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 Posted: Wed Sep 22nd, 2010 10:03 am
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oagaspar



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 I agree Will ....you need to remember that this was in 2001 and Rolex was still producing watches without the COSC cert/chronometer writing on the dial in the Submariner....I believe it was 2007 when Rolex went all COSC chronometers....so if they sent all their movements to COSC and 15,000 failed out 100's of thousands and they did what was neccessary to make them pass I would say that is a pretty good record...especially in a watch that wasn't a chronometer graded watch....everything is marketing in some way,shape or form imho...
.... when a movement is sent for COSC grading it is only the movement that is sent in ....so anything can happen from COSC testing to final installation of that movement into a watch that could cause it to not run within specs....Rolex and some of the other true manufacture' brands that are located in and near COSC have a better chance of these movements keeping true time than some company that is relying on another manufacture that may be in another country to build their watches and keeping a COSC spec movement running true.
.....I cringe when I hear statements of "Swiss Made" when the manufacture is in HK or India....as I stated once before only 200 watches need be sent to Switzerland in any run to qualify for "Swiss Made"  after those pass the Federation guidelines the rest can be assembled anywhere( many never going to Switzerland at all because these HK manucfatures will put anything you want on a dial)....so what does that do to a COSC movement?....
....if you insist on a COSC graded watch than stick to the real watch manufacturing brands....you are going to pay more but you can rest easy that you are getting what you paid for imo....personally I have watches running well within COSC specs without the cert.
...this is another great source of info on quality...when a watch comes with this cert you can be assured it is something special because the entire watch is tested...not just the movement!

http://www.fleurier-quality.com/