Re: O&W vs Singapore Sandoz

Hardlex is Seiko's name for a mineral crystal, not sapphire. They also make
a sapphire coated glass crystal they call "Sapphlex".

http://www.seikousa.com/Faq/FaqAbout.aspx

I have no doubt that some of the better fakes coming out of the FE are of
fairly high quality, comparable or better than the O&W watches. If they
would just keep the Rolex name off the dial they'd be perfectly respectable
watches. With the fake name on them, they lose all respectability
regardless of their technical merit.

BTW, did you contact the vendor regarding the leaky O&W's? I know that
Howard Marx, the main US dealer of these watches (westcoasttime) has been a
reputable dealer for many years and I'd expect him to stand behind the
product.





"OracLeIntL" <OracleIntL@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jack Denver wrote:
I wouldn't draw any conclusions from a sample of one. If the case has
been
opened by the merchant (say to regulate the watch) and the gasket not
properly reinstalled, there goes the factory water resistance. OTOH, all
you
have to do is put a new gasket back in properly and it's restored.


"Tony Stanford" <tonystanford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 12 May 2006, at 05:37:11, OracLeIntL <OracleIntL@xxxxxxx> wrote
I own some of both, and I was not impressed with the results when I ran
some of the O&W M1's thru my waterproof watch tester,



Perhaps I wasn't as clear as I should have been.

I bought several O&W M1's. I tested three of them and all three leaked
around the crystal. Once the watch was immersed and the pressure
released, bubbles poured out from under the bezels. It is normal to
have some trapped air bubble out from under a bezel as the pressure is
released, but that should just be a few bubbles. These leaked badly

As previously mentioned, I am working up an article on counterfeit
watches. It was my intention to use the O&W gens as a "baseline" to
show the difference in how well sealed these comparatively inexpensive
factory gen watches are compared to "high end" replicas - the results
surprised me. The photographs are very clear; the general belief that
replica watches are not water resistant is completely erroneous.

As for sapphire vs mineral glass in a diving watch, I have been an avid
diver for more than thirty years and I prefer Seikos for dive watches
because they have the synthetic sapphire "hardlex" crystal that doesn't
scratch. I have never cracked a crystal, even diving amongst the coral
heads in GTMO, but a crystal that will scratch gets destroyed - not
that it makes a difference while diving as the scratches are invisible
under water.

Bill



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