I always thought they’d eventually sell tourbillons, ever since I read that it was French for a whirlwind. After all, who but Ideal World presenters could be better suited to offering us a load of hot air, endlessly going round and round without ever going anywhere…?
But seriously, it shows how little they know or care about the products they sell. Just ‘pile ‘em high’ and try not to sell ‘em cheap…
Incidentally - I really like your Parmis, Hammy. The batons and numerals look applied rather than stamped and the blueing goes well with the strap.
That's one of the things i find funny about their watch shows, they go on endlessly talking for 45 minutes about the watches, yet tell us nothing actually about the watches themselves ie detailed specs, it's all stupid made up stories of the name of brand and the name of the watch. When they do mention specs, it's usually just the size and when they do mention the movement, it's usually very scant info or totally wrong/exaggerated.
While brand history can be important, it's only important when you're getting a true story of an actual watchmaking brand with actual real history and heritage, not some made up story for numerous resurrected brand names to cover the fact that they all really come from the same company in Hong Kong.
While a lot of Chinese watches are just cheap crap, they also do a lot of good watches, but if buying Chinese i like to do that direct, from a brand that doesn't hide who they are and where the watches are made and price their watches with the true value they are worth, not some fictitious, wildly exaggerate RRPs which we se on IW. Take their Toubillons, the latest offersings from the IW (Earnshaw, Swan & Edgar etc) all have RRPs of around £3,000 and selling around the £1,000, yet go to Ali Express and buy direct from a Chinese brand and you'll find them around the £500 mark, ok you may get caught with tax at customs (approx works out at 28%) although i've yet to be charge any extra when buying from Ali, but it'll still work out way cheaper. Same if you buy Mathey-Tissot from Jomashop in the states, you can make big savings buying from there.
One thing they never mention on all these collectors shows is SERVICING of the watches, all these watches they claim you should insure and will be future heirlooms and will be passed down from generation to generation will need servicing at some point and when the cost of the servicing for the luxury £120 Swan & Edgar watch will be more than the watch cost then folks will realise in 10/15 years time, that the future heirlooms is in fact nothing more than a bucket job when something goes wrong, which it will do.
Yeah it's a nice watch, and amazing what watches (quality and spec wise) you can get for £50 if you look elsewhere from IW.
