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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/ |
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On 31 Oct 2005 01:29:46 -0800, Gordon typed:
snip So what exactly does your web site that sells cheap, counterfeit watches have to do with pens? -- Cordially, Sonam Dasara 10/31/2005 11:49:27 AM |
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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. |
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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... -- Cordially, Sonam Dasara 10/31/2005 7:00:04 PM |
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