Mommabear
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I haven’t seen little baby Field for ages. Is he busy designing?
Yeah, all joking aside, it's pretty disgusting truth be told. The brand and what those people achieved (originally) has absolutely NOTHING to do with these watches. To see the IW presenter bleat on about the British 'history' of the brand, making a clear link to the watches being sold, is contemptable. I notice they're not saying where these watches are actually made, unless I've missed it. And the way they keep using the word 'engineering' is an insult to skilled engineers everywhere.Shaun - "Here's a little bit of the incredible brands history"
May as well start with a lie.
Oh new guest, Steve, that'll be to hide The Swan & Edgar and Gamages link.
They are just bloody con artist, liars, fraudsters etc etc.
Yeah, all joking aside, it's pretty disgusting truth be told. The brand and what those people achieved (originally) has absolutely NOTHING to do with these watches. To see the IW presenter bleat on about the British 'history' of the brand, making a clear link to the watches being sold, is contemptable. I notice they're not saying where these watches are actually made, unless I've missed it. And the way they keep using the word 'engineering' is an insult to skilled engineers everywhere.
What gets me with these 'brand buy-ups' is the fact they usually have nothing linking them to the original brand and personnel. If it was a case of a company closing down and x years later ex employees (managers, shop floor etc) buying the brand and opening a new manufacturing facility, that would be different. In that scenario, they could say with relative confidence 'continuing the brand and its ethos.'
This isn't what's happening here.
And as for all the GUFF about men perving at other mens watches 24/7 and saying how they feel like they should be selling for £100's ... Ha Ha HAaaa. I wonder if they'll start showing 'realistic' RRPs in future shows
A while ago one of the S&E one star reviewers on IW said how disappointed he was that the first 'British made watch' he'd bought had stopped working after only a few weeks. They just deliberately mislead people.
Engineering seems to be the buzz word tonight he mentions things on the watch without actually knowing what he's talking about doesn't even know how to work a tachymeter
I'll say first of all I would never make fun of people that are on a budget. Not everyone can afford to buy tier 1 products, much of which cost a small fortune.The sad (and disgusting) thing about all this deception is that some people, who perhaps haven't that much money, are buying these things, maybe as a present, thinking that they're getting something a bit special.
Also Ideal World sell other watches that are at least well-established as reasonable quality items outside of the Ideal World universe such as Mathey-Tissot, Traser and Vostok (even if overpriced), therefore to also sell something like Swan & Edgar amongst them, priced at similar price points to their established brands yet inferior in quality and reputation despite claiming otherwise during their presentations makes it even worse. You simply can't trust Ideal World as a retailer to provide honest advice about ANYTHING when they do something like that (let alone some of the tat sold elsewhere on the channel).The sad (and disgusting) thing about all this deception is that some people, who perhaps haven't that much money, are buying these things, maybe as a present, thinking that they're getting something a bit special.
Everything in life is relative - I'm well known in my family but I don't get mobbed in the street by weird autograph hunters'They are so well known ...'
Eh?!?
What?!?!?