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Reasonable Life

indianaj618

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For high quality reps like VSF/Clone/3KF with clone movements or very similar quality, how long should they last? — this is assuming good care and maintenance.
 

aguida

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The issue is not good care and maintenance but the very variable level of quality at the factory. Is not unusual with watches I had over 5 years stil going strong without any service. On the other hand I had many that stopped working after a couple of weeks and even arrives broken.

So with some luck, and most of the time, you can enjoy your watch for many years.
 

abat

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I have some nearly 20 year old reps still going strong. On the other hand I've had various fail, markers fall off the dial, rubber straps perish etc.
 

TheBigJS

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You're not going to get a good idea with one rep, but I've been buying and selling for 2 1/2 years, probably 50-60 reps totally through my hands.
Two needed a service to fix an issue (I only got one fixed, I sold the other needing fixing).
Two were less than perfect but worked (issue disclosed when I sold them).
One has a tiny issue but I can live with it (if you alter it the wrong way the minute and hour hands end up way out of alignment).

Oh, and I had the tube trimmed to remove the screw in crown on my VSF Seamaster when it stripped it's crown thread, done for free by Reece @fixwatch.co.uk 😎
 
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graham5000

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I have multiple watches from 10 years ago that are running fine with no service or intervention.

only one that bit the dust was an aqua terra rep that I dropped and the hands fell off, so my bad
 
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