You Never Stop Paying for a Luxury Watch...

[amanda]

My AD today told me that all manufacturers are raising repair/servicing costs down under

[atomic]

Thing that gets me is that now any mechanical wrist watch is seen as a 'luxury item' based purely on the fact it's not quartz.

Back in the days pre-dating quartz and even into teh quartz revolution, mechanical wrist watches were common cuz there was no other technology. Funny how what is old is new again, but the marketing twist that because it's mechanical, it must cost more.

Too bad. With the number of quartz watches that are tossed out and taking up space in landfills (and batteries not properly disposed of) Seiko (for example) should get off their arse and market their 5 line as a green watch.... cheap, accurate and not likely to end up in a land fill or use up toxic batteries... and movements simple and cheap enough that if it cacks out, you just replace the movement for $50 or so.

[Warren]

John that's an interesting point about the Seiko Fives, doubt it will happen though. They make too much money on the junk for the American market. The fives are marketed primarily in poor southeast Asian countries where their margins are low but they sell lots of them.