I have had exactly the same thoughts. My assumptions (which may be totally wrong) are that a lot of people either
- don't practice what they preach, or
- do not believe in servicing (school of 'if it tells time all is good'), or
- do not care about watches (school of 'money money money'), or
- do not actually buy watches to wear (school of 'investors'), or
- are so into buying watches (and usually servicing them), but buy at a faster rate then they can service, and the watch goes into a drawer, to be forgotten and never worn (school of 'the diseased watch collector'), or
- they are lying about 'not planning to sell the watch', and perhaps also about XX years of ownership etc.
Naturally that excludes folks who buy and are not sure if they actually like a watch, so don't want to spend that cash until they have decided not to sell. They usually say so however, as opposed to 'I wore this watch for XX years and it runs beautifully but I don't know when it was ever serviced as I never did', which for me is a big no-no. I am 'the fool' who buys to wear and services everything before it goes on the wrist because I like my watches and do care ...
The best I have read : some guy trying to flog a watch for top dollar, and his selling line is "This watch has never been serviced, but it has been polished' ...
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