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[BravoDelta 22,421]

2 hours ago, brang1 said:

everyone today expect s instantaneous results. i cannot imagine how my kids would have reacted to dial up internet 

This...is soo true!

[black263 228]

13 minutes ago, BravoDelta said:

This...is soo true!

Or loading a programme from a cassette tape, or spending hours typing out a programme from a computer magazine, only to find it crashed every time. (Magazine would usually correct their typo in the next issue)

And cheap, tinny Rolexes were pretty well all you could find.

Ah those were the days.

[Intresting 21,661]

The only $1500 reps I know of are frankens and mods by specialists with vietnam and other gen parts.   Is interesting the OP has studiously avoided answering what his $1500 rep is.    Maybe its an Aligate special with OP-mods valued at $1350 that caused the watch failure.    

[brang1 3,988]

are yes, cassettes 

3 minutes ago, black263 said:

Or loading a programme from a cassette tape, or spending hours typing out a programme from a computer magazine, only to find it crashed every time. (Magazine would usually correct their typo in the next issue)

And cheap, tinny Rolexes were pretty well all you could find.

Ah those were the days.

 

[Adit 642]

39 minutes ago, black263 said:

My watch has been with one of our non-TD repairers for 6 weeks now for a simple problem.(Date changes at midday).  I've had no contact from him and I have no intention of contacting him.  I'm happy to leave it to run its course, confident it will be sorted eventually.

Perhaps where he is based is 12 hours ahead of UK time and he can't find the fault? 

Was it an expensive rep?

[GingerApple 7,272]

41 minutes ago, black263 said:

My watch has been with one of our non-TD repairers for 6 weeks now for a simple problem.(Date changes at midday).  I've had no contact from him and I have no intention of contacting him.  I'm happy to leave it to run its course, confident it will be sorted eventually.

I think I've heard you crack this same joke about 30 times now - and it still brings a beaming smile to my face!

[black263 228]

4 hours ago, TheGingerFerret said:

I think I've heard you crack this same joke about 30 times now - and it still brings a beaming smile to my face!

Its not a bloody joke.  It really does change at midday.  Rolie is going to have to remove the hands and reset it.

Now you have to work out why this is a genuine fault.

[GingerApple 7,272]

1 hour ago, black263 said:

Its not a bloody joke.  It really does change at midday.  Rolie is going to have to remove the hands and reset it.

Now you have to work out why this is a genuine fault.

Bollocks! Or are you trying to suggest the date changes twice daily? Bollocks!!!!!

[Intresting 21,661]

1 hour ago, black263 said:

 

Now you have to work out why this is a genuine fault.

  move your hour hand 12 hours forward.   You be right.   Its genuinely your fault. 

[black263 228]

Both wrong.   Now why does my watch  change at midday and not midnight?

[GingerApple 7,272]

6 minutes ago, black263 said:

Both wrong.   Now why does my watch  change at midday and not midnight?

This is going to be even worse than your normal jokes! Warn me before you deliver the punchline so that I can have a team of surgeons on standby to stick my sides back together.

[deju 1,859]

26 minutes ago, black263 said:

Both wrong.   Now why does my watch  change at midday and not midnight?

It’s these Chinese watch movements my watch works fine till 3.59pm then it goes to 4am until 4.59am when it goes back to 5pm like nothing happened 

[ntivos 4]

8 hours ago, Adit said:

 

 

I wonder if there'll be a response? Hmm..

If we don't see one in a week or so, we should all post a complaint 

Franken Rolex with gen parts.

Thanks

[black263 228]

1 hour ago, TheGingerFerret said:

This is going to be even worse than your normal jokes! Warn me before you deliver the punchline so that I can have a team of surgeons on standby to stick my sides back together.

No punchline.  No joke.  Genuine fault that needs the hands removed and reset. I've honestly never heard of this assembly fault before.

[Rokerite 2,439]

27 minutes ago, black263 said:

No punchline.  No joke.  Genuine fault that needs the hands removed and reset. I've honestly never heard of this assembly fault before.

Think it happens when you change the date with the hands at the wrong time, the gears get mangled. Rolie told me to always advance your watch wth the hands set to 6 a.m. when setting the date. Think he said all the gears /cogs are out of the way then. Do it force of habit now.

Edited November 26, 2019 by Rokerite

[black263 228]

10 minutes ago, Rokerite said:

Think it happens when you change the date with the hands at the wrong time, the gears get mangled. Rolie told me to always advance your watch wth the hands set to 6 a.m. when setting the date. Think he said all the gears /cogs are out of the way then. Do it force of habit now.

Nothing wrong with the mechanism.  The hands have been put on wrongly, which is why Rolie is going to take them off and put them back correctly.

[black263 228]

Do sharpen up guys.  Think how I can tell whether the watch is reading 12 midnight or 12 noon.

[GingerApple 7,272]

The hands put on it the wrong order? But they shouldn't fit the pinion like that.

[black263 228]

I'll give you a clue.  It's an early Rolex and Rolie has to take all 4 hands off to sort it.

[deju 1,859]

54 minutes ago, black263 said:

Do sharpen up guys.  Think how I can tell whether the watch is reading 12 midnight or 12 noon.

If you need the lume to read the time... Midnight.

 

[Rokerite 2,439]

33 minutes ago, black263 said:

I'll give you a clue.  It's an early Rolex and Rolie has to take all 4 hands off to sort it.

I know the watch you mean, your lass got it in the raffle at the gathering, a vintage GMT iirc.

Edited November 26, 2019 by Rokerite

[black263 228]

7 minutes ago, Rokerite said:

I know the watch you mean, your lass got it in the raffle at the gathering, a vintage GMT iirc.

Correct.  And when all 4 hands point North, it's midnight and nothing happens.  When hours mins and secs point North, but the non-adjustable 24 hour hand points South to midday, the date changes over.

[GingerApple 7,272]

49 minutes ago, black263 said:

Correct.  And when all 4 hands point North, it's midnight and nothing happens.  When hours mins and secs point North, but the non-adjustable 24 hour hand points South to midday, the date changes over.

Lol, this could only happen to you! Years of making that joke and finally it comes true! The wind obviously changed direction when you were telling the joke once!

[Kernow 33]

Just bloody move time zones! 

[brang1 3,988]

14 hours ago, black263 said:

Correct.  And when all 4 hands point North, it's midnight and nothing happens.  When hours mins and secs point North, but the non-adjustable 24 hour hand points South to midday, the date changes over.

for christ sakes,  it clearly because of DAYLIGHT SAVINGS! FFS grow up you lot