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How not to choose a lemon?

Hai, I was just wondering how can one avoid choosing a substandard lux watch. For example, do you choose a watch from the display counter or demand that they take anew watch from the vault?

Besides inspecting the bezel/ braclet for scratches, can we "test" the movements to see if it is within COSC standard?

Or is there nothing we can do and just "pray" that the waych that we choose doesn't turn out to be a lemon? (risky business isn't it...looking at the money we put in)

I know that accuracy is not that important in mechanical watches (otherwise get a quartz), but still it shoud be reasonably functional...ie. able to tell the time fairly accurately without needing to adjust it every week/ day? By the way how frequent do you adjust your mechanical watch?

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How not to choose a lemon?

Re: How not to choose a lemon?

I think the "lemon" isn't as frequent as it seems

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0 wallclock secs ( 0.18 usr + 0.02 sys = 0.20 CPU)