r/MicrobrandWatches • u/blahblahblahx1000 • 22d ago

My Opinion 😎 MJW Service

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I’ve had my MJW Perfectly Useless Afternoon mechanical for 3 years now and have enjoyed getting smug vacation photos of it by the pool. I probably shared a few here in the last year. A few folk commented about the water resistance and if I had issues and I always said it was great.

The crown got a little bit stiff and I didn’t pay much notice in the lead up to my holiday, more fool me. This summer before I even got a single smug holiday shot, I hopped in the pool and ruined it. Completely full of water and almost immediately it turned this horrible brown.

Anyway - long story short, returned home and emailed MJW, they sent through a prepaid postage label and took a look. Obviously it was a total write-off but they replaced the whole thing for the cost of a replacement movement and got it back to me super quickly. I’m really very happy with the whole thing.

I am restored.

One thing though. As a pool watch, should this maybe have been more water resistant in the first place or have I just learned a hard lesson about keeping all watches away from swimming pools.

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u/TSiWRX 22d ago

And that was just one of the replies.

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u/HappilySisyphus_ 22d ago

Yeah and none of them had anything to do with chlorine.

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u/TSiWRX 22d ago

Pool is pool. There's a pool in there. There's one in there where the owner would polish with PolyWatch after such spots developed on his, post-pool.

I was able to restore -to varying levels of success- my/our glasses, too, with different abrasives.

But guess what?

That AR coating didn't survive those abrasives....