Re: WATCH COLLECTORS .... MAY 2017

JavaQueen · ‎03-09-2010

Happy Memoiral Day, all

LavJ: Yes live and learn! We started out over a decade ago. Many changes. It was always a chance.

I never had a movement give out on me either and piror to my wading into the waters of Invicta, I had never spent more than $60 on a watch. You know what? They are still OK.

Whatever Bulova and Citizen did, it worked.(BTW, Bulova is now part of Citizen.) Peo. ple have problems with Rolexes and Omegas. And Michele. I know because I would take my watches into Tourneau's repair department.

I have always believed that outsourcing wasn't such a great thing. It provides cheaper products for the consumer, but I really think that quality control suffers. Renato was heavily into that outsourcing model. As is Invicta. And probably other watch companies. I think Citizen and Seiko outsource, but maintain tight control over production, even if they aren't Swiss.

I worked firsthand with outsourcers and I know that quaity suffers. It's all about the bottom line. Not only that, you probably didn't forsee buying so many watches, so that would definitely would raise your chances of running into problem watches.

We all learned a lot since those first purchases and it's a good thing to share what we've learned so that others don't have to go the through the same thing.

Lavenderjunkie · ‎03-10-2010

Java: " you probably didn't forsee buying so many watches, so that would definitely would raise your chances of running into problem watches" Very true... if the failure rate is 3% and you own 1 or 2 watches, chances are your watches might be just fine. But when you own 100 watches, statistics say you will have 3 failures.

I dug out some old paperwork and I'll try to make some calls to SLB this week. They are the company that did the Renato service last time under my warranty. I wonder if the phone # still works and if they are still doing the service. I couldn't find anything online when I searched.