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Posted: Sun Jul 19th, 2009 03:06 am

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Gets in through the crown....

BA1970 wrote:
I am just "shocked" at the fact that your sweat penetrated the case back of the Oyster case and eventually corroded the movement. That must have been an awful lot of sweating. I've never heard of this.

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cfoster wrote: Paxman wrote:

And please don't hide your Rolex. Wear it, use it, just don't be a nut job. To shelter it too much is a waste. When the time comes mine will go back to Rolex and come home new again. Its an heirloom piece my son will pass on to his son hopefully.

I wish I could follow your advice. I own 2 Rolex watches and can only wear them in the winter. In the summer my sweat eats the Rolex 'O' rings and then gets into the watch and rusts the movement. The last repair cost nearly $700. My watchmaker insists on only using Rolex parts so he is unwilling to try any other brand or seals. I don't want to take them to anyone else, so there is my dilemma. I wish I could wear them every day.

I have owned four Rolex watches in my life and will never part with the final two and hope to get a few more before I expire. Why, because I believe that are a bargain. A Rolex is built to last and parts are almost always available from the factory. Just try and get a part for a ten year old car from the factory and in most cases a car costs much more that a Rolex and is designed to last for about five years. Unless you die within that period, I doubt that the car you are now driving will be something to be passed down to future generations.

You don't have to buy a Rolex new, consider a pre-owned model......

Clyde

Posted: Sun Jul 19th, 2009 09:06 am

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But, isn't it a screw down crown?

cfoster wrote: Gets in through the crown....

BA1970 wrote:
I am just "shocked" at the fact that your sweat penetrated the case back of the Oyster case and eventually corroded the movement. That must have been an awful lot of sweating. I've never heard of this.

face4.gif

cfoster wrote: Paxman wrote:

And please don't hide your Rolex. Wear it, use it, just don't be a nut job. To shelter it too much is a waste. When the time comes mine will go back to Rolex and come home new again. Its an heirloom piece my son will pass on to his son hopefully.

I wish I could follow your advice. I own 2 Rolex watches and can only wear them in the winter. In the summer my sweat eats the Rolex 'O' rings and then gets into the watch and rusts the movement. The last repair cost nearly $700. My watchmaker insists on only using Rolex parts so he is unwilling to try any other brand or seals. I don't want to take them to anyone else, so there is my dilemma. I wish I could wear them every day.

I have owned four Rolex watches in my life and will never part with the final two and hope to get a few more before I expire. Why, because I believe that are a bargain. A Rolex is built to last and parts are almost always available from the factory. Just try and get a part for a ten year old car from the factory and in most cases a car costs much more that a Rolex and is designed to last for about five years. Unless you die within that period, I doubt that the car you are now driving will be something to be passed down to future generations.

You don't have to buy a Rolex new, consider a pre-owned model......

Clyde

Posted: Sun Jul 19th, 2009 10:26 am

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BA1970 wrote: But, isn't it a screw down crown?

cfoster wrote: Gets in through the crown....

BA1970 wrote:
I am just "shocked" at the fact that your sweat penetrated the case back of the Oyster case and eventually corroded the movement. That must have been an awful lot of sweating. I've never heard of this.

face4.gif

cfoster wrote: Paxman wrote:

And please don't hide your Rolex. Wear it, use it, just don't be a nut job. To shelter it too much is a waste. When the time comes mine will go back to Rolex and come home new again. Its an heirloom piece my son will pass on to his son hopefully.

I wish I could follow your advice. I own 2 Rolex watches and can only wear them in the winter. In the summer my sweat eats the Rolex 'O' rings and then gets into the watch and rusts the movement. The last repair cost nearly $700. My watchmaker insists on only using Rolex parts so he is unwilling to try any other brand or seals. I don't want to take them to anyone else, so there is my dilemma. I wish I could wear them every day.

I have owned four Rolex watches in my life and will never part with the final two and hope to get a few more before I expire. Why, because I believe that are a bargain. A Rolex is built to last and parts are almost always available from the factory. Just try and get a part for a ten year old car from the factory and in most cases a car costs much more that a Rolex and is designed to last for about five years. Unless you die within that period, I doubt that the car you are now driving will be something to be passed down to future generations.

You don't have to buy a Rolex new, consider a pre-owned model......

Clyde

I wondered about this too. Wouldn't the same be true for any watch you own Clyde? Or is this specific to Rolex? Made me wonder because I produce plenty of sweat in Summer.

Posted: Sun Jul 19th, 2009 01:53 pm

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I try to stay away from sweating ... :D I'm an "air condition gypsy".
Paxman wrote: BA1970 wrote: But, isn't it a screw down crown?

cfoster wrote: Gets in through the crown....

BA1970 wrote:
I am just "shocked" at the fact that your sweat penetrated the case back of the Oyster case and eventually corroded the movement. That must have been an awful lot of sweating. I've never heard of this.

face4.gif

cfoster wrote: Paxman wrote:

And please don't hide your Rolex. Wear it, use it, just don't be a nut job. To shelter it too much is a waste. When the time comes mine will go back to Rolex and come home new again. Its an heirloom piece my son will pass on to his son hopefully.

I wish I could follow your advice. I own 2 Rolex watches and can only wear them in the winter. In the summer my sweat eats the Rolex 'O' rings and then gets into the watch and rusts the movement. The last repair cost nearly $700. My watchmaker insists on only using Rolex parts so he is unwilling to try any other brand or seals. I don't want to take them to anyone else, so there is my dilemma. I wish I could wear them every day.

I have owned four Rolex watches in my life and will never part with the final two and hope to get a few more before I expire. Why, because I believe that are a bargain. A Rolex is built to last and parts are almost always available from the factory. Just try and get a part for a ten year old car from the factory and in most cases a car costs much more that a Rolex and is designed to last for about five years. Unless you die within that period, I doubt that the car you are now driving will be something to be passed down to future generations.

You don't have to buy a Rolex new, consider a pre-owned model......

Clyde

I wondered about this too. Wouldn't the same be true for any watch you own Clyde? Or is this specific to Rolex? Made me wonder because I produce plenty of sweat in Summer.

Posted: Sun Jul 19th, 2009 01:58 pm

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I have owned a few Rolex, and when I lived full time in S. Florida, I used to play tennis twice a week or more (not to mention golfing where you need to take 3 gloves with you)...sweat like a pig...never had a problem. It must be an individual body chemistry thing!

Posted: Sun Jul 19th, 2009 02:08 pm

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Hi Ken,

Is this your Unit from Viet Nam? http://bandidocharlies.org/

Spent some time in the US Army myself, but never got to wear a red bandana while in BDUs.

KenC wrote: I have owned a few Rolex, and when I lived full time in S. Florida, I used to play tennis twice a week or more (not to mention golfing where you need to take 3 gloves with you)...sweat like a pig...never had a problem. It must be an individual body chemistry thing!

Posted: Sun Jul 19th, 2009 02:14 pm

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BA1970 wrote: Hi Ken,

Is this your Unit from Viet Nam? KenC wrote: I have owned a few Rolex, and when I lived full time in S. Florida, I used to play tennis twice a week or more (not to mention golfing where you need to take 3 gloves with you)...sweat like a pig...never had a problem. It must be an individual body chemistry thing!

Yes it is...it is also available on http://www.bandidocharlie.com. We did a lot of things that were unconventional, like wear a distictive combat patch, paint "Bandido Charlie" along with the skull & crossed sabers on our A/CAVS...and oft times, blow a bugle during the attack.

Posted: Sun Jul 19th, 2009 02:19 pm

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Reminds me a bit of the scene in Apocalypse Now when the Air Cav came in playing music ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHjWDCX1Bdw

KenC wrote: BA1970 wrote: Hi Ken,

Is this your Unit from Viet Nam? KenC wrote: I have owned a few Rolex, and when I lived full time in S. Florida, I used to play tennis twice a week or more (not to mention golfing where you need to take 3 gloves with you)...sweat like a pig...never had a problem. It must be an individual body chemistry thing!

Yes it is...it is also available on http://www.bandidocharlie.com. We did a lot of things that were unconventional, like wear a distictive combat patch, paint "Bandido Charlie" along with the skull & crossed sabers on our A/CAVS...and oft times, blow a bugle during the attack.

Posted: Sun Jul 19th, 2009 02:27 pm

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BA1970 wrote: Reminds me a bit of the scene in Apocalypse Now when the Air Cav came in playing music ...

KenC wrote: BA1970 wrote: Hi Ken,

Is this your Unit from Viet Nam? KenC wrote: I have owned a few Rolex, and when I lived full time in S. Florida, I used to play tennis twice a week or more (not to mention golfing where you need to take 3 gloves with you)...sweat like a pig...never had a problem. It must be an individual body chemistry thing!

Yes it is...it is also available on http://www.bandidocharlie.com. We did a lot of things that were unconventional, like wear a distictive combat patch, paint "Bandido Charlie" along with the skull & crossed sabers on our A/CAVS...and oft times, blow a bugle during the attack.

Oh yeh...and flags..............we called BDU's, "fatigues"...our theory is that you aon'y gonna sneak up on the enemy with a Mech unit...so why not scare the shit out of them!

Posted: Sun Jul 19th, 2009 02:28 pm

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Ah, you were Armored Cav as oppossed to Air Cav .. My mistake ... coyote2.gif
KenC wrote: BA1970 wrote: Reminds me a bit of the scene in Apocalypse Now when the Air Cav came in playing music ...

KenC wrote: BA1970 wrote: Hi Ken,

Is this your Unit from Viet Nam? KenC wrote: I have owned a few Rolex, and when I lived full time in S. Florida, I used to play tennis twice a week or more (not to mention golfing where you need to take 3 gloves with you)...sweat like a pig...never had a problem. It must be an individual body chemistry thing!

Yes it is...it is also available on http://www.bandidocharlie.com. We did a lot of things that were unconventional, like wear a distictive combat patch, paint "Bandido Charlie" along with the skull & crossed sabers on our A/CAVS...and oft times, blow a bugle during the attack.

Oh yeh...and flags..............

Posted: Sun Jul 19th, 2009 03:30 pm

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BA1970 wrote: I try to stay away from sweating ... :D I'm an "air condition gypsy".
Paxman wrote: BA1970 wrote: But, isn't it a screw down crown?

cfoster wrote: Gets in through the crown....

BA1970 wrote:
I am just "shocked" at the fact that your sweat penetrated the case back of the Oyster case and eventually corroded the movement. That must have been an awful lot of sweating. I've never heard of this.

face4.gif

cfoster wrote: Paxman wrote:

And please don't hide your Rolex. Wear it, use it, just don't be a nut job. To shelter it too much is a waste. When the time comes mine will go back to Rolex and come home new again. Its an heirloom piece my son will pass on to his son hopefully.

I wish I could follow your advice. I own 2 Rolex watches and can only wear them in the winter. In the summer my sweat eats the Rolex 'O' rings and then gets into the watch and rusts the movement. The last repair cost nearly $700. My watchmaker insists on only using Rolex parts so he is unwilling to try any other brand or seals. I don't want to take them to anyone else, so there is my dilemma. I wish I could wear them every day.

I have owned four Rolex watches in my life and will never part with the final two and hope to get a few more before I expire. Why, because I believe that are a bargain. A Rolex is built to last and parts are almost always available from the factory. Just try and get a part for a ten year old car from the factory and in most cases a car costs much more that a Rolex and is designed to last for about five years. Unless you die within that period, I doubt that the car you are now driving will be something to be passed down to future generations.

You don't have to buy a Rolex new, consider a pre-owned model......

Clyde

I wondered about this too. Wouldn't the same be true for any watch you own Clyde? Or is this specific to Rolex? Made me wonder because I produce plenty of sweat in Summer.

Other watches are effected too but not to the same extent as Rolex. The O rings in the crown when screwed down still become a gooey mess and allow moisture through. I have also been known to eat through a stainless steel pusher on my Speedmaster on more than one occasion.. That watch is on its 3rd top pusher, 3rd crystal etc. It was my eating through watches that pushed my into collecting. The logic is that if I have a lot of choice, I wear a different watch every day and they all last linger... However, I soon really got into the hobby and now have hundreds.

Clyde

Posted: Sun Jul 19th, 2009 03:54 pm

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You can get a Rolex from about $4-7k for the majority of the popular lines within without precious metals (or plating or whatever they do when they make things gold).

Now, compare it to some other "investment grade watches" like Patek Phillipe where the Nautilus starts at $23k, and the Calatrava starts at $16k, and realizing that Rolex is in the same kind of rarified air (albeit at a mugh higher product volume), and you can see that Rolex is a value buy in that category. (And lots of watch companies in the last 10 years sprung up to take advatage of the new money in the BRIC countries where the prices *start* at $30k and go up to hundreds of thousands)

It is all about perspective. And for me, right now, a new Rolex, Patek Phillipe and so on would be a mere pipe dream. Omega would be more realistic, though for now, even that's off the radar as well until I recover form some home improvements just completed and my latest audiophile upgrades.

(Further perspective, the practical side of Rolex discussions are a little off base I think: an inexpensive quartz movement will beat the pants off of any mechanical movement in time keeping, and a rugged enough case for most wear can be had much less epxensive (i.e. G Shock, etc. Serious dive computers can be had from Suunto that will be rugged throughout a dive of nearly any realistic depth) - my conclusion is that Rolex as well as most other fine watches are jewelry - and damn fine jewelry at that!) happy1.gif

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