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Originally Posted by stevej37
I hope nobody takes offence at my questions....but do any of the Rolex owners here actually wear their Rolex watches? If so...do you ever use it for telling the time?
Thanks.
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Originally Posted by masraum
That is a bit surprising.
What's the deal, once you've had those other watches, a more mundane watch just doesn't do it for you? Or has your love just worn off and now that we all have cell phones with accurate time, you just don't feel the need?
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I wore one daily for decades. My first daily driver was a Datejust that I picked up in Zurich in 1982. I had that watch until 5 or 6 years ago. My last daily driver was an Explorer 1 that I bought around 2000, give or take. It was the most accurate watch I ever owned. I kept it on my wrist 24/7 and it was adjusted so well that it neither gained or lost any significant time. It was pretty close to +- 0 seconds per day.
I used it to read the time: that was before I had a smart phone. It wasn't a status piece. One of the things that got me out of the watch hobby were all of the changes that took place from the industry trying to pander to the segment of the buying public that was all about the "look at me" aspect of watch ownership. Couldn't stand those little *******s in the watch forums, can't stand what they did to the watch industry.