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 Posted: Fri May 13th, 2011 07:52 am
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Hammerfjord



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About this one Movas:I was just in a factory in HK assembling watches that were 'swiss made'. What they did was sent the parts to switzerland to be put together and 'certified', then shipped back to HK to reassemble as the assembly there was bad and only more for show and certification.
Bad assembly in Switzerland so sent to Hong-Kong for a better one??? In wich place did they ask to have them watches asembled in Switzerland? A carpenter office who took 10$ a watch?
Most of the time, the assembly is in fact not so good in Hong-Kong: That's a fact that I verified and that's why I'm not anymore into Asian-assembled micro-brands.
Ask Invicta what made them a bad reputation on the market: The famous assembly in Asia with hands and dials loosing outbravo.gif
So offcourse, if you want a cheap case, with cheap parts, cheaply mounted and certified "Swiss" that's maybe the way to go as you say: Hong-Kong.
The only point here, one more time, is: Is the watch coming back cheap to us???
If it does: We understand without beeing rocket-ingeneers that it's all Asian components. No big mistery there with the "Swiss-Made" laws running actualy.
Or is it coming to 1500-2500$ to us because it wears a "Swiss-Made" and a konwn brand label?
Like Walca Far East and them sweet blue fabric?

It's all coming down to the price amigo: That's where we feel robed or not...Swiss-Made or not sadely.