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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (243429)3/28/2002 3:48:43 PM
From: DavesM  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
J.F.

I love watches. I have a Timex mechanical watch that I purchased new about 10 years ago. I didn't realize that mechanicals have been dropped.

I cannot dispute that quartz watches are more accurate than mechanicals. That is not the point of owning a mechanical watch. Owning a mechanical watch, is like owning a shirt made of cotton, rather than cotton-polyester blend. Also, such a watch, due to its cost, is repaired, rather than disposed of. Why Rolex has such status, is another matter. Rolex has managed their brand in a manner, that no other watch manufacturer has been able to do.

BTW, Rolex often not considered the "top of the heap", as far as fine watches go. But they do make a quartz watch that I understand, has circuitry that compensates for temperature changes - that effect the oscillations of the quartz crystal.
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