Ceramic cases prone to cracking

[hurk]

http://panerai.watchprosite.com/show-forumpost/fi-717/pi-5889558/ti-865153/s-0/

Have you guys seen this?

I'm sure some of you have.
Just saw this and thought I'd share.

6 thou for repair...wow...that is at least a hundred super reps?
Ahahaha:hehehe:

 

[Luthier]

That's why I buy only SS watches.

 

[WatchKnob]

^TI, RG, Carbon wont do that either

 

[dsmdave]

That's scary. I have seen some horror stories over on the Rolex forums. I couldn't imagine what I would do if I dropped a rep on the floor let alone an expensive gen.

 

[ALE7575]

Ceramic is hard but fragile, gen and rep no exceptions
Anyway, with such a hit in a SS or Ti watch you had got a good dent too.

ALE

 

[PecMan]

mmm , that has to be painful but if u have the money to buy a gen , then u have the money to repair it

 

[cwazy1]

they actually quoted almost 9k for the repair, not 6..

thats insane.. the watch is only what? 13?

 

[ThinkBachs]

 

[mysterio]

Too bad there isn't a relatively accurate rep of this, else you could use the case from that. :lol: And 6K isn't a hundred super-reps.

 

[hurk]

True about if the guy had money to buy this then he probably has money to repair.

Either way! This is scary!!!

I get pissed at myself when i even get a little ding on my reps. If this happened to me id declare myself unsafe to handle any watches. Id need someone to put on and take off watches for me in a padded room with the watch suspended on some safety harness. hahaha

 

[ThinkBachs]

1. Wear it to all Panerai events.
2. Post it on eBay a few times
3. Swap it into a DLC case and be done with it.

 

[mt666tm]

You think that's bad, this one had a 16k repair bill if I remember correctly:

http://panerai.watchprosite.com/?show=nblog.post&ti=646806

 

[WatchKnob]

If the cases are that much (more than 50% of the msrp) what does the movement and dial cost?