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Re: Hello Georges, personally I don't feel

In Response To: Hello Georges, personally I don't feel ()

Georges, I completely agree with Mathew J.

From several experienced watchmakers I got the information, that they have been coming across many old 2892 from the seventies ticking healthily. Isn't that a success track too?

3135 is robust, yes, but the 2892 is robust too. 3135 is not thicker because of aimed robustness but rather because Rolex never changed their very conservative movement design.

Exceptional? What's an exceptional movment anyway? Scarce availability in the market? Hand-made? In this context, you are right, the 2892 is not an exceptional movement but then the 3135 certainly isn't an exceptional movement either. Please don't start with the inhouse-movement-discussion. The 1120 and the 2500 are inhouse-movements too. The fact, that Swatch sells ETA movements to third party firms simply further increases the economies of scale and decreases the production costs, thus positive for the customer again.

The coaxial 2500 is very robust, I have been scanning many forums and got throughout positive feedbacks.

Rolex sports models keep value better than DJ or DD both in steel or precious metal. The latter (DD and DJ) loose value in a short and middle term (depreciation of about 25 - 40% at least). That's what I have learnt from many ex Rolex wearers (including myself). Rolex as a brand is a myth. Good quality but extremely overpriced watches. Really overpriced. Not just a little bit.

The 3135 movement is very conservative and yes, it is very robust and a good technical achievement, but the 2892 is also robust and durable. Finally it's difficult to compare them but in terms of robustness and reliability they are both high-end. Believe it or not.

Felix.