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| Posted: Mon Jul 25th, 2011 05:33 pm |
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FnuSnu99 3T WIS 
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Thx joecb. Now I´m really just hoping I can cut my looses and at least get it usable again. Because as much as I would like to sell it of to get rid of it, I can´t sell something like this ... But this has been a real eye opener for me, that´s for sure. And if this was a cheap watch in the first place, I wouldn´t be so pissed of about it, but 800 Euro is not very cheap in my book at least. Btw, the lume I choose was the Gmax that he claims is the brightest he has, and longer lasting than C3 ...well ... I wonder how his not-so-long-lastin lume performs. Maybe I can sell it as a "stealth dial"? CAVEAT EMPTOR-buyer beware ... Last edited on Mon Jul 25th, 2011 05:40 pm by FnuSnu99 |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 25th, 2011 05:34 pm |
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Hammerfjord Moderator 
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joecb wrote:I Feel bad for you Rolf. You really got screwed around on this one.. and now you have to buy parts from the guy who screwed this up in the first place, by not having propper quality control. That's right and I took a phone discution with Rolf about it because I wanted to hear his words before seeing the pictures... I can't say how much I feel bad for him: If it was me, I would never want to own this watch even if it would get fully repaired as original... There's a time when a nightmare don't need to be remembered each time you need time...blah.gif
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| Posted: Mon Jul 25th, 2011 07:55 pm |
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Paxman 3T WIS 
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Rolf how did you find this jack ass relumer? Was this a recomendation from Carlos??
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| Posted: Mon Jul 25th, 2011 08:07 pm |
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Hammerfjord Moderator
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Paxman wrote:Rolf how did you find this jack ass relumer? Was this a recomendation from Carlos?? This guy been recommanded around: At WUS and a Norwegian forum....Who knows elsewhere... http://forums.watchuseek.com/f21/who-does-highest-quality-lume-work-264301.html http://www.tidssonen.no/forum/showthread.php?1943-Relume-av-urskive-anbefalinger Everybody locate him in Spain so why the fük Rolf had to send his watch in Greece??? 
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| Posted: Tue Jul 26th, 2011 03:33 am |
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FnuSnu99 3T WIS
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Paxman wrote: Rolf how did you find this jack ass relumer? Was this a recomendation from Carlos??No Mark, Carlos actually had nothing to do with the choice of relumer . That I managed completely on my own  But as William say I found several posts on "him" on several different forums. And all the pictures of his work that I´ve seen, pointed me to the conclusion that this was someone that knew what he was doing. The problem is, that the positive posts was made about Angelo "the Relumer", and the guy who raped my watch is called Dimitris it seems ...Angelo apparently closed down shop some time ago. And I guess this Dimitris just used Angelos good reputation as his own. I of course should have made more critical inquires when I saw that he was located in Greece and not Spain as I originally thought, but I thought "the relumer" was in fact "the relumer". So got properly screwed on this one, from the get go and all the way up to now. To advertise someone elses work as your own, and knowingly mislead costumers, that is just criminal ... But the next time around, I will do better research (even though I did my fare share on this one also, and on the watch itself before buying also. ) This whole thing has given me a bad taste in the mount since I opened up the watch the first time ...And looks like the taste isn´t getting any better any time soon either.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 26th, 2011 06:58 am |
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FnuSnu99 3T WIS
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Latest update (for those interested:0) Got the reply from Carlos just now, and he has offered to have me send the watch to the factory in Switzerland and have them exchange everything but the movement. In fact giving me back a brand new watch! All at his expense. While all this would not have happened in the first place had everything been good to go from the start, he has now gone quite far on this one to have matters settled imho. And he is now, no matter how one sees it, doing his very best to make the customer happy, while taking a loss himself. And that is a VERY good business idea in the first place. We have a saying here in Norway that goes "Don´t sell the bears fur until you have actually shot the bear ..." So I will wait before I blow the trumpets in joy. But this has been a learning experience for sure ... Will update when something happens. Last edited on Tue Jul 26th, 2011 07:01 am by FnuSnu99 |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 26th, 2011 08:30 am |
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Hammerfjord Moderator
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I would say that it's a very fair proposition from Carlos all in all... But it will not close you original issues: It's most like "back to start". Too bad that you had to go through all of that. 
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| Posted: Tue Jul 26th, 2011 08:36 am |
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FnuSnu99 3T WIS
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Hammerfjord wrote: I would say that it's a very fair proposition from Carlos all in all...True, but back to start is a hell of a lot better than where I stand now, that´s for sure. As I mentioned earlier, cutting my losses (but doesn´t mean in the clear completely)
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| Posted: Tue Jul 26th, 2011 08:43 am |
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Hammerfjord Moderator
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FnuSnu99 wrote:Hammerfjord wrote:I would say that it's a very fair proposition from Carlos all in all...True, but back to start is a hell of a lot better than where I stand now, that´s for sure. Agree...Best luck my friend!
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| Posted: Tue Jul 26th, 2011 10:30 am |
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oagaspar Site Founder 
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chalk this experience up to a WIS lesson, learned, Rolf....kudos to Carlos for stepping up 
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| Posted: Tue Jul 26th, 2011 10:37 am |
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Paxman 3T WIS
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Wow what a long strange trip! Big kudos to Carlos for stepping in at this point. For all intents and purposes he could easily have washed his hands of this by this point.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 26th, 2011 02:24 pm |
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FnuSnu99 3T WIS
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William, Mark and Oscar, I completely agree. BIG cudos to Carlos for giving me this option, as he quite correctly could have said, "well, you went with this option yourself ... to bad" So very happy with this, and yes, I have added this into my bag of experience (and hopefully learned a thing or two on the way) Carlos just sent me the form to fill out to the factory in Switzerland, along with the confirmation that he will eat the cost of having everything but the movement changed. So this ended with some great customer service from Carlos.
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