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Hi,

Black PVD / DLC stainless steel watches - cases and or bracelets - GIMMICK or VALUABLE ???

Does the coating hold up to daily use?

Any truth to the hearsay that Rolex will not service a watch with a Black PVD/DLC coating?

Black cases with non-metal straps seem more common...

Anything else to consider?

Any other watch suggestions?

For example:

Rolex Milgauss Black PVD/DLC Stainless Steel Watch 116400GV

Cartier Santos Carbon Black WSSA0039

Tag Heuer Monaco CAW2190.FC6437

Thanks for your assistance,

jwyds44

Good evening.

Anyone have hands-on experience with the Breitling Top TIme B01? The corvette sting ray model (red dial) has caught my eye, however, I'm torn between the leather strap & bracelet.

Anyone own one?

Thanks.

Scott

I am looking at selling some watches from my collection that I don’t wear (and don’t love) to make room for some new ones. Top of the list is an AP Code chronograph that I bought for access to a Royal Oak. What are the best ways to sell a watch, should I do it privately on Chronos, one of the smaller sites like Bevel or Grailzee or should I sell to a large dealer (like 1916) as I am willing to trade for a watch I like better?

I have an oris Propilot x (the skeletonized one) that i purchased about 4-5 years ago. (maybe 18 mos after they came out). I bought it pre-owned off of ebay and this was before they had the verification process they do now. I got a good deal but not a crazy good deal.. Like similar to what the lowest prices were for the same on Chrono 24.

So around a year and a half ago now it stopped working. some problem with the keyless works and you cant set it. Its not that big of a problem, i mean the watch runs otherwise, but it needs a part. I took it to several watchmakers and they said they cant get the parts, that only Oris has the parts and i guess they dont make it possible for watchmakers to order.

SO i sent it to the oris US service center (which I think is just a watchmaker, not really part of oris) and they said they cant work on the watch because its on the stolen watches list. Yikes. I had no idea, obviously.

Miraculously i managed to get ahold of the original seller who is no longer selling on ebay He was apologetic, claimed he had bought it from someone else and had no idea it was stolen. But basically he wasnt willing to do much to help nor was ebay since the transaction had occurred years earlier. I had basically no leverage.

The US service center offered to send the watch to oris but i was fearful of what would happen if they did that so i told them to send it back to me, which they did.

But now I have this watch, doesnt work, and i dont know what I can do to get it repaired.

Any ideas/suggestions as to how to proceed?

thx!