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Hi to all members 

I was browsing online for technical manual for rolex 1570 movement and I came across this ' page ' which seems to be from a book 

Does anyone of you recognise it? 

Seems like a really informative book 

I'll attach an image of the page 

Thank you 

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13 minutes ago, oldhippy said:

Could you give us the link where you got it from?

Hi Hippy, this is the link 

It's a forum called ' rwg' however im not a member of that forum 

Thanks 

 

https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink/topic?url=https://rwg.cc/topic/160451-6mm-24-600-and-cousins-24-6000-tube-why-doesnt-it-fit/&share_tid=160451&share_fid=5666&share_type=t&link_source=app

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Its free to sign up. I suggest you sign up and ask the person who put up that photo. Knowing Rolex it might be info only to service agents. Years ago back in the late 70's Rolex were one of the first to stop supply parts to suppliers of watch parts. You had to sell there watches in order to become an agent and then they still wanted you to send the watch back to them and charge the earth for a service.  

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Hi Oldhippy  that business model is still in practice today aka  SWATCH and others.  Its that modus operandi that is the decline of the independant watch repairer,  regarding the newer watches. The Older and Vintage watches are being repaired at cost by specialists  and Hobbyists, Which is a good thing as many a good watch would have been consigned to the bin.

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7 minutes ago, watchweasol said:

Hi Oldhippy  that business model is still in practice today aka  SWATCH and others.  Its that modus operandi that is the decline of the independant watch repairer,  regarding the newer watches. The Older and Vintage watches are being repaired at cost by specialists  and Hobbyists, Which is a good thing as many a good watch would have been consigned to the bin.

Yes and thank goodness we have them. Due to poor health I had to pack it in around the late 80's. That's why I remember it well. Parts for watches were so easy to obtain in those days. I'm glad I switched to clocks back then. 

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1 hour ago, oldhippy said:

Its free to sign up. I suggest you sign up and ask the person who put up that photo. Knowing Rolex it might be info only to service agents. Years ago back in the late 70's Rolex were one of the first to stop supply parts to suppliers of watch parts. You had to sell there watches in order to become an agent and then they still wanted you to send the watch back to them and charge the earth for a service.  

Thank you for the information Hippy 

Was just curious as the book seems to have good info 

Will try and register and see what happens ?

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I think technically the answer above to the question is not correct. Then because it's mentioned I will attach the file that does have the above information but it is not where the picture above came from.

my being nitpicky is because notice the above images in color. Rolex is interesting for technical information. We have PDFs of parts lists you can go to cousins for those. there are a couple of older technical documentation's usually they can be traced back to AWCI in PDF format. Typically everything in PDF is older black and white and like the file attached not very good image quality.

Then there are the physical manuals that are printed on really nice paper in color with lots of technical detail that no one has ever scanned PDFs as far as I can tell. my guess is the image above came from one of these newer color printed manuals. If you're curious about what these look like go to eBay search for Rolex technical typically it's a seller in Italy. They definitely look very nice and unfortunately they're expensive. I'm guessing as long as you're selling the original physical documents you are not violating the copyright. 

My understanding now is everything Rolex has is online supposedly cannot be copied and we will never see any of this because no one is going to risk the wrath of Rolex if they do anything not appropriate.

ROLEX TSI HSL EDITION 1424816874_ROLEX TSIHS LEDITION.pdf

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1 hour ago, JohnR725 said:

I think technically the answer above to the question is not correct. Then because it's mentioned I will attach the file that does have the above information but it is not where the picture above came from.

my being nitpicky is because notice the above images in color. Rolex is interesting for technical information. We have PDFs of parts lists you can go to cousins for those. there are a couple of older technical documentation's usually they can be traced back to AWCI in PDF format. Typically everything in PDF is older black and white and like the file attached not very good image quality.

Then there are the physical manuals that are printed on really nice paper in color with lots of technical detail that no one has ever scanned PDFs as far as I can tell. my guess is the image above came from one of these newer color printed manuals. If you're curious about what these look like go to eBay search for Rolex technical typically it's a seller in Italy. They definitely look very nice and unfortunately they're expensive. I'm guessing as long as you're selling the original physical documents you are not violating the copyright. 

My understanding now is everything Rolex has is online supposedly cannot be copied and we will never see any of this because no one is going to risk the wrath of Rolex if they do anything not appropriate.

ROLEX TSI HSL EDITION 1424816874_ROLEX TSIHS LEDITION.pdf 1.29 MB · 8 downloads

Thank you again JohnR725. 

With swatch group restrictions on all parts and manuals,  they're getting harder and harder to find 

Thanks again 

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That's a newer TSI. I got excited when I heard a PDF was available, but not of the new version... The newer one contains info on the ceramic bezel models, which are totally different from the older sapphire crystal models (i.e. 16610). I have some exlpoded views of the newer cases and other small snips of information but not the complete TSI.

If anyone ever comes across it, I am very interested in getting a copy!

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