[alphadweller]

Originally Posted by TheVTCGuy

I am not a watchmaker, and I didn’t sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night (American TV commercial joke for those of you out of the US) but one thing I just can’t understand.



If, and I am not doubting your assessment, if, all this issue is caused by a single part wearing out excessively fast, why couldn’t Rolex solve the problem by replacing it with a more robust part? Or modifying the part it connects with to offer less resistance/friction/wear? I realize there are microscopic and extremely complicated interactions between all the parts in an automatic watch, and it may not be THAT simple, (just make the part out of a higher grade metal) but Rolex has been in business for 100 years making fine timepieces, I am sure if they identified the problem as this one part, WHY can’t they come up with a permanent solution?

I was thinking exactly that, like coming up with a pivot in ceramic for example.