Rolex repair

[Der Induktionator]

Originally Posted by UrbanLegends101

...I have to admit, it did feel good, but not 12K worth of good...

chf$12K is part of the reason I don't care for Rolexes: To me they're just too far up the price curve into the area of paying a lot of money for something that isn't important to me.
I have a big heavy stainless Tag Heuer automatic chronograph, cost about like a Gibson LesPaul. Bought it in 2002 (nearly 10 years now, wow) and have worn it every day other than a couple times I sent it in for clean&adjustment.

I like the weight. I tried a couple titanium Omega, I like how they look too, but I like the 180g block of stainless. A 180g block of gold would be around chf$10,000 today, so if you buy a watch really made of solid gold, that's what you're paying for.

[Floater]

My last self-winding watch (not a Rolex, though) was electric.

[Der Induktionator]

How does that work?

With a automatic, there's a swinging weight driven by waving your arm around that winds the main spring, and then something in the ratchet machanism that prevents overwinding. You can also wind it by hand, but I never have.