dr.kol
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Rolexes still represent about the best value on the market. If you pay retail...
In general modern Rolex is a wonderfully made watch, very well finished, great bracelets & clasps, robust and accurate. The materials are also first class. Finally, even we "do not speak about money", a Rolex is steadier cash than most of the currencies.
Does one like the design or not is purely a matter of taste. I'm just now wearing a ceramic Pepsi and it is hard to imagine a better watch for a person who swims, travels and deals all the time with people from different time zones. A perfect watch in the below 10k segment.
Best, Kari
Upright Crown
Someone told me not every Rolex has the upright Rolex Logo, and I believed that, out of 8 I only have this one on the Daytona and one in SD43. They told me I am lucky, am I? Just pure chance to get this occurrence? ...
The crown when tightened, the Rolex logo like the photo
I don't know exactly how to phrase it. Some of the crown with the Rolex logo not in this upright position. Just curious to know, why some do and some don't
Straight up
I wound it a few turns manually and it still returned to the same position. ...
I checked mine and each and every has the crown differently positioned.
On the other hand, who cares! Kari
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Rolexes still represent about the best value on the market. If you pay retail... In general modern Rolex is a wonderfully made watch, very well finished, great bracelets & clasps, robust and accurate. The materials are also first class. Finally, even we "...
I was also veeery disappointed when I noticed that my Rolex crowns are not upright
For the money they cost one would expect it!
My experience is that the crown ends always in the same position when locked
I like the fact that it's a sort of clear locked position preventing you to over turn damaging the screw/nut. That's not the case with other high end brands. But I would also appreciate Rolex's extra effort to align this end position with the logo upright...
It's sheer luck if you get an aligned crown
In fact, no brands to my knowledge aligns the crowns the correct way up. There are a couple of reasons for this. First is the Daytona use a Triplock. This has a gasket inside the crown everytime you screw it in, which compresses. Over time as the gasket w...
Awesome writeup.
People often mistake the Royal Oak for having aligned screws on the bezel which of course isnt true.
Luck of the draw based on the threading of the tube and threading of your crown
Same with the engraved casebacks of many watches, so long as the laser engraving is performed BEFORE screwing the caseback onto the watch and engraving it in its final position