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I feel your pain, especially when watch is brand new ...

Hi Vilit, I know from reading your previous posts that you are a serious collector/enthusiast. It's too bad that misfortune has hit your 5980 with a failure so soon after receipt. But as you know with these mechanicals bad things may happen. It may be that your problem is that the chrono minute hand just got loose and fell off and nothing else is wrong with movement. I have worn my 5980 almost daily since receipt in late April (actually 72 of the past 81 days) and as an hourly fee based consultant use both the chrono and fly-back pushers regularly with no problems. Not that my anecdotal experience makes your situation any better. I hope that when your watch is returned from Patek spa you get several years of enjoyable service.

It's interesting to observe the follow-up posts with anecdotes about poor quality control and service when one of our watches fail. But I wonder if the frequency is a higher than what "normal" manufacturing processes would expect given that we are dealing with mechanical engines. I suspect that only manufacturers have the data to prove or disprove our hypothesis and observations.

My comments are not mean to diminish Vilit's disappointment because I have had similar situations for long awaited watches. I'm just wondering whether or not the context of our collective bad experiences are a significant deviation from the norm which IMO are only marginally correlated to how much one has paid for watch.

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