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It obviously means more to you than maybe you originally said. Put it away and wait until you have the pennies to sort it out, even if it's a year down the line!! You won't find a better watch for £500 so if you look at it that way and have a bit of patience it'll all work out!

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Currently:
Avenger Skyland(Black)
Super Avenger(White)

Moved on:
Montbrillant Legende(Silver)
Panerai 312
SOHC 125th Ann. LE(Silver)
Navitimer World(Pearl)
Panerai 441

they will probably bt a sq movement in it and put a new face on it as well so its a wise investment

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Yip, that badboy will be as good as new with £500 spent on it!

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Currently:
Avenger Skyland(Black)
Super Avenger(White)

Moved on:
Montbrillant Legende(Silver)
Panerai 312
SOHC 125th Ann. LE(Silver)
Navitimer World(Pearl)
Panerai 441

Oooohh!! Good line mate! My Mum mentioned 'patience' a few million times! It would look so much nicer than my current very effective and very practical £200 Citizen EcoDrive. There would be no months of grief, phone calls and letter writing if I nudged this baby's winder against the shampoo bottle in the shower...

Dont want to go over old ground, but if WOS and BUK would have told me my Aerospace died as it was old I could have taken that OK. However, they just told me it was still 100% water resistant. I remain perplexed

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I won't apologise for trying to make you feel better and I won't bother posting on this thread again as it's all getting a bit boring now. You seem to be looking for someone to take the bait, I'll leave that for someone else!

Cheers

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Currently:
Avenger Skyland(Black)
Super Avenger(White)

Moved on:
Montbrillant Legende(Silver)
Panerai 312
SOHC 125th Ann. LE(Silver)
Navitimer World(Pearl)
Panerai 441

I really really don't know what you mean by that ('bait' ) ,but thanks for the positive help. Appreciated.

Sorry if you feel I've wasted your time and the appreciated input since it is now going in the drawer till funds permit fixing...

That is the end as far as I'm concerned however perplexed I may be by certain things/attitiudes. So thanks to all that maybe took an initial pinch of salt and helped an owner in deep distress

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Basically, it is safe to say that no one actually guarantees waterresistance on a high grade watch. If you read the manual on any of them they tell you to have it checked annually. Now if you checked it and it was found to leak, then what would have happend if you actually swam with it on? You are correct if you said you would be screwed. If a watch has a two year warranty and you didn't check it at the end of year one, you are basically screwed if the watch leaks. In fact, I would say you are screwed if the watch leaks at any time you wear it in water and it leaks. You will be totally at the mercy of these guys. Note to self: don't wear an expensive watch when swimming, even a dive watch that you can't afford to have fixed. Better to buy a Citizen dive watch for 150 and throw it away if it leaks. Even better yet, don't bother with a dive watch for diving. You don't need one with modern dive computers.

Good advice mate. The only reason I ever wore it was as it was safer than hiding it in my shoe on the beach whilst I took a dip! Hard lesson learnt & thanks for pointing it out.

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As we say in the "silent service": nothing is waterproof!

GMY

I would never have thought to wear an Aerospace while swimming. But it should not have leaked. best of luck.

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Hmmmm.... DieselE says it's circa 2000 but I don't think there was any mention of recorded service performed on the watch. A ten year old watch which has not had a hermeticity test in the last couple of years may or may not be prone to water ingress even if the crown was not moved at all when the piece was subjected to moisture. While sympathetic to our "victim", I am not certain at all that any manufacturor would repair the watch gratis and even less certain that they should, particularly not under warranty of any type. No flames please. Just my .02 worth...
Best,
Ron

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what? it's a 100m water resistant!

of course if you use swimming you should check every year the hermetecity test but then of course that you can use it swimming and snorkeling.

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That's true but only as long as the crown isn't operated. Given that the crown can't be locked on an Aerospace, I would never swim with mine due to fear of bumping the crown.

but of course! i suppose that nobody operate ANY crowns or chrono pushers under water.

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Breitling Antares B10047
Breitling Chronomat B13050
Breitling Chronomat A13050.1 - pilot bracelet
Breitling Chronomat Blackbird A13050.1 - serie spéciale
Breitling Avenger Seawolf E17370
Breitling Chronomat EVO A13356 - pilot bracelet

That's the idea, yes. Obviously the exceptions are water resistant pushpieces of the SWChrono or M1, but no crown should ever be operated underwater - accidental or otherwise.

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