Beautiful! Has a cool vintage vibe to it, especially with the silver toned dial. IMO the Seiko JDM models are some of the nicest.
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Have you had any problems with it? I bought one for my partner 7 years ago and itās been back to JLC twice; once under warranty and the 2nd time, just a month out of warranty cost me nearly Ā£1000 to fix the damn thingā¦
Hello Blythe,
Sorry to hear that. I bought that JLC in 2012 and itās been functioning perfectly since then. The problem youāre facing is quite unusual, especially for a Master Control.
You probably should write directly to JLC headquarters (client.relations.europe@jaeger-lecoultre.com and info@jaeger-lecoultre.com , write to both just to be sure). Explain clearly your recurring issues with that particular watch and Iām sure theyāll offer a satisfying solution.
Btw, are you sure that your partnerās watch was sent to Switzerland for repairing (and not to an authorized repair centre somewhere else)?
Thomas
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The watch was returned to Switzerland by Watches of Switzerland and the paperwork suggests this actually happened. I should add, the watch has been running OK for the past couple of years but I was so disappointed with the hassle and, 3 months for the repair each timeā¦
I had exactly the same thing happen to me with a JLC chronograph. First time it stopped working I was told it must have been due to me dropping it ( I hadnāt ) and cost 800 pounds to repair . It stopped working 6 months later and this time it was repaired for free. Itās been working perfectly fine for the last 2 years . It is a fine looking watch .
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Itās a sobering thought that some members have shelled out more on the repair of one watch than Iāve spent on the little blighters over a life time! Strange how a device invented simply to tell the time has become, for some, such an object of desire!
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Agreed Timmo, as i said above,
Nothing wrong with that, and many people enjoy jewellery. And when the GPS system goes down ā¦ weāll all wish we had a decent time-keeping watch.
Nothing new, it is all over the place. When you are stepping into extravagance be ready to pay the price. They sell you a BMW and then start charging you $200 or moe for s simple oil change. You get yourself a fancy NAIM sound system and you are expected to pay little fortunes to DR it or re-supply it with purer power. The only question is oneās wallet and mind comfort zones.
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i hear that dealers are asking to keep the papers too. I wont write my reply to that here. (Didnāt happen to me recently in Germany though, maybe they like paper too much)
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Some dealers have been keeping papers and, I think, the warranty cards, for a year. The aim is to try to stop new owners āflippingā for an immediate profit. However, potential customers are aware of this and accept that these items will be supplied eventually.
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I get that with a car that ādoesā considerably more (performance, handling, gizmos etc) and a hifi that delivers, at a price, considerably ābetterā sound than a cheaper variant. A watch tells the time. Period.
Many of the more desirable, expensive examples seem to have problems doing that with a degree of accuracy most of us take for granted today. I guess it probably all boils down to an exclusivity factor, as is the case with most expensive jewellery.
And jewellery is so much a matter of personal taste, some people liking bold jewellery that proclaims āmoneyā, e.g. a huge diamond in a ring that thrusts it out for all to see, others preferring classy subtlety, maybe a smaller diamond but of better quality in a unique ring designed for them, actually costing more than the big one, but that not immediately being evident to anyone other than an expert or others with the same subtlety of taste.
However the question was āwhat wristwatch, if any, does the typical Naim owner wear. As I am not a Naim owner, and clearly when I did own a Naim product I wasnāt typical, I have not said/shown what I wear - however if the people responding are typical the answer appears resoundingly to be Rolex.
The number of responders is too small to be statistcally significant.
The responders to this type of question are usually those with a keen interest in the subject and hence are probably not a representative sample of the whole community.
Nontheless, its an interesting subject, but donāt expect too many Timex owners responding !
Do NOT send a vintage Rolex to them to service; they will replace vintage parts (hands, dial), will not return the old parts, and much value will be lost. And the owner has no control over this. ONLY use an independent for vintage Rolex.
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Some people simply see a mechanical watch as a work of art that bring joy of ownership. It is not only an object that tells time.This is eloquently explained by Philippe Dufour, a unique master watchmaker in a YouTube video ā Complications sans compromisā.
Maybe you could have a peek at it even if itās in french.
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donāt expect too many Timex owners responding
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Timex ā¦ not quite but it does everything a watch should do. Keeps good time to within a few secs a month. Itās not easy to find a designer watch with such a clear face. This is my go to.
donāt expect too many Timex owners responding
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Timex ā¦ not quite but it does everything a watch should do. Keeps good time to within a few secs a month. Itās not easy to find a designer watch with such a clear face. This is my go to.
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Unless itās a ācomplicationā.
In other words, anything over and above simply showing hours and minutes.
Seconds, day, date, alarm, repeater alarm, moon phase, hourly chime, auto-update for 30 and 31 days in a month, auto update for leap years, auto-update for leap years taking into account that leap years are not every 4 years - 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200 and 2300 are not. etc. etc.
That is simply AMAZING engineering/craftsmanship and some extremely complicated watches (over 20 complications), even after all the parts are made, take over 6 months just to assemble.
A watch does not just tell the time. Period.
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If thatās what youāre after, just buy an Apple watch!
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Indeed! Some watchesā faces are so crammed with dials, hands, pointers, numbers etc that actually just telling the time must be a challenge!!
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Wearing this at the moment. I had an original 6309-7040 that I had the movement reconditioned. I gifted it to a good friend because the watch reminded me of us both. Beaten up, battle scarred but still ticking.
Might have a pic of it somewhere.
This new one wears as good as the original. love it!
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