Independents

It was reported yesterday in Quill & Pad, Marc Jenni, one of the most enthusiastic and energetic young members of the A.H.C.I. (Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants), will have to cease and desist creating watches that carry his own name, Mar...  

This is the most amazing news of how the "Law is an Ass". I have never heard of Jenny as a watch brand despite being a collector for many a year and being a moderator on the world's premier horology on-line community. Never have I seen a single Jenny watc... 

Melvyn, I will not touch Jenny watch with 10-feet pole. If they think by eliminating Marc Jenni, they will excel, they are wrong. Intellectual property victory does not equate with haute hologerie success. Regards Ling

Lawyers against any form of reason. I have never heard of nor saw a Jenny watch ever. Marc, I hope you can use this as a spring board to get yourself and your watches even better known. Wishing you the best of luck, Don

I'm sure this is just a "bump" in Marc Jenni's history and it will soon be forgotten. Looking forward discovering the new name :) Mark

...when it is the English language (and not the French, or German) which has the absolutely perfect, possibly untranslatable, word for the actions of Jenny watches: that word is "churlish". Power to your elbow, Marc Jenni. Cheers, pplater.

it should be a relatively simple matter to deal with an injunction or whatever it is called - cease and desist ? There is no conceivable way that Jenny can be confused with Marc Jenni. None whatsoever ! Paying out an estimated 100,000 Swiss Franks for leg...