Re: Rusty Movado

Worst case you could buy a brand new Seiko 5 on ebay for under $40 and use
the movement from that.


"Tony Stanford" <tony_stanford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In message <433c8796$0$22591$afc38c87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, dAz
> <dazb@zipDOTcomDOTau.?.invalid> writes
>>Jack Denver wrote:
>>> BTW, the estimate they gave you was outrageous. As we have seen, this
>>> watch has a $7 movement.
>
> OK, obviously this is true, and not just of watches.
>
> So for the ordinary chap, like myself, what do we do in the following
> case? My new Seiko 7S26 100m Divers watch, say, needs some kind of major
> repair after the guarantee runs out (not likely with Japanese goods, I
> know, but that's not the point).
>
> It's probably a $20 dollar movement: the watch costs $150 new. If I send
> it any Seiko dealer, they are going to charge more than the movement is
> worth for repair, or they will charge more than the movement is worth to
> replace the movement.
>
> A non-Seiko dealer probably won't be able to buy the movement from Seiko.
>
> So what does one do not to get ripped off. (Don't buy a brand name? But
> most watches have brand names. Only the small far-Eastern makes, like
> Sandoz, with a generic movement, avoid the restrictive practices of all
> the other brand names.)
>
> Tony
>
>
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> Tony Stanford


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