Very few people dive, actually, and those who do would laugh at the idea of wearing a mechanical watch, not to say a Rolex. They have digital diving computers telling them how long to wait at each depth.
If about time accuracy, any mechanical watch is an obsolete machine and a rep with an Asian 2824 may perform as well as a gen. Gen watches may be COSC but again, any digital watch is well above COSC, so if the drive is timekeeping, mechanical watches is the wrong choice.
Yes i understand that it is rarely used as a dive watch today. That is why I said in part of my post that is edited out I stated pretty much that just because most people today purchase it for the logo instead of its capability doesn’t mean it can’t perform. In fact, it’s performance goes hand and hand with the hype. There would be no hype if it wasn’t for the performance.
But back to your post, what is it you’re saying? That because so few people dive with the watches today, Rolex should drop their QC standards and just start making a vsf quality submariner and call it a day? Maybe hope no one actually goes diving with it?
And while the computer you mentioned might out perform Rolex’s accuracy, it will fall short of Rolex standards in many many many other ways. A few of which I listed in the original post. And that is a big part of Gen value.
I don’t know. I not trying to talk you into buying a Rolex or any watch. I’m just saying that rep and gen are not equal. This all just seems like a rationalization and I’ve seen it before. People convince themselves that their rep is just as good as a genuine and thus actually worth $12k.
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