Chip on the shoulder - Rolex Vrs Omega

[XJSJohn]

johnfm said:

Vesuvius 996 said:

hutchingsp said:

A lot of people knock Rolex because of the mass production and image but the one thing that I don't think can be denied is that they make a product that, with a little TLC should be going long after the owner is six feet under, and that loses relatively little value. I remember reading once that wherever you are in the world a Rolex basically equals "emergency cash".

The image problem is as with any desirable product.

The moment people buy them simply because they are desirable, those that buy them because they genuinely like them and respect the heritage/engineering are tarred with the same brush as those that buy them simply because David Beckham (or whoever) wears one.

One of the reasons I have one.

No matter what disaster befalls me, I can always walk into a watch dealer and spring £3,000 cash in ten minutes if I need it.

Yeah, but you have one of those ickky Green ones....more £300 than £3000, surely...

now now children, this was to air your differences Omega verses Rolex, not to take the piss out of Veseuvius's choice of rolex model... start your own thread for that

You do make a valid point though, a rolex does make for handy emergancy money!!

and you can pick up loads of good second hand ones for just that reason in any Maccau pawn shop!!! (its all the Japanese and Chinese guys that have gambled everything and now need to pay thier marker to get thier passport back )

[anonymous-user]

Winton said:

m.lovell said:

Also the movement that was in the original speed master was of a different calibre movement, it had the cal 321 in it and all the later one I think after around 1965 had a cal 861 movement. I dont think this was ever test for NASA.

The .861 was tested by Nasa, i think, and tested more stringently than was the .321. It was the .861 that beat a number of other manufacturers.

The .321 was the only speedmaster professional worn on the moon. Nasa tested the .321 first and then had a stock of them for all the moon missions.

The .861 was then tested in the 70's and used by Nasa for manned spaceflight. The .863 in the display back models has a couple of diferences to the .861 like a different brake. The .863 is the only one not tested by NASA.

[m.lovell]

So it was the movement after the 861 that was never tested, thanks guys.

[anonymous-user]

m.lovell said:

So it was the movement after the 861 that was never tested, thanks guys.

The .863 is only in the display back models, it just has cosmetic differences as the owner can see the movement.