MPR:
I received a St. Moritz dive watch as a "gift" and I wanted to get everyone's opinion. Do I toss it on ebay or is it a keeper?
Thanks all.
(I'm something of a watch geek. My daily beater watch is a Rolesor Rolex Submariner I've had for 12 years. My usual dive watch is a Marathon SAR Nov 2004 contract on a red rubber band with a deployant.)
My wife's daily watch and diver is a St. Moritz Pathfinder titanium with sapphire crystal. She loves it enough that she's barely worn any other watch since getting it, and she's got some nice alternatives available. (Looks as if in her case she'll keep the St. Moritz and sell the others.)
My son has a St. Moritz M1 that flooded on a dive (I think the crown popped out for some reason - I'd checked it before we went in). He was crushed so I planned to buy him another one, but decided to send it in to see what St. Moritz could do. They replaced it under warranty, and for $24 replaced the mineral crystal with sapphire!
These are great watches. If I'd known that earlier, I'd be using one as my dive watch and the extra $600 I spent on the Marathon SAR (even though it's wonderful) could have gone to something else. Would I replace the Rolex with a St. Moritz? No, probably not. Is a new Rolesor Sub. really worth a hundred St. Moritz M1's (at what I paid for my son's watch)? Not on your Nellie.
My recommendation: use the St. Moritz and see if you can kill it or for some reason actually dislike it. In that case, flog it on the 'bay. I suspect, though, that you'll come to appreciate it. Their quartz models are bulletproof, and they use quite nice movements for their "real" (mechanical) watches. Which one did you get?