You need to have NFC.

What watch for £60 does connect to your phone? The only decent smart watches on the market are £200 ish..

LOL

Exactly... a balanced and intelligent comment, nice to see :smiley:

link?

Your on £31 an hr!!!

​I've got an alright looking casio, cost about 15 delivered and has never let me down spot on

Elegance is timeless
Habeeb Akande

Lol

Boss watches are made by Oldest Swiss watch maker Movado. As most luxury brands would be stamped if they don't make themselves but with Brand like Boss never on rubbish quality. Not to mention exclusive Boss designs!!
Moaner who don't understand can't be blamed for their ignorance! Pity really

Your absolutely right and if this anonymous person on a watch forum is correct we're all being fooled to one extent or another.

"Here is something that will come as a shock. I have represented some of the finest Swiss brand names in Japan. This places me in frequent contact with Customs and makes me quite knowledgeable about Japanese tariffs and country of origin branding laws. According to Japanese law, a watch which is manufactured overseas in a Japanese owned (or contracted) factory to Japanese quality control standards under Japanese supervision by a Japanese owned firm may be labeled "Made in Japan". "This is why Japan, with a population of 120 million, imports about 90 million watches a year, not because Japanese buy a new watch every year. They're for re-export. Statistics show that the average person buys a new watch somewhere around every five to seven years. Given this figure, Japan's internal watch demand would be somewhere between 17 to 24 million watches a year. Swiss watches represent only about 2 million pieces of the approximately 90 million pieces imported yearly. Chinese exports are around or even below this same figure. The rest of the approximately 85 million pieces imported are for re-export. They are made by Japanese companies overseas, and Japanese law allows them to be branded "made in Japan". this is entrepot trade." "Lest this seems too surprising, a number of companies in France, Germany and Italy also have the right to label their watches "Made in Switzerland" under certain circumstances, and I believe that under some circumstances, watches made in the US Virgin islands and that re enter Europe (The US Virgin islands have a customs union with Denmark, hence with the EEC) may also be labeled "Swiss made." "Japanese price levels for everything, be it the price of housing, food, moveis or wrist watches are Swiss levels. In Switzerland (and the USA too, for that matter) it's just not possible economically to mass produce inexpensive wrist watches. There are some special exceptions, such as Swatch, but it essentially has no competitors in Switzerland. Japan is in the same situation. The price of everything here makes the production of inexpensive mechanical watches prohibitive, and such production as there is remains limited to highly exclusive, quite pricey prestige pieces that are well beyond most people's pocket books--just like most Swiss watches."
From here: http://forums.watchuseek.com







nhoj, thank you for that super quote. honestly, i've kept one eye on this thread and was waiting for someone tgeek i am i correlated in google maps, and several interior production line pictures including robot part pickers and human-supervised hand alignment. so this makes me thin


Kabong30
Feb 3, 2010 - #8
Re: Japanese movement question....

Regarding use of the "Swiss Made" mark: http://www.fhs.ch/en/swissm.php I won't quote the whole thing here, but basically a percentage of the parts must be Swiss and the movement must be cased and inspected in Switzerland in order for a timepiece to be legally marked "Swiss Made".


bulldog15
Feb 3, 2010 - #9
Re: Japanese movement question....

For imports into the US and how the items must be marked - LINK


tribe125
Feb 3, 2010 - #10
Re: Japanese movement question....

Casio certainly manufactures in Japan. But yes, from a consumer's point of view, it doesn't matter whether they do or not.

As oppose to spending hundreds + on a watch due to its name in watch making? Same boat really? They may keep time very accurately, but where's the real life use in that anyway for most people?

​Dont think you can get many 30 metre water resistant analogue quartz watches with a swiss movement for less than a tenner. Perhaps you should sack the idea of a watch and get a cheap Chinese cuckoo clock as you are clearly living in cloud cuckoo land!