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 Posted: Sat May 20th, 2006 10:38 am
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KenC



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 Interestingly enough the design was sold, not to Movado, but to Zenith which owned Movado at the time.  It wasn't until 1984 that Movado (now an American watch company) was bought out by the North America Watch Corporation which, in a period of 3 short years boosted Movado sales by 1500% from $4 Million to $60 Million.

 

O.A. Gaspar wrote:
KenC wrote:
So Much for being a Hard One....Congrats Ken....RIGHT !it's hard to belive that the desingner N.G Horwitt actually had a hard Time selling his design to anyone until Movado ended up buying it shortly after the display and thus becoming the "Museum Watch" :D  OOPS!  :D  Vacheron & Constantin and LeCoultre............3 prototypes were made!