Hello,
I have an interesting (at least I think so) old women's Benrus that I sent out for repair because it does not work but I would love to be able to wear it. Here are pictures of it before repair. I'm hoping they don't "over" repair it, actually, as I like the appearance just fine as-is. The scratches on the dial and case aren't as noticeable in real life as they look in the photos because it is actually a very small watch. You can tell from the size of my fingers in the photos, how small the watch actually is.
The band is some kind of lizard I think. I don't have a very good photo, but I'll put up what I could get. Initially it looks like wood but when you look closely, you can see the 3-dimensional scales. That and the very interesting case and crystal shape, makes me really love this watch.
I wanted to start a new thread for it, because it came up in a different thread and sort of hijacked the original post.
If anyone is curious, the cost was quoted as $250 to perform maintenance and repair on this watch (including new spring), in the New England (US) area. Another place quoted $350 but that was a very poshy, pricey jewelry store, and a third place told me $500 before even looking at it so clearly they had no interest in actually doing it. I was told it will take several weeks to a month to be done (the quote itself took over a month, probably partly because of the holiday rush), so it will be several months in total that I won't have my watch
If it looks much different when it comes back, I'll post new pictures but I'm assuming it will look mostly the same.
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I have an interesting (at least I think so) old women's Benrus that I sent out for repair because it does not work but I would love to be able to wear it. Here are pictures of it before repair. I'm hoping they don't "over" repair it, actually, as I like the appearance just fine as-is. The scratches on the dial and case aren't as noticeable in real life as they look in the photos because it is actually a very small watch. You can tell from the size of my fingers in the photos, how small the watch actually is.
The band is some kind of lizard I think. I don't have a very good photo, but I'll put up what I could get. Initially it looks like wood but when you look closely, you can see the 3-dimensional scales. That and the very interesting case and crystal shape, makes me really love this watch.
I wanted to start a new thread for it, because it came up in a different thread and sort of hijacked the original post.
If anyone is curious, the cost was quoted as $250 to perform maintenance and repair on this watch (including new spring), in the New England (US) area. Another place quoted $350 but that was a very poshy, pricey jewelry store, and a third place told me $500 before even looking at it so clearly they had no interest in actually doing it. I was told it will take several weeks to a month to be done (the quote itself took over a month, probably partly because of the holiday rush), so it will be several months in total that I won't have my watch
If it looks much different when it comes back, I'll post new pictures but I'm assuming it will look mostly the same.
