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Hello Georges, personally I don't feel

In Response To: I disagree for these reasons ()

Movement thickness alone is a the hard and fast point for durability, if anything it is a testament to ETA/Omega engineering that the 2892 can be so reliable and durable as to be compared to the 31XX series when the movement is a bit thinner.

Plus one cannot discount the inherent design flaw with the 31XX series and their thin rotor arbor and jeweled pivot, which has been known to snap on impact and or with normal wear cause irreperable damage to the movement plate itself, compared to the ball bearing system employed by Omega/ETA this is truly the achilles heel of the Rolex caliber...barring of course the substandard finish :)

: Hi

I would be inclined that one could easily say the Rolex calibers are "good but not exceptional movments" and the only reason they are priced to the moon are because of control from the supplier...

And while ETAs are used in a variety of applications I think you do Omega and Swatch a huge disservice by comparing their ETA implementation to that of a generic off the shelf base movement as the modifications Omega makes are pretty substantial...much like one would be foolish in my opinion to compare an IWC eta to a base movement as the two bear nothing of a resemblence.

As far as the coaxial is concerned the reality is that people have been using them for years now with no major gripes about the escapement itself, some modification was made to beat rate but those older revisions work just as well as the current. And the 2892 is just as time tested as the 31XX series...

As far as my having lost money Georges, I know we have done this dance before...I welcome you to check the timezone sales corner and check the prices peoples Rolex pieces are selling for, I know many who have lost quite a good deal selling...and alot who lose more than I do...sure in the past if you bought and held onto it for a lifetime and then flipped you stood to break even, but for those of us who aren't happy with the product because we feel as if we were had or want to move onto something better for less money then the quick buy and flip will always equal a loss, and in general it is more of a loss than anyone takes buying any other brand which can be had at a good healthy discount...

As always just my 2