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Horological Meandering: Merci mon ami!

Trust you are doing well? Best always in the best of health! BluNotte
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Horological Meandering: Lol!

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Horological Meandering: Better blue, but not crown

Hello everyone! Been awhile now before i got to being able to post here again. ( Sorry all my buddies on the respective forums! , let me still get back to the hang of all these again, yes i do apologise it is taking rather way too long for me to do these again, but do bare with me, i appreciate it a
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Rolex: Thank you for this reminder insight Marcus!

Trust that evertthing is well with you! Regards Stephen
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Rolex: Thanks for the reassuring advice Andrea!

May i ask by your datejust performing extremely well, what is it's rate accuracy over a 24 hour period that you notice? (if you are even keeping track of it?)
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Rolex: I would have thought that logically it would be the opposite? That they would run slower

This is due to the fact that the oils in the gearings gets tougher, hence they create more friction, and hence have a "braking" effect so to speak to cause the entire gear train to run "rougher" and thus slower? But then again this could be the cause of so many other factors, and you might be right
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Rolex: Ah ok! Well thats even better then, that you could get it quickly fixed!

I mean the sub that i am talking about now is already almost 3 years old, it is doing a -2 ~ -3, which as mentioned at the start is just me being me and my overly concerning self on top notch rate accuracy. We all really should though appreciate these mechanical beauties though more for what they ar
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Rolex: Oh!

Hi Echi, Thanks for sharing your experience! Ah so despite the Explorer being from since they already implemented the -2 ~ + 2 tolerance, so give or take i'd say perhaps about 2 years then all in all from the moment the 1st owner got it from the AD, up till your passing up to RSC. Hmm ok so within -
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Rolex: Merci for the reminder!

Mon ami! Of course I have NOT forgotten about the dreadful magnets surrounding me! Yes, now whilst i do not think so that my submariner has been magnetised, because it is running just slightly slower at -2 ~ -3 secs/ day now, which I know is actually NOTHING if someone is not as anal as I am, and th
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