Reply With QuotePresumably, after getting it fixed, he'll want to sell it for what it owes him.
After discovering that I had an interest in watches, an old boy in the village asked me if I could give him some idea of the value of a watch he had bought new in 1974, a Baume & Mercier dress watch (groan).
I said I would see what I could find and did come across an identical watch sold on a Rolex forum and a similar watch on Chrono24. I emailed him and suggested that £400-£500 might be achievable.
Anyway, I have had a reply in which he informs me that the watch isn't working. He has taken it into a branch of Timpson who sent it away (possibly to Baume & Mercier) and the quote for service and repair comes to £3,250!
Presumably, after getting it fixed, he'll want to sell it for what it owes him.
Seems unreasonable even if they would have to custom make some componentsOriginally Posted by mountmusic
Are you sure it wasn't £32.50?
Timpson ?? Jeeez
Included in the price is a pair of shoes reheeled, two new front door keys cut and a trohpy of your choice engraved with a max. of 20 words - they will mess up the watch, but the rest will be fine.
He should just keep it the way it is, as a memento of old times. No need for it be serviced. £3,250 is insane.
Poor man...
I would speak to Brendan (webwatchmaker) on here. He'll probably sort that at a fraction of that cost.
Had my Maurice Lacroix recently serviced by him and can highly recommend.
Yes, I have been pleased with watches that Brendan has worked on for me and have offered to effect an introduction if he does want the watch seen to.
I suspect he was interested in a valuation because the ridiculous quote from Timpson (which he obviously did query) made him think that the watch might be fairly valuable. I think he had also been talking to people who had bought Rolex watches about the same time and who now do have valuable items. Interestingly, he says he paid about £350 for the B&M in 1974 which would have certainly bought him a Submariner and possibly a Seadweller. If he had bought either of those then we wouldn't be having this conversation.
By taking a drunken shower a friend of a friend of mine turned his Patek dress watch into a WG coffin filled with horological rubble. The price quoted by PP, to transform it back to how it had been prior to his shower, was $3000.
Timpson operate SC????
M.
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