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Re: coaxial is too new to be judged as fully fine

In Response To: coaxial is too new to be judged as fully fine ()

: Hi John

: The coax was mainly tested in laboratories and
: is too new to be judged as fully fine, it
: has passed well the laboratory tests, but
: only the over the long term test will tell
: you how good is.
: I wonder if some coax watch owners wear their
: watches when they play tennis, golf or shoot
: with a big bore gun. I would like to see how
: good wil coax keep time if it was worn under
: very rough condition up or banged up like
: some people bang their rolex.
: A thing can be judged as fine when it set the
: standard a long time ago and hasn't know a
: single problem in laboratory and real
: condition.
: Just my opinion.

I've always agreed with you that the co-axial hasn't been in mass production long enough to fully judge its long term reliability, and we still have unanswered questions regarding what the "real" expected service interval is. The only point I was trying to make is that we haven't seen a rash of co-axial failures like we have with the 33xx series, so I don't feel that we have any data to show that the co-axial is inherently flawed.