I've always had a thing for Rolexes, but they're almost in Harley Davidson territory now in terms of sitting on their laurels / flogging tarted-up versions of their old stuff instead of doing something fresh and new
It doesn't use the ETA 2824 sir it uses the Seiko 8L35 the picture of which is above
But I do have many watches which use the 2824
The most expensive watch I own with that movement be it the COSC version is this new
Breitling Colt 41
Yes, sorry for my scuzzy phonography. Fit and finish very good, lovely leather strap and some nice little touches, with a local (to me) finish. It's a boutique watch, so VFM is very subjective, but no reason not to base it on a workhorse movement.I was actually asking about the Zero West, which I thought I'd clicked on the Reply link but evidently not. I would never be so gauche as to suggest that Seiko would use an ETA movement
I suspect that "fresh and new" is not part of Rolex's business model. It is not, and will never be, Patek Philippe or Jaeger LeCoultre. Its major innovations, which were indeed major innovations at the time, the waterproof watch and the practical automatic, are long in the past, so it relies largely on technical excellence of the existing product line, cosmetic improvements, bolstered by an enviably large permanent advertising campaign, designed to convince people that its products are top of the heap - which they are, in Rolex's own way of defining it. (I speak as the owner of two GMT-Masters, one bought in 1975 and which has never, ever let me down).I've always had a thing for Rolex's, but they're almost in Harley Davidson territory now in terms of sitting on their laurels / flogging tarted-up versions of their old stuff instead of doing something fresh and new
