Lovely! My first real watch was a C5 Aviator mk2. I got it when i was 27 with money from my Grandmother passing. It was my first venture into mechanical watches with any link to Swiss heritage.
It’s a lovely thing. ETA movement, nice detailing on the face, and a tasteful 38mm size. Mine has been getting a lot of wrist time of late!
Not really, the movements in most rolex are agricultural at best and have no real advantage over the very nicely decorated 2824 in these pieces. What’s tragic is that in spite of similar complexity, similar materials and similar construction, rather than the £200 paid back in 2007 for this CW, Rolex would have commanded thousands.
Rolex is a fantastic exercise in marketing….take a £500 watch and somehow convince people it’s worth £8000.
I have many more expensive watches in my collection than the CW, but it’s impossible to say if any of them are actually measurably better in any way.
Certainly a basic submariner offers nothing horologicaly exciting under its solid back.
Yours is a Mk1, (inner circle on the dial )
My Mark2 has no inner circle and actually says Mark II on the face
There ia a massive difference in construction and accuracy in a Rolex movement and an ETA 2924-2 ask any watchmaker who has worked on them both.
Case finishing is also on a different level between Rolex and CW. A modern Rolex Oyster bracelet is a joy to wear.
The biggest con/crime is the manufacturers who put a 2824-2 in awatch and charge £2k for it, there are plenty out there, although probably less now that ETA are owned by Swatch and are no longer OEM to the trade. CW moved to Sellita movements after ETA were no longer available although I believe they have developed their own movement now.
Ah I prefer the mk1 then 
Let’s see how you feel about this ‘crime’ ( 
) when your Rolex costs more to service than buying a brand-new CW watch with an ETA-grade movement in it…
Oh, and while we’re exploring the mythology of Rolex’ supposedly class-leading movements, how do we explain >30% of 32XX series movements being faulty?
Love the fact that you quote a comment about ETA and then drone on with morre whataboutery viz Rolex.
I am not defending anything about Rolex but neither am I blowing smoke up the arse of ETA.
They have totally different places in the watch world.
I own both and enjoy them both but am under no illusion that they are comparable.
I’ve got not one but two of those;
I’ve somehow managed to power through the trauma and enjoy them nevertheless.
Thoughts and prayers.
That ZRC 
It’s a Rolex owner’s forum, reporting their own experiences - a group of people highly motivated to pretend everything’s going just fine.
And if you think you’re paying less than £500 to get a Rolex serviced, you’re in for a nasty surprise when that time rolls-around…
Funnily enough I don’t think that. But thanks for trying to do my thinking for me.
Always delighted to help 
Project Alaska. Want.
Not a fan of the speedmaster but that’s quite nice.
It’s nice, but I’m not a fan of “rarity”. £13k for a steel chrono …
I could definitely find a better 
use for that kind of money. Some 70s gold abomination probably.
Yes, it’s daft money for something with the regular 1861 movement.
I want but not £14k want 
Gold 🫨
Tbh this is more like it. And better finished than any Rolex
