I also love the design of these, but the service costs have so far kept me away from purchasing one.
I've always admired the OQ. Here is mine.
My son has just got this. The white gold 19019.
screenshot on pc
It feels heavier than my steel version and the bracelet is exquisite.
They seem to be quite rare.
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I also love the design of these, but the service costs have so far kept me away from purchasing one.
Both nice, but the Day-Dates are a little special :)
It's just a matter of time...
The PM Oysterquartz are stunning but I’ll have to stick with my SS for now, where did he get it from?
Lovely watches, they feel so solid. Not exactly the biggest success by Rolex (sales wise), but absolutely fabulous IMO in every other respect.
Who cares that they cost a similar price to service to a mechanical, the movement on these is just a thing of beauty & not your ordinary quartz, more like a mechanical quartz !
Are they 36mm ?
I love the case shape. Perversely I've always fancied the 1630 model which is an Automatic movement in the OQ case.
I love the OysterQuartz models, had 1 or 2 myself.
The PM models are a bit rarer, WG even rarer. I think they fantastic and would love one one day.
James
These are gorgeous watches and hold a lot more interest for me over a more commonly seen mechanical datejust, would love one.
It turns out that the OQ movements were by far the most costly for the company to produce at the time, too. It’s obvious that a lot of effort went into their manufacture and finishing:
It’s built quite similarly to their mechanical movements, but the power flow is reversed; a stepper motor drives the geartrain using a pallet fork, instead of the geartrain driving the escapement using tension supplied by the mainspring.
The distinctive metallic “snick-snack” of the OQ sounds very mechanical because it is, and the seconds hand moves in a very precise and bounce-free way that’s unique to these underappreciated watches.
The drive mechanism for the 5035/5055 is very similar to the design of a traditional mechanical watch escapement. The pulse motor drives a pallet fork which in turn moves a pallet wheel. This wheel drives the second hand at a 1:1 ratio with one tick per second. The hour and minute hands are driven off this pallet wheel. The loud tick you hear every second are the pallets engaging the pallet wheel.
The white gold 19019 is exceptionally rare.
I have had perhaps half a dozen of the yellow gold 19018 through the years, typically with sloppy bracelets.
A 19019 in the condition which that one appears to be should increasingly be a treasured piece. Bravo!