Comments:
Classical old world watchmaking meets modern transport sounds like fun and I bet you can't wait to get your watch back either.
Marc
Oooh la la!
Nice car! Is your FSD very good on those complex roads? Can it do Manhattan?
I don't let my FSD drive in the city, but my FSD is pretty good on the highways. I have Hardware 3; you're on Hardware 4. And I'm running version 12.6.4; you're probably running version 13.X.X.
Thank you!
The Cybertruck currently has FSD v14.3.2. It is spooky how good it is. As for driving in the Big Apple, I had one critical intervention and one preference intervention.
The critical intervention was on Madison Ave the truck wanted to go through a yellow light but there was not enough space on the other side of the intersection and I could tell by the cross-walk timer we would be stuck when the light turned red.
The preference one was going home, I wanted to take the upper deck of the GWB but it was taking the lower deck. Even after I used the turn signal to make it change lanes for the upper deck, it tried to get back over for the lower deck.
Other than that it performed flawlessly in Manhattan. Very polite. Navigated all the delivery vehicles, construction and pedestrians very well. Even knew to stay out of the red bus lanes until it wanted to turn right on E 56th St.
If you are still rocking 12.6.4 on HW3, you owe it to yourself to take a test drive on a HW4 vehicle with FSD v14. It feels sentient.
All I can say to my friends in Europe, is it’s difficult to even comprehend how good this technology is without trying it. It is phenomenal.
The critical intervention was on Madison Ave the truck wanted to go through a yellow light but there was not enough space on the other side of the intersection and I could tell by the cross-walk timer we would be stuck when the light turned red.
The preference one was going home, I wanted to take the upper deck of the GWB but it was taking the lower deck. Even after I used the turn signal to make it change lanes for the upper deck, it tried to get back over for the lower deck.
Other than that it performed flawlessly in Manhattan. Very polite. Navigated all the delivery vehicles, construction and pedestrians very well. Even knew to stay out of the red bus lanes until it wanted to turn right on E 56th St.
If you are still rocking 12.6.4 on HW3, you owe it to yourself to take a test drive on a HW4 vehicle with FSD v14. It feels sentient.
All I can say to my friends in Europe, is it’s difficult to even comprehend how good this technology is without trying it. It is phenomenal.
Wow!
Seems like it works fairly well in Manhattan! That's pretty impressive for a robot driver!
Please report back with the costs of the service and if they did a "good job" from what you can see!
I'm trying to see if the Vacheron Constantin Service Estimator is accurate. This website: https://csprices.vacheron-constantin.com/en/?region=USVA
SERVICE
ADDITIONAL SERVICES OR SPARE PARTS
Your Traditionelle is the 82172 model, and service should cost $870 USD plus taxes; this includes the movement service and the case waterproofness service. And if they replaced parts or had to do a case polish, those are added upon the bill.
SERVICE
- Complete Service$ 870.00
- Polishing (case only)$ 220.00
ADDITIONAL SERVICES OR SPARE PARTS
- Corrector (Gold)$ 190.00
- Labor cost (Corrector)$ 280.00
- Crown (Gold)$ 190.00
- Labor cost (Crown)$ 280.00
- Glass (Saphir)$ 285.00
- Labor cost (Glass)$ 280.00
- Hands set$ 220.00
- Labor cost (Hands set)$ 280.00
This is accurate
+tax of course.
I also ordered a new leather strap which increased the total price by about 50%.
I was having trouble winding the watch one day. The crown seemed stuck. So rather than fiddle with it, I brought it in to the NY flagship boutique and the problem has mysteriously vanished. They took it in for service anyway at my request. Before beginning the service the service center did a check on the watch and said it was operating within specification. I opted to have it done anyway because I have owned it for 5 years so it was time.
I also ordered a new leather strap which increased the total price by about 50%.
I was having trouble winding the watch one day. The crown seemed stuck. So rather than fiddle with it, I brought it in to the NY flagship boutique and the problem has mysteriously vanished. They took it in for service anyway at my request. Before beginning the service the service center did a check on the watch and said it was operating within specification. I opted to have it done anyway because I have owned it for 5 years so it was time.
That's pretty good!
I'm glad the website is accurate! $870 is really quite reasonable for a full service and a case waterproofness check! Yeah... Those $400 straps annoy me to no end! Grrrr! I might need a new strap soon myself!