On Aug 28, 2006, at 1:33 PM, graywolf wrote: > I have an Alpha automatic watch, it looks like, and works like a Rolex > Explorer II. Now I have compared them side by side at a jewelers. I > would guess the Rolex costs about twice as much to make as the Alpha. > The Rolex lists for over $5000. The Alpha cost me $45. Note that the > Rolex is 100 times as expensive as the Alpha. People will pay a > premium > for the name.
I have a Rolex President day/date watch. I paid $ 35 for it about ten years ago at the Chinese market in Kuala Lumpur. It works perfectly and keeps good time, but if it ever breaks the little Chinese man I bought it from said it has a lifetime warranty, just bring it back to him! I'm guessing that these replicas are made somewhere in China. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
