Just putting it out there. I like the Orca 
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Like that 
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Think the mainspring has gone on me fuckinâ Submariner.
Off to Rolex for a-fettling it goes via the preferred retailer, which in this case is Goldsmiths in town.
Stay tuned to keep up to date with all manner of eye gouging and needless fuckery.
I called St James Service Centre and they reckon it is a 4 week turnaround these days.
Let the pantomime commence.
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If it is like @Gyroscopeâs experience:
âYour watch is fixed.â
âOh no it isnât!â
âOh yes it isâŚâ &c &c
Bin that Rolex crap and get something decent
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Yer maw
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Itâs not long if you donât want a polish; thatâs the bit that makes it months not weeks when itâs due a service.
Itâs not going to be polished or anything fancy, purely a service and to get it running again.
Be quite interesting to see if they try on anything like crystal replacement or other frippery that you hear the fanbois whining on about.
As much as I can fathom, they replace the crown and tube as standard along with the mainspring.
Weâll see.
Judging by the unending Rolex-servicing threads on TZ, they will do whatever the fuck they feel like (polish, bezel, crystal, dial, handsâŚ), they will most certainly not ask you first, but they will most certainly charge like a wounded rhino. If you get something thatâs recognisably the same watch back, and for under ÂŁ1K, youâll have done well 
Next time, I can wholeheartedly recommend Genesis Watchmaking - Duncan serviced my PO, and will only do the work you want, his comms are top notch, and people in the know recognise his work as at least as good as the official agents: unlike them he gets it right first timeâŚ
Yeah, itâll be interesting to see what happens.
I canât help but feel a lot of these watch forums are populated by total flowerpots mind you.
The level of hyperbole around servicing, Rolex in particular, leads me to believe that most are total clowns.
If they go on about replacing crystal etc, Iâll just ask them to send it back and Iâll find someone I heard about today that services them.
Iâll go in with an open mind.
Why did Dom have to go and become a fed.
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Canât disagree - the level of bulging-eyed forum hyperbole around all things Rolex is insane, though that said, I donât have any reason to disbelieve the horror stories. It does seem to be random, and of course you never hear about the majority that go well.
Been up in that London most of the week and back there tomorrow so dug this out of the drawer so as not to attract undue attention.
Forgotten how lovely cork straps are
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We often wonder why youâd drop a glamorous & lucrative career on the stage for a life spent unblocking toilets.
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Are you suggesting that shitting in a bucket in the back of a van is in some way unglamourous? 
Also: lonely housewivesâŚ
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You win this roundâŚ
Fuckers.
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