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 Posted: Fri May 13th, 2011 09:37 am
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joecb



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I think what Movas stated about grades of components and use of factories for cases and who does final assembly goes to the heart of the matter.

It all comes down to specific company and how honest they are in their marketing.
I agree that there are very good far east companies that are producing cases and movements that can rival swiss components, and their are Asian manufacturers who have very good quality control, and do very good assembly, but they are pricing very close to swiss costs for the same work.
But when you have a company that practices deception in order to win prestige and charge higher "Swiss" prices" As Will stated "We feel Robbed".

Will's example of Invicta is the classic greed company. I believe in the begining they were practiceing real ethics and when marketing a particular watch as "Swiss Made" or labeled "Swiss" they really were swiss made and the quality showed through, even though I'm sure some parts were really asian built. But greed set in and we all know where Inivcta went...
I still own several Invictas that I will keep, which I feel are the last of their true swiss built watches, and they have been trouble free and still look great after six or seven years.
I think we as consumers are just looking for honesty from the manufacturer, and I've seen alot of micro brand owners who are totaly up front about where their watches are made and do put tremendous effort into overseeing the quality of their watches before selling them, this is integrity.