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Originally Posted by PHC1
Define a “watchmaker”? So if a skilled watchmaker does not work for Patek Philippe he is not a worthy watchmaker? Even if a watchmaker in China is putting together a fake watch with complications with skill and precision, is he not a watchmaker? If you are an experienced physician working in your private practice and another is on staff at the Mayo Clinic, does that make you less of a physician? The snobbery is precisely the target client of the Swiss watch makers with their exhuberant prices.
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With all due respect it seems as though you're completely misunderstanding my comments, so please don't attribute any such snobbery to me. To clarify my post I never questioned the ability of any watchmakers regardless of their nationality, but rather only raised doubt to ERA's own claims that their watch is made by the same watchmakers as the major brands (which happen to be Swiss). The free market will determine their ultimate success or failure, to each their own.