IWC a historical brand

The International Watch Company has an interesting adventurous history.
More than three times on the brink of bankruptcy they proved to be
resistant. The company is maybe the only Swiss manufacturing company
started by an American by his name Florentine Ariosto Jones. The
company was not started on bare ground but on the ruins of what Aaron
Lufkin Dennison left behind as he failed to move his production to
Switzerland.

The watchmaker that made things possible in the start for the new IWC
company was Johann Heinrich Moser. The company moved to Schaffhausen
and production started in 1868 using cheap hydro-power. Unfortunately
the high taxed Jones had to pay when exporting watches to USA led the
company to their first bankruptcy. Following were another two
bankruptcies.

During the World War II the company succeeded in creating an oversize
anti-magnetic pilot's watch and the famous Mark X model. These models
helped the company to regain strength and to continue producing their
watches. The Mark X model featured a new in-house movement the Calibre
83. It was in this period when the factory was almost bombed due an
allied mistake.

As the brand acquired connection with the Porsche car company they
produced a series of sports watches that were produced continuously
until today. Most known is the "Da Vinci" model which features a
special perpetual chronograph calendar programmed for the next 500
years. You cannot understand IWC if you don't know about the most
complicated watch ever in 1993: the Il Destriero. The watch has 21
complex functions that will make any connoisseur or collector dream
about it instantly.

IWC watches can hit $40,000 easily on their most wanted watches and to
the large majority this is an untouchable price. We have a solution for
the problem: high quality replica watches manufactured with the best
materials available but with affordable prices. But, you can get a
replica watch or an IWC replica watch for much less.

For more information please visit http://www.lookrichforless.com/

On 31 Oct 2005 01:29:46 -0800, Gordon typed:

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So what exactly does your web site that sells cheap, counterfeit
watches have to do with pens?


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Cordially,

Sonam Dasara
10/31/2005 11:49:27 AM

He may be thinking about moving into the $19.95 Parker Sonnet business.

Gordon

Not to be confused with the Bulgarian "Gordon" selling rip-off watches. I
checked the Sofia phone directory, no Gordons listed. It can't be that
common a name in the Balkans.

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:20:24 GMT, R. Paul Martin typed:

He's obviously a spammer, and you're right about the counterfeit
watches.

If you scroll down to the bottom of the page the "Disclaimer" is quite
amusing. It starts off, "By viewing this page and any other page you
agree to such terms. If you are affiliated with or working for Oakley,
Rolex, MontBlanc, or any of the enclosed name brand mentioned products
either directly or indirectly, or any other related group, or were
formally a worker you CANNOT enter this web site, cannot access any of
its files and you cannot view any of the HTML files," and goes on to
allege that U.S. federal law protects them and prevents the trademark
holders from doing anything about it on the basis of privacy. Jeez, do
these sorts of scam sites actually make money for their perpetrators?

I can't imagine that it does, given the sheer number of counterfeit
watch sites being caught in my spam trap - they now surpass the
erectile dysfunction emails...

These are terrible counterfeits (I own two Rolexes so I can tell by
looking at a photo) they look like junk, and probably feel worse. I
imagine they cost less than $10 to manufacture, but who would buy
them? I've only seen one on someone's wrist once - a car salesman -
and it looked fake from across the table; up close it was just
ghastly...

I know that Rolex and Cartier prosecute with *vehemence*, and don't
think twice about what prosecution costs...
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Cordially,

Sonam Dasara
10/31/2005 7:00:04 PM