Better yet, if I do manage to wear it out, fora few dollars, Bose will refurbish it as good as new.
Not here in the UK
All the great Bose U.S. warranties are comprehensively hand-washed over here. For example their free replacement of the thousands of partly duff mikes (sold c. 2002/3) was not implemented here.
The aircraft powered bose-x has a flimsy plastic plug, made by Lemo who deliberately do not sell this specific pin configuration within their normal circular connector range, so one cannot get just the plug, and the only way to fix a broken plug (if epoxy doesn't do it) is to buy a whole new bose-x mike + cable assembly for £135 (last time I did it). I used to think that Bose imposed this restrictive practice on Lemo in return for the business, but Lemo have done the same deal with Lightspeed whose Zulu is available in a bose-compatible aircraft powered version.
Other than the plug, the bose is reasonably robust but no way will it outlast a real Russian combine harvester (a David Clarke).