RSC regulating time/seconds

If you feel that your watch (that is still under warranty) is running too fast or slow and send it to a Rolex Service Centre specifically for that reason alone and they check the watch to ascertain if it needs to be regulated or not then is that effect…

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Sea Dweller on a strap – share photos please!

Gentlemen, I recently picked up a Sea Dweller 43mm (a gift for my son’s graduation in May) and have worn it a tiny bit. I know my son (and I, too, for that matter) generally prefer straps to bracelets. Besides Everest, I’m looking for some interesting strap options, mainly in leather or rubber. He and I have dozens and dozens of NATO’s, so we have that covered.

Please share photos of your Sea Dweller (43mm, 40mm, DSSD, vintage…) on straps! We’d love to…

Sea Dweller on a strap – share photos please!

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Brands (particularly, Tudor) being ‘precious’ about watch straps.

On Wednesday, I took my old(er) Tudor Heritage Ranger (the 41mm one) into the retailer I bought it from to have them send it for service (I’ve had it for about 8 years).

As part of that, they told me that I should (must!) remove the third-party watch strap it was on (sending in the watch-head only), because if that strap were present the Tudor service centre would:

1) refuse to service it at all; or
2) insist on destroying the non-Tudor strap; and
3) replace it with a Tudor strap they…

Brands (particularly, Tudor) being ‘precious’ about watch straps.

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126610LV Views/questions/future

the 126610LV was discontinued this year (I don’t think it will be) then the £1000 difference between the MK1 and MK2 wouldn’t be as vast, they would probably be basically the same price fairly quickly, can’t see this reference being discontinued for a…

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