Assumes facts not in evidence, Your Honor.
Ah, but there is precedent. WatchCo Seamaster 300s have been sent to Omega and they were rejected..... possibly even confiscated - although I forget the exact details. Confiscated might have been in an airport or in Customs of another country maybe? There were threads about this all over the watch forums a few years back.
Rolex would afford you no such mercy.
They'd take your watch and send you a letter telling to go fcuk yourself.
Someone will eventually go postal on Rolex...
I don't know about you but these sorts of practices have kept me from buying Rolex. That, and their watches are ugly. ;-)
I much prefer Omega.
Tom
I can respect that. For most models, I prefer Rolex. But here I am on the Omega Forum. Better crowd here with more interesting things to say than the TRF people.
Yes! Perfect summation of my thoughts.
Rolex makes a sweet watch
TRF is full of douchebags and dickheads. And, then, there's the bad guys.
Ah, but there is precedent. WatchCo Seamaster 300s have been sent to Omega and they were rejected..... possibly even confiscated - although I forget the exact details. Confiscated might have been in an airport or in Customs of another country maybe? There were threads about this all over the watch forums a few years back.
I just offered an alternative to the pejorative "franken" As far as I'm aware, WatchCo are completely open about the provenance of their product, so buyers can make an informed choice.
Who is to say that in say 20+ years, a WatchCo "insert favoured description here" might not have some collector status?
I have a watchco 300 which I bought some years back from watchco but I also have several Speedmasters which I have built / put together myself from genuine Omega parts, future value might not be great for the Speedmasters but I'll enjoy wearing them for the next several years and I'm sure they wont be worth less than what I paid for all the parts 😁
I enjoy working on and modifying watches, the enjoyment of that and wearing them is worth more to me than their future value 👍
I think if a guy named "Boris" from Croatia, or Luigi from Italy, or john Su from HK issued a watch identical in every way to the Watchco products everyone would freak out. The watch would definitely be a "franken" or a "replica" or a fake made with original parts. The price would be unacceptable and the seller suspect.
However Watchco has somehow managed to make themselves a legitimate franken house. It is perceived as cool and legitimate and in a way carries the brand value of Watchco over the Omega brand.
I would say a big drawback even if you don't "care" about value is that when the SwatchOmega parts crisis hits, you'll be sending your watch to Omega to get serviced and they won't service a franken.
Thus rendering your watch a parts watch.
Assembled from parts and disassembled for parts once again.
These are the WatchCos of our lives.
You are 100% wrong about "everyone would freak out" because if you think Watchco are the only people doing this, you are very mistaken. It is not a fake, or a replica, but a franken watch.
Everyone calls these watches vintage movements with modern replacement parts "Watchco" because they were the company that started it, and it's shorthand for any watch made this way.
As I've noted above, Omega considers these to be legitimate watches...
Cheers, Al
The term Franken is not a negative one, and it does not matter if the company or individuals are open about their practices. If you assemble a watch from parts you are creating a Franken watch. Period. No need for another term to use when there is a perfectly good one already at play.
