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de Luxe are used mostly on productions that aren't part of the standard retail collection. The company is named Zeno Watch or Zeno Watch Basel (after the location of it's HQ that is located in the city of Basel in Switzerland). The CEO Mr. Huber switches between the different styles of the logo, nobody except him will know why he uses different brand logos.
The Huber family has connections to or holds shares of many swiss manufacturers and so they get a lot of NOS (new old stock), Roamer, Doxa, Vulcain, old MRS watches (i.e. Revue, Phoenix etc.) and they also produce several different brands beside Zeno. In most cases those brands are used for promotion watches, private labels or testing purposes (Rendex, Swiss Master, Swiss Golfer as example). They also have access to large quantities of rare NOS movements, i.e. A. Schild or FHF and use them for own and ordered productions.
The Zeno brand consists of about 2000 different models and variations (without NOS) meanwhile but many of them are small scale lines only. They have a certain base retail collection that can be get in every country where you can find an official Zeno dealer. Others are either special lines made for specific markets or on order of importers and those are often not known by other distributors, so if you have doubts, ask in Switzerland directly.
As Pax mentionend before, there are huge differences, the standard retail collection has only about 10 quartz/battery driven watches, all other are mechanical. All are swiss made but not all Zenos are. A whole bunch of models is driven by Citizen/Miyota movements, mostly calibres OS10 and OS20 and those movements are Japan made. Good, reliable movements but because of the origin the wathces are not allowed to be labeled swiss made (see FHS definition of the label).
Zeno has - as most other maufacturers also - connections to Asia and gets parts from there.
The guarantee card from Zeno is always the same, so Pax, we did not add it by accident, it's the real card that belongs to the item. The US distributor used a slightly different but it's issued by them not by Zeno, all distributors are companies on their own and try to give their products are unique look sometimes.
We are supplied by Zeno Switzerland directly and are authorized to stamp the guarantee cards. Feel free to ask the HQ, they also know that we sell online.
We can also get all currently available models, so no restrictions for us.
Just a small note to Trias, please take a look at the comments on the Zeno website about the brand (and other imitations):
http://www.zeno-watch.ch/en/Warning/Imitations/body_imitations.html
I think they have made some watches for Trias in the beginning only.
Best regards,
Alex
P.S. Nice site, i've found it by accident more or less, someone hotlinked to us ;)
Last edited on Mon Jul 31st, 2006 04:10 pm by e.avery