Who Watches the Watchmen (Our Chit Chat Thread)

I wont dignify this post with any response other than to say comparing a ploprof to this is heresy!

i know, but while say a ploprof might not be for me personally i am jealous of someone who can pull one off, this thing has less redeeming features!

I'm with Fitz on the Ploprof, a great watch IMO.
But on the Breitling Emergency, I haveta say as someone who hit Adulthood just as they were advertised everywhere and has the added misfortune of being an AV geek!

A grail, one of those watches I am going to NEED to own at some point.

On the Graham monstrosity, I have an uncle Graham, who is short, fat, bald and has the misfortune to look like Johnny Adair whilst being Catholic and living in a very Orange wee town…

His loyal order loving neighbours love his taig arse with more Grá than I could ever scrape together for that amalgam of ugliness...

That's a really high quality looking jubilee.

That's a classy looking piece.

In truth "A little fiddle" was tongue in cheek lol.

The bracelet was an absolute mare to fit. SM said not a recommend fit as "difficult". Eventually got all four pins in the lug holes with some tricks.

Regulating was tricky. The 9015 seems to want both studs closer than other movements when adjusting beat error. Reading up on it I think perhaps the hairsprings "terminal curve" may be shorter?

Anyway, I got it where I wanted solely so my ocd regarding 0.2 beat error (which makes no diff really) is corrected.

Wondering if any of the rolex experts could give a view on whether this watch looks over polished. It looks a bit too shiny to my untrained eye just based on age, but can't really tell re lugs etc. There are others with full box and papers available on chrono at this price, but it's cheaper than other watches on watchfinder

https://www.watchfinder.ie/Rolex/Yacht-Master/16622/5262/item/389344

A bit hard to tell from the bright pictures but looks very polished. Yachtmaster is a surprisingly shiny watch anyway but crown guards and case through to the lugs look too rounded. Price looks fine for 2002 with b&p but I'd be looking for additional photos from Watchfinder before pulling the trigger.

Thanks.

I asked for pictures but I find they are very slow to deal with. They told me it has just been serviced by rolex at €700 and comes with almost 2 years warranty, which is attractive. But I feel like the numerals on the bezel, and even some of the bezel edges down by "30" or 6 of clock look very work away. Their description says they havant polished it (whereas all the other yacht masters they describe as they have polished it) but obviously they've just sourced tbst from somewhere and maybe it was aggressively polished before sale.

Also looking at this one but having contacted them it has no service history (they say their watch maker has examined it and given all the specs of how it is within tolerance etc and they say doesn't need a service).... It looks a bit less polished but I am not sure.

https://www.chrono24.co.uk/rolex/rolex-yacht-master-40--id43257609.htm

Watchfinder are fine on returns so why not but it and see, those pics are over exposed hard to see really.

Not sure if my questions belong in here or should open a specific thread, but on buying a second hand rolex, does anyone have any thoughts on serial numbers not matching up with year? Eg various online sites say a certain letter of the alphabet = a year or manufacturing..... If that's out by 2 or 3 years is that a concern?

I wouldn't mind production not equaling sale as it could be in stock for years, so only talking about a production date.

Rolex brought in random serial numbers around 2010. Before that the letter codes denoted year of production. I've been collecting son's birth year Rolex, religiously go on Z-serial as being 2nd half 2006 into 1st half 2007 and would expect sale date on papers to match this time-frame. I think this is perfectly valid for any post-2000 Rolex.

When you get into vintage or less popular models the correlation of serial number to sale-date on papers starts to drift.

While waiting lists & "preferred clients" are the norm now (particularly for sport models} it wasn't always the case. It would not have been unusual for a Rolex piece to sit on an ad's shelf for months if not years so a mis-match on production date serial and sale-date on papers would not have been unusual.

Thanks.

That makes sense and I gather the Yacht-Master is a particularly less sought after model. I know a sub is the sensible choice but I like the idea of buying something slightly different.

I thought the year of production was on the paperwork as opposed to year of sale, the sale and production not matching up wouldn't cost me a thought.

In fairness that looks a lot better and the bezel is in great shape too often that's iffy on them

Id try push towards 8k delivered and buy the c24 one