Horological Meandering

Last week a 5 minute presentation caught my attention on a television shopping channel. It was from a brand that I've never heard of and the spokesman, while pleasant, was overembellishing some claims. Constantin Weisz is similar to many television brands...  

First of all congrats for the great and comprehensive review. This is another proof that when chinese brands want to propose a decent product, they can do it. But it is also another proof: their ability to take advantage of any favourable context. Of cour... 

outsourcing to a Chinese Manufacture which is worse imho. "designed in Germany, made in China" I'm hoping for "designed in China, made in China" soon. Cheers, Mike

I've seen them on that Shopping Channel, some of their models are Ok, although I'm not a big fan of the chinese movements that one is nicely done Its a copy of the swiss unitas 6497. They had a TTV aka Todays Top Value a couple weeks ago, that they said h... 

gaps being formed. The high end watches got really high end...astronomically high end. The middle moved higher too ( i.e Concord, ML, Baume and Mecier...) The lower end got really diversified. As a result competition drove prices down. I like the fact tha... 

When I got into watch collecting I would buy based on looks and not price although looks do play a role. But now when I buy a watch, I take my time.

The price of high end haute horlogerie is such that you would probaly need a watchbox of over 200 such pieces before you could have had that grail. That's a lot of "restraint" required. If you're interested in complex mechanical machines then the Chinese ... 

horological substance...I will say this probably even if you combine 200+ of these "television" brand watches. The problem with cheap complex mechnical machines is that they are cheap. Unless Chinese manufactures can prove that they can reproduce these ma... 

I'm referring to your last few paragraphs about Chinese production. Great question. Unfortunately I'm unable to provide an answer. Only time will tell... Thank you for the review and thank you even more for the insightful question. If we ever do see a pas... 

devulge some pictures. Best, Mike

Granted that the CW's movement quality is ordinarily machine-made, it still does not take away the credit that it deserves for certain parts, especially the case and its locking mechanism. I don't know whether Chopard should cry or laugh or otherwise. Som... 

I think Chopard's Tribute watch is worth every penny that the company is asking for it... Anyone can see the huge difference between the two. The Chopard's case is of precious metal, the locking mechanism is more complex, and obviously the movement requir... 

...that given time and a visionary businessman/watch enthusiast as a backer, the Chinese have every ability to create nice watches. Thanks for the review. Cheers, Daos

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I do like bargain basement watches. There are a huge number of brands out there based in HK and the US that make homages to other great brands, but use good quality eta/unitas movements. I like a lot of them, but there is a thin line for of a purist of wh...