Bringing vintage Rolexes back into the fold: We’re tucked in!
By Straight-Six, published on 23 March 2010
The Prodigal Guide’s love-affair with vintage Rolexes took a slight turn for the worse recently, when Straight-Six heard a rattling sound inside his 1980 Sea-Dweller and experienced loose link-pins on his rare 1530. There was only one place to go: the Rolex dealer.
Or so we thought, as it turned out that watches older than 25-30 years are not always accepted back into the official Rolex sevice…
The torment started there and lasted for several weeks as the dealer submitted the two pieces to Rolex for their kind “consideration”. Straight-Six received a call from him just minutes ago…With his sweet, gentle voice he confirmed that both watches were completely correct, with no funny parts inside, and that the following work needed to be done:
Sea-Dweller: full internal service; crown and crown-tube to be replaced; damaged hands and “aged” bezel to be left well alone on strict client orders.
1530: full internal service; sapphire crystal to be replaced (chipped); one link to be replaced.
And that was that. Straight-Six has died and gone to Rolex heaven and will only have to fork out €1,500 for the pleasure of having his two vintage pieces purring away.
There’s no place like home, folks!
Bringing vintage Rolexes back into the fold: We’re tucked in!
The Prodigal Guide’s love-affair with vintage Rolexes took a slight turn for the worse recently, when Straight-Six heard a rattling sound inside his 1980 Sea-Dweller and experienced loose link-pins on his rare 1530. There was only one place to go: the Rolex dealer. Or so we thought, as it turned out that watches older than [...]
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8 Responses to “Bringing vintage Rolexes back into the fold: We’re tucked in!”
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Straight-Six
24 March 2010
Clearly you haven’t tried to get a 30 year-old+ Rolex serviced by their official network. The world is filled with examples of those who have been turned away…Perhaps they’d like to pipe in?
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Maybe they can’t. Maybe Rolex has got them all locked in a dungeon somewhere in the Jura mountains…
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Straight-Six
24 March 2010
Or James has them chained to http://www.timezone.com…
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[...] advice when he traded in his entire collection for two vintage Rolexes, but they were both recently declared completely kosher by a Rolex Service Centre, thank [...]
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[...] having been without his Rolex 1530 and 1665 Sea-Dweller for 12 weeks now, having been taken in for servicing by Rolex Belgium. And there’s only so many times he can wear his precious 6536-1 while awaiting his new, [...]
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[...] another one several months back), you’ll be aware of Straight-Six’s odyssey to get his vintage timepieces serviced. And while Rolex accepted to service his 1665 Sea-Dweller and tasty 1530 without complaint [...]
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The Prodigal Sub returns… « The Prodigal Guide
8 February 2011
[...] Brussels Rolex retailer, Yvan’s, for servicing. The jubilence of the Sea-Dweller and 1530 being successfully serviced and authenticated was matched only by the fear and alarm when Rolex communicated “doubts” over the Sub. Nothing [...]
The Prodigal Fool
23 March 2010
Much ado about nothing?