IKE
Well-known Member
- Location
- Oklahoma....U.S.A.
While working in Indonesia back in about 1980 or so I waltzed in the Rolex Center in Singapore and bought mama and I both a brand new gold & silver, date just, with Jubliee band, his and hers Rolex watches.......mine has sat in the safe deposit box, in a blue Crown Royal bag, for at least twenty five years but mama keeps hers here in the house and wears it occasionally when she gets all dolled up and wants to 'put on the dog'.
Yesterday morning I dropped off a shoe of mama's to be fixed and three doors down was a jewelry store that carried Rolex's and having nothing to do I waddled my big derriere in to have a look around......new Rolex's like mine are running about $6300.00 or so and the jeweler estimated that back in 1980 mine was probably going for around $2200.00 or thereabouts.
The jeweler said that mine probably needs to be sent to Dallas to be serviced because the synthetic oil Rolex uses can / may have hardened in the past twenty four years.....I sent mama's to the Rolex Center in Dallas for routine service back in 2004 and the bill was $395.00 plus Certified Mail both ways, the cost for the same routine service today is $800.00
Now that I've retired and won't have a tendency to bang it up while wearing it mama has been hounding me to get the watch out the deposit box and wear it but I may have only worn a watch one or two times since retiring 4-2015 and unless I pushed myself to do so I may not wear the Rolex even if it was sitting here at home.
The jeweler did say that used and depending on condition, mine could probably easily fetch close to what I paid for it back in 1980.
Sooooo with no heirs, do I spend the bucks to have it serviced and wear it ?......sell it ?......or just continue to let it sit and let the State of Okla. worry about what to do with it once mama and I have both kicked the bucket ?
Yesterday morning I dropped off a shoe of mama's to be fixed and three doors down was a jewelry store that carried Rolex's and having nothing to do I waddled my big derriere in to have a look around......new Rolex's like mine are running about $6300.00 or so and the jeweler estimated that back in 1980 mine was probably going for around $2200.00 or thereabouts.
The jeweler said that mine probably needs to be sent to Dallas to be serviced because the synthetic oil Rolex uses can / may have hardened in the past twenty four years.....I sent mama's to the Rolex Center in Dallas for routine service back in 2004 and the bill was $395.00 plus Certified Mail both ways, the cost for the same routine service today is $800.00
Now that I've retired and won't have a tendency to bang it up while wearing it mama has been hounding me to get the watch out the deposit box and wear it but I may have only worn a watch one or two times since retiring 4-2015 and unless I pushed myself to do so I may not wear the Rolex even if it was sitting here at home.
The jeweler did say that used and depending on condition, mine could probably easily fetch close to what I paid for it back in 1980.
Sooooo with no heirs, do I spend the bucks to have it serviced and wear it ?......sell it ?......or just continue to let it sit and let the State of Okla. worry about what to do with it once mama and I have both kicked the bucket ?
If I were you Ike, I'd just get a couple of offers and sell it to the highest bidder, I would have a problem with spending money to have it serviced, but that's just me.
