It’s the new oils that last longer in Rolex. Ten years if you wear them BUT you have to service them if you do.
If you don’t wear often they can go a lot longer.
If not it’s like a grinding paste gradually wearing out the parts. Keep the engine clear and it will be cheaper long run. Plus a RSC trip will make sure it comes back as new.
If you bought it new and it’s 7 years old, I’d be thinking it’s not far off one. If it’s been weekended then you have fair bit yet.
Popped in a couple of days ago. Summer sale of 50% off everything stock, as opposed to everything being made to order next door.
TBF it was all exotic croc, lizard, stuff I don’t feel very comfortable with these days.
Got to be careful if you’re bringing it into the UK, as it may need a CITES permit - even if farmed (which all the reputable houses will use).
Its a 15200 from the mid-90s IIRC, probably gets worn say 3-4 days at a time in a rotation with another watch so not worn every day but at least often.
Rolex 15200 by Robert Seymour, on Flickr
I’d be tempted to do it to get the newer synthetics oils in and set it for the next years and more.
Like anything in life, it’s a risk management gamble based on cost v likelihood.
I really struggle to like watches with a movement and sub-dials obviously designed for a more traditional case fitted to a large diameter one.
Holzkern are one of hundreds of companies attaching a notionally European identity to cheap Chinesium watches which use the cheapest possible (usually tiny) movement. For economy of scale they use the same movement across all ranges, for men and women alike.
Quite often, what looks like a chronograph will actually have time, day and date spread across the three subdials, and even have fake chrono pushers - in the worst of them, all subdials are non-functional dummies - tho’ that’s not the case in the example above, thankfully.
If you want a cheap fashion watch that lasts as long as the battery inside, they’re perfectly fine and pretty good value if you seek them out in sales and via ebay etc. At full price they’re a bit of a scam.
Indeed, the date display halfway across the dial is a real show stopper for me. It can occasionally work if the dial design is completely designed around the fact but bad design due to shoehorning a cheap movement into a watch is just a no from me.
I have a few very cheap ‘chinesium’ quartz beaters that I use for diy and gardening. They were all sub £20 and when they die I’ll do a diy battery replacement and if their still dead buy another.
Bloody nice is that Phil 
You must have quite a substantial collection by now?
I really hope @SAP7 saw it on his right wrist 48 hours earlier
I like everything about those - except the placement of the decimal point in the price.
It’s a plastic quartz watch FFS!
I’m after a new everyday beater.
My Orient Ray 2 has served me well for the last 7 years, and has got some nice Wabi Sabi, but it’s in need of a service, which isn’t really economically viable for it, and I just fancy a change.
I’ve seen a Steeldive 1957 for less than £100 delivered (inc taxes) on AliExpress:
It’s blatantly a homage/rip off of an Omega 007 Seamaster, and with all honesty I’d probably stick it on a Bond NATO if I bought it.
Just wondering about the quality of them, I’ve seen some YouTube reviews that are generally favourable. Sapphire crystal , ceramic bezel etc.
I know it’s a NH35, so will probably not be the most accurate, but can be regulated if it’s too far out for me.
I know @julian2002 (and maybe @Mrs_Maureen_OPinion ?) have had Steeldive watches so was interested in any opinions on them in general.
Yep, I have a sterile-dial (unbranded) Steeldive ‘Willard’, and it’s bloody good - better made than the sodding Seiko version since it has a sapphire crystal and zirconia-ceramic bezel, plus top notch build, bezel and rehaut actually line-up, &c.
The only thing against NH35 &seq is snobbery - as you say, they can be regulated to very decent levels. That said most of the ones I’ve had haven’t needed it…
…yet my actual Omega did! 
(…though it’s astoundingly accurate now 
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My other thought was to make a DIY Seiko NH35 based 62MAS out of AliExpress bits, but in all honesty, the bits would probably just sit in a box for weeks/months until I got around to putting it together.
Did yours come on a bracelet? If so what’s it like?
