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2 May 2015, 06:26 AM | #1 |
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$700 service for a quartz?
I took my Chrono sextant (quartz movement) to my local watch shot for a full service and they told me the watch was very complicated and it would cost $700 for the full service. My Rolex with automatic movement service from the same shop was $500. Does that seem high to anyone else?
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3 May 2015, 06:22 AM | #2 |
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Yes. May want to get a second opinion.
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3 May 2015, 08:46 AM | #3 |
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Most odd indeed. Can't understand that at all.
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3 May 2015, 09:01 AM | #4 |
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Just needs a new battery. Do it yourself.
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Sometimes changing the battery requires the entire movement to be removed. Depends on the watch.
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5 May 2015, 05:30 AM | #6 |
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depends what need to be done to the watch for a full service. When I had a Montbrillant Olympus service through Breitling, it was close to $1,000. Was losing some time but nothing serious wrong with it.
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6 May 2015, 04:37 AM | #7 |
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Thanks for your responses. I am taking it in is because the stopwatch hand no longer goes back to 12 o'clock when it is resets. The watch is a bit beat up too so having it cleaned and polished.
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Check out the service video on Breitlings website . . . if your going to spend the money, send it to Breitling USA.
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I just sent my Navitimer Olympus to Breitling USA for a complete service. They quoted me $720 including shipping and this watch has a stopwatch function and an annual calendar function, plus a moonphase function. They quoted me 6-8 weeks for the service time. Fortunately, I've got about 10 other watches to choose from while I'm waiting for that one to come home.
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Breitling = expensive service
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when they see its Breitling, Rolex or other high end brands .. the price went up. Even only to taking out 1 link.
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2 August 2015, 01:37 PM | #13 |
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700 for a Quartz sounds outrageous ,, I would think something along the lines of 150$ change up all the gaskets and work .. 250$ max
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Seems pricey to me as well, took my mothers PP 24 in for a new battery and service and they charged the same...now I remember my Breitling was pretty pricey to do an overhaul on but it was a chrono with GMT...I'd seek a secondary opinion as well.
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I've heard some high end brands just replace the quartz movement entirely. I want to say Cartier does that on their quartz movements when they break.
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I think that is crazy to charge that for a quartz movement. What exactly are they taking apart?
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iirc sextons flyback chrono had quartz and automatic movement. quartz for main time keeping and automatic flyback chrono.
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12 December 2015, 06:52 PM | #19 |
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Really ? I've never heard of a dual quartz/automatic movement before
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You could buy a whole watch for not much more, especially after getting the 20% VAT deducted – https://www.chrono24.co.uk/breitling...-id3632656.htm
http://www.passionchrono.com/en/fred...guet-1270.html http://www.cmcworldspareparts.com/fr...rtier-053.html http://oldswisswatches.com/Spares/Fr..._Movements.htm I’ll leave you to use the rest of the search results to see what else you can find. |
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What you guys dont realize there are quite a lot of mechanical parts in any analog quartz watch.Take say the Rolex OQ the drive train is exactly the same as used in the cal 3035 mechanical watches.And the quartz movement was more expensive than the mechanical movement to replace back then.Its not a digital movement like say on the LCD range of quartz watches. On analog quartz the mainspring is the battery the escapement quartz the rest all mechanical but agree like all so called high end watches costly to service.
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Agreed 100% ...ridiculous high price level for a quartz.
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