gup502
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Exactly, they have been in their comfort zone for too long.
Mar 02, 2017,21:49 PM
Perhaps if the numbers in the books read all right, why bother. If there is some known issues which could be a fundamental design flaw, why bother to get it fixed once a for all for in the next generation.
The movement might not be popular enough and needs to be discontinued anyway. If there are customers owning the timepiece, whatever is wrong with it can be fixed by replacing a new component even that will fail and problems emerge again. Furthermore once it is returned, it will not come back at least for another year. Whoever is then assigned to fix it, take that as part of a training exercise. If there a big pool of watch making labours, it is no issue. I really hope that is not happening. But it is a story I heard of. When it comes to Cost and Benefit analysis, the few members in the top might take this approach. We have heard of agent issues in companies.
The change of wind in the luxury watch industry has finally flagged an alert in the Richemont group. Let's hope JLC get the message, the brand has plenty of opportunities to do only better starting with correct guidance from the top.