Official Explorer Thread!

[roguehog]

Good price but how to get it??

Oh sorry you mean how to get it I you are in sg? Well, ask friends who are going there to get for you lor. If not, take your family, mistress etc there for holiday lor. Er... Mistress nit that great an idea haha!

[roguehog]

Good price but how to get it??

Er... Take out credit card. Pass to salesman. Take pen. Sign?

[kohym]

Wow, now we know the margin of "private dealers" lol

Sibei hoh tan easily make SGD1k per piece lol.

I beleive your friend is just a normal walk-in customer? imagine you can get even cheaper if there is some "tie up".

but having said all these, we must still thank our "private dealers" who made it possible for us to own the Rolex of our dreams and giving the local ADs a run for their $$ !!

[OceanEleven]

Friend just reported in from Austria a moment ago. X2 at sgd8200.

Good price but how to get it??

[roguehog]

Friend just reported in from Austria a moment ago. X2 at sgd8200.

[Dfive]

Just to add : Perpetual is just a Rolex term for automatic winding watch, Perrelet invented the first self winding mechanism for clocks around 1770. Later Breguet improved it and called his self winding system perpetuelles.
Now perhaps this is where Rolex got the idea to call there automatics Perpetual. ( nothing to do with date as Rolex01 said ).

Oyster Perpetual Date =
Oyster: The water resistant case .
Perpetual: The winding mechanism / rotor.
Date: The date function.
Day Date =has the day also
Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified =
Superlative: Rolex-speak... It is meaningless, except that they think that their watches are super
Chronometer Officially Certified: It's COSC Certified.

[Rolex01]

Unless u buy perpetual calendar automatic movement watch to have this function.

[Dfive]

So in this case, I have to manually adjust it every Feb, April, June, Sep and Nov?

In this case, it is damn sad. How come the sales did not explain it to me? How come a Rolex still so troublesome? Is all Rolex like this or only EX2?

Bro most automatic watches are the same... all but one Rolex are the same.

And UNLESS you pay for a sophisticated watch movement with an actual calendar function.... a complex watch to do !! or the new Rolex SkyDweller for SGD $50K as an example.

[Ray Tan]

What he said

So in this case, I have to manually adjust it every Feb, April, June, Sep and Nov?

In this case, it is damn sad. How come the sales did not explain it to me? How come a Rolex still so troublesome? Is all Rolex like this or only EX2?

[roguehog]

Hi guys,

My new ex2 date won't go from 30 to 1 today - it goes to 31. i thought it was tuned to other months which has 31 days. But when i turn the hour hand 30 days later, it still goes 31. Do I always have to do it manually? Is this normal or something is wrong?

Another thing, I dont usually wear it as it is only a weekend watch. So usually time will stop and i need to retime it when i take it out to wear. But how long does it takes to stop? Last 2 days, I wore on Sunday for the whole day. I check the watch and it stopped at 4pm on Monday. So i guess it takes about -/+ 20 hrs to stop. Is this normal or something is wrong?

Power reserve for the 216570 should be 48 hours. One way to teat it is to fully wind your watch and see when it stops.

[roguehog]

Europe as in where? Germany? Holland?

What I was told by a friend who was in Europe are Frankfurt airport and Milan .

[Dfive]

Hi Bro Dfive,

So you mean we have to adjust it on the 1st of every month if that month does not have a 31st?

Yes!!

What he said

[newbie09]

Hi Bro Dfive,

So you mean we have to adjust it on the 1st of every month if that month does not have a 31st?

Yes!!

[Ray Tan]

it ain't no special calendar date watch.... manual adjust.

Hi Bro Dfive,

So you mean we have to adjust it on the 1st of every month if that month does not have a 31st?

[icecool]

winding of explorer 2

Hi Bros,

My explorer 2 was bought on 30 july 2006. want to check the following:

(1) when winding, the free play of the crown is quite a bit. It is not as tight as the submariner that i have.
(2) after winding, when i push back the crown and screw in, it does not screw all the way in. when this happens,i have to pull the crown out again and push in properly and screw back, then it seems ok.
(3) explorer 2 can be pulled out to 3 positions. for winding, to move hour hand only, and to move all hands. thus when i pull out the crown, the find the hands inside the glass like vigourously moving.

is all this normal??

regards,
icecool