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 Posted: Wed May 11th, 2011 07:51 pm
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 This has happened to us before. We had commissioned a company to do our first watch under the pretext that producing the sample wouldn't cost us a thing. We sent them our designs and drawings, the samples came out and we were not happy, at the next watch show in HK, we see the samples in someone else's booth and catalogue.

As you guys know, we have been having issue after issue with our new dive watch. After the first samples we had the same thought of just abandoning our deposit and the cases and starting afresh with another case manufacturer. If we did this, we would probably already have the watches out. But for fear of them selling the cases, we had to stick with the cases and sub-contract replacement parts even before the watches were released.

Most case factories live on relatively thin margins. Although the MOQ is about 300pc for most, they are really banking on a repeat order and the bigger brands really don't order anything below a couple of thousand.

Also, the whole definition of who designed what is vague as most brands only send in sketches and have the case factories 'design' the technical drawings. If they can sell Rolex/ Pam replica cases... what makes you think they can't do the same to other small brands.