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**feqlmwtuqx** · 07-26-2012, 02:49 PM

I would agree. You don't always have to go Swiss to get a quality item either.

In fact, Swiss lost a lot of ground to Japanese, due to just that fact. The Japs were making better stuff more cheaply. The Swiss wouldn't embrace change.

The jet rotor was just one of many designs for auto rotor weights, it was an attempt to use the benefits of the bang-bang rotors used by Omega and Rolex at the time, both of which were watchmakers nighmares. The ideal was to make the watch slimmer. The concept was simpler with less parts and did make the watch thinner but it introduced a lot more friction. In a person not physically active enough this resulted in the watch not winding up properly. http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...moveMedium.jpg

07-26-2012, 02:49 PM	#29
feqlmwtuqx Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 485 Senior Member	I would agree. You don't always have to go Swiss to get a quality item either. In fact, Swiss lost a lot of ground to Japanese, due to just that fact. The Japs were making better stuff more cheaply. The Swiss wouldn't embrace change. The jet rotor was just one of many designs for auto rotor weights, it was an attempt to use the benefits of the bang-bang rotors used by Omega and Rolex at the time, both of which were watchmakers nighmares. The ideal was to make the watch slimmer. The concept was simpler with less parts and did make the watch thinner but it introduced a lot more friction. In a person not physically active enough this resulted in the watch not winding up properly. http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...moveMedium.jpg
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