I am submitting is that our awareness of the deficiency is higher then the general public. If you think about it, in the general public, a person who buys a Rolex could probably go for five or more years without even realizing there was anything wrong. Unless of course, the accuracy was really out of sorts, but to the average person, a mechanical watch losing a couple minutes every few days might even not be recognized. I wonder if this is influencing Rolex not being very forthright about this issue, nothing public  |
It's certainly possible that our subset here is pretty focused on stuff like this but on the other hand Rolex makes such a big deal about accuracy in it's advertising and goes so far as to print "superb chronometer" on every dial. But not sure how much that factors into the average buyers decision.
I mean heck, plenty of high-end watches don't have any accuracy guarantee at all or even hacking movements. You can certainly spend a LOT more on a watch than a Rolex and end up with something not terribly accurate, rugged or reliable. And spend a LOT less and get a watch that is more accurate, rugged and reliable. For a certain part of the market though, the Rolex niche was a luxury watch that was also a very good watch.