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 Posted: Thu Nov 26th, 2009 01:14 am
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bigrustypig



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 Apeogre, to answer your question and just my opinion, I would recommend a Sub or any watch with a cyclops over the date because it makes reading the date easier. When you get to the stage, like me, where you have less head hair and women don't notice you anymoresubtlelaugh.gif, the eyesight goes away fast and reading a tiny date window  will be hard without a cyclops. The other issue really is having a watch with a date. It is simply my preference to have this convenience of knowing the date whenever I have to. With so many details and numbers in my daily life, knowing the date in a flash helps tons. 

Since I try to shake and wind all my unused watches every day, having a correct date confirms to me that the watch has had its daily "workout....and the rotor and spring can relax.

Also, if you want to re-sell the watch with a date or with a cyclops, you will have a bigger secondary market if the watch has a date or date with cyclops.

I have to agree with Augang. Your AD may have erred in saying Rolex will take away the cyclops. It simply can't be perfectly and technically done. The cyclops is part of the glass dropping/forming operation of Rolex in its glass plant and erasing it is absurd, in my opinion. What he may have meant was that the Sub's glass with the cyclops MAY be retrofitted with another crystal from a Sea Dweller. But this is where your problem starts: Rolex will never accept your "modified" Sub with that cyclops-free crystal. Try putting a stainless steel Jubillee bracelet on your 2-tone DateJust and watch how quickly the pretty Rolex customer service assistant will push the watch back to you. Plain and simple: changing the original....it's a no-no.

I may be a purist on this and the only watches I MAY consider playing around with are my cheaper Seikos....but even then, I still have to muster the flair to do so.

Augang, I love your collection, amigo! hand6.gifhand6.gifhand6.gif

Hope this helps, Apeogre.;)