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they probably mean hand assembled just like every other mechanical watch ever made. typical tv shopping channel jargon.
i once went to a watch auction in Birmingham. it was a regular quarterly auction and at the end the auctioneer announced that the following week there would be an auction of watch stock from a defunct shopping channel. these watches were advertised as allegedly being worth £16k and some people had paid up to £8k for them as the sales patter mentioned all the right words when in fact they had cheap quartz movements, 5 micron gold plate you could wipe off with a bit of sweat and very poor industrial grade diamonds. he stated true value was possibly £200, threw the watch over his shoulder and said ' perhaps some of you will come' in a very resigned way.
i dont know how these presenters can live with themselves unless they are as stupid as they look and act.
Graham
Hand made? for 300 quid? Not likely. I think they probably meant that the watch has hands. Maybe they meant to say "made with hands" as opposed to digital.
Handmade means what?
Suffering a temporary (hopefully) bout of insomnia, I was reduced to flicking through late night TV channels to find something to pass the time.
And came across a channel selling Constantin Weitz watches. Not a brand I had heard of, offering a wide range of styles, one or two of which were
very similar in appearence at least to some prestige brands including Richard Mille. Prices were around £100 t0 £300.
What intrigued me was the repeated statements made by the presenters - one of whom had apparently worked for Garrards in London ( at one time the Royal Jewellers) to the effect that these watches were not mass-produced, instead they were handmade.
Which got me thinking - what, in terms of watches, does handmade mean? What criteria must a manufacturer satisfy to justify such a claim? Are there acceptable levels of handmade?
I'd be very interested to see what you think.
Colin
And came across a channel selling Constantin Weitz watches. Not a brand I had heard of, offering a wide range of styles, one or two of which were
very similar in appearence at least to some prestige brands including Richard Mille. Prices were around £100 t0 £300.
What intrigued me was the repeated statements made by the presenters - one of whom had apparently worked for Garrards in London ( at one time the Royal Jewellers) to the effect that these watches were not mass-produced, instead they were handmade.
Which got me thinking - what, in terms of watches, does handmade mean? What criteria must a manufacturer satisfy to justify such a claim? Are there acceptable levels of handmade?
I'd be very interested to see what you think.
Colin
colin, i think artistic licence was heavily used in the ad.
they probably mean hand assembled just like every other mechanical watch ever made. typical tv shopping channel jargon.
i once went to a watch auction in Birmingham. it was a regular quarterly auction and at the end the auctioneer announced that the following week there would be an auction of watch stock from a defunct shopping channel. these watches were advertised as allegedly being worth £16k and some people had paid up to £8k for them as the sales patter mentioned all the right words when in fact they had cheap quartz movements, 5 micron gold plate you could wipe off with a bit of sweat and very poor industrial grade diamonds. he stated true value was possibly £200, threw the watch over his shoulder and said ' perhaps some of you will come' in a very resigned way.
i dont know how these presenters can live with themselves unless they are as stupid as they look and act.
Graham
"Untouched by human hands" might be more appropriate...
...if you consider all the R&D they did.
Aha! Evidence proving the validity . . .
hand made?
Hand made? for 300 quid? Not likely. I think they probably meant that the watch has hands. Maybe they meant to say "made with hands" as opposed to digital.