Watchlords

WatchWiley wrote:I've spoken to the senior vice President of Swiss watch international as well as the senior designer for our Swiss legend watches, they are both getting me the names and addresses of the facilities that assemble our watches. Our senior designer just came back from the factories. We even have a video showing how the watches are made in Switzerland. I am delighted to make all of this available to you. They are getting me the addresses so it's not just me naming off a suppose it building. I will put post that to hear as soon as it sent to me. It is appalling that some watch companies want to fake what a Swiss watch is. According to the Swiss watch Federation, I watch must be 60% in its content, Swiss. It also has to have a Swiss movement. It must have that movement placed in the case in Switzerland. And the final inspection of the watch must take place in Switzerland. When all of this criteria The watch can be labeled as Swiss made at the 6 o'clock position. I promise I will post the relevant information as soon as I receive the email.

AlbertaTime wrote:

WatchWiley wrote:I've spoken to the senior vice President of Swiss watch international as well as the senior designer for our Swiss legend watches, they are both getting me the names and addresses of the facilities that assemble our watches. Our senior designer just came back from the factories. We even have a video showing how the watches are made in Switzerland. I am delighted to make all of this available to you. They are getting me the addresses so it's not just me naming off a suppose it building. I will put post that to hear as soon as it sent to me. It is appalling that some watch companies want to fake what a Swiss watch is. According to the Swiss watch Federation, I watch must be 60% in its content, Swiss. It also has to have a Swiss movement. It must have that movement placed in the case in Switzerland. And the final inspection of the watch must take place in Switzerland. When all of this criteria The watch can be labeled as Swiss made at the 6 o'clock position. I promise I will post the relevant information as soon as I receive the email.

Welcome to you. Look forward to the info you can bring.

WatchWiley wrote:I've spoken to the senior vice President of Swiss watch international as well as the senior designer for our Swiss legend watches, they are both getting me the names and addresses of the facilities that assemble our watches. Our senior designer just came back from the factories. We even have a video showing how the watches are made in Switzerland. I am delighted to make all of this available to you. They are getting me the addresses so it's not just me naming off a suppose it building. I will put post that to hear as soon as it sent to me. It is appalling that some watch companies want to fake what a Swiss watch is. According to the Swiss watch Federation, I watch must be 60% in its content, Swiss. It also has to have a Swiss movement. It must have that movement placed in the case in Switzerland. And the final inspection of the watch must take place in Switzerland. When all of this criteria The watch can be labeled as Swiss made at the 6 o'clock position. I promise I will post the relevant information as soon as I receive the email.

WatchWiley wrote:To answer the question of Swiss Legend's Swiss origins:
1. Upon entering the United States through customs, the watches must have a certificate stating their country of origin. Answer: Switzerland.
2. Our factory is in Lugano Switzerland. The movements are a variety of Swiss suppliers. Most are ISA movements. Legally, 60% of the watches value must be Swiss, the movement must be Swiss, the movement must be assembled in the case in Switzerland and the final inspection must be in Switzerland. By passing these criteria, we may use the monicker at the 6 o'clock position SWISS MADE. thus the country of origin can read Switzerland at customs.
3. I am not at liberty to say on this post which watch brand, but our factory is also shared with a premier high end company who uses it for a few of its watches as well.
4. Unlike the questionable watch brand that switched out movements, we are a company who partners with the largest watch companies in the world. If we have a scandal with a fake Swiss Legend, we would jeopardize millions of dollars. We are the #1 seller of Swiss watches in North America and # 4 in the world. To "fake" a Swiss watch among the company we keep would mean death.

tiktok wrote:Did you know that a fringe watchmaker named Clerc totally ripped off your brilliant design for the Scubador? Are you guys going to court over intellectual property theft? You really should.

tiktok wrote:What kind of Swiss auto movement is inside your Swiss autos, it's not the Claro Seamag still....?

tiktok wrote:I have a hard time looking at your website, maybe you can pick out a few examples.

WatchWiley wrote:4. There were some of our own brands that were older stock that I did not feel comfortable selling as I thought they were crap. We bring out about 100 watches for the show each time. We only air what we want or get to. There is a beautiful Graham watch that Megan has just said, great watch, tired of showing it. So back to the vault it goes. We sometimes will have a retail price that I feel is a joke. I say so on tv. I will assess and give what I feel the real value of the watch is. I also have the ability to give a watch one minute of air time or 5-10 minutes. I had an older model Swiss Legend fall apart while I was showing it. I all but threw it. That watch will never air again. The new Swiss Made Swiss Legends are great.
5. We are on Direct TV channel 227 or on our website live streaming 6-9est sat n sun.
8. I do what I do because I want to. I was semi retired and living the good life in Daytona. I drive 4 hours each week one way to do the shows. Frankly, they can't afford me. But they have promised me that the quality of the show and website content is going to go dramatically up. They Want World of Watches to be the watch lovers go-to place, with a knowledge database, features, interviews, more established brands, more info for the true collector. If they don't follow through with that, I won't be there. I work with Disney, the Discovery Channel, PBS...I have a pretty high standard. I just finished a project with Toyota. I won't do anything to jeopardize my credibility. Or maybe I just did! Lol

Mortuus wrote:Citizen and Orient, if y'all don't already have 'em...

WatchWiley wrote:What watches would you like to see our buyers acquire for SWI to sell, if we could get them at a discounted price?

koimaster wrote:

WatchWiley wrote:What watches would you like to see our buyers acquire for SWI to sell, if we could get them at a discounted price?

Bremont
Marathon
Seagull
Zeno
Stowa
Tudor
Alpina
Frederique constant
Junghans

foghorn wrote:

WatchWiley wrote:I'm going to give a shoutout to Watchlords on Sunday nights show. 12-20-15
Just so you know it's me.

JMHO-but I think we're good. As far as I'm concerned you are you, FWIW, and no need to mention this fine forum on a "watch show"
WIS in the know, know.