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joe6263

Post subject: How many parts in a rolex movment?

Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 7:05 am

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HI

How many parts are their in a rolex movment any may be a daytona movment but any if you know. Also how long dose it take to put a rolex movment together.

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Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 7:26 am

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The Rolex 4130 calibre (I assume this is the current Daytona movement?) apparently has 290 parts.

Not a clue who long it takes to make one, and the time spent actually working on one as opposed to the actual elapsed time will be very different I would imagine. It's not like one watchmaker works constantly on one watch from start to finish : a part made watch will have periods of down-time during the construction process as it moves through the build process.

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Post subject: Re: How many parts in a rolex movment?

Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 7:31 am

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Driver8 wrote:

Hi

Thank you so much for the answer thats the problem why I could'nt find out because their is so many processes its would be hard to work it out. But thank you for the parts info. :bow:

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Post subject: Re: How many parts in a rolex movment?

Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 7:35 am

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290 isn't actually all that many for a chronograph. The Zenith El Primero for example has around 330 parts (depending on the variant), and the Breitling B01 has 346. Obviously the Daytona doesn't have a date complication, but even so, I'd be surprised if that accounted for almost 60 components.

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Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 8:07 am

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David_Brett wrote:

Hello,
I have rolex ,
But have no idea about its part, as i never open it.

Errrr, unless you are very skilled watchmaker who is able to dismantle teh movement completely, then I think you might have more than just a little trouble counting all the parts yourself! :lol:

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Roffensian

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Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 9:07 am

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Driver8 wrote:

David_Brett wrote:

Hello,
I have rolex ,
But have no idea about its part, as i never open it.

Errrr, unless you are very skilled watchmaker who is able to dismantle teh movement completely, then I think you might have more than just a little trouble counting all the parts yourself! :lol:

But the cynic in me says that he had to post some kind of comment to give him something to edit the signature in.........

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joe6263

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Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 10:54 am

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HI
My son works as a trainee watchmaker but wants to know how many parts are in a rolex.

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Driver8

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Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 2:04 pm

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Roffensian wrote:

Driver8 wrote:

David_Brett wrote:

Hello,
I have rolex ,
But have no idea about its part, as i never open it.

Errrr, unless you are very skilled watchmaker who is able to dismantle teh movement completely, then I think you might have more than just a little trouble counting all the parts yourself! :lol:

But the cynic in me says that he had to post some kind of comment to give him something to edit the signature in.........

The thought had occurred to me too.

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