Trek Strategy said:
How do you like it?
Your drawing above is from Manson Precision Industrial, a company in Hong Kong that designs and manufactures watches but the FAQ on your website says your watches are made in Switzerland. I have a hard time believing that a company in China that claims to design and manufacture watches would design a watch and send it to Switzerland to be made. Can you explain the disconnect here?Trek Strategy said:
Username checks out. Design and manufacture are two different things. I've seen thus on any number of watches. The Swiss manufacturing is the valuable part of a Swiss watch.I Am A Critic said:Your drawing above is from Manson Precision Industrial, a company in Hong Kong that designs and manufactures watches but the FAQ on your website says your watches are made in Switzerland. I have a hard time believing that a company in China that claims to design and manufacture watches would design a watch and send it to Switzerland to be made. Can you explain the disconnect here?Trek Strategy said:
https://www.mpi-limited.com/what-we-do/complete-watches/
Because labor and parts are so much cheaper in Switzerland than China.SPF250 said:Username checks out. Design and manufacture are two different things. I've seen thus on any number of watches. The Swiss manufacturing is the valuable part of a Swiss watch.I Am A Critic said:Your drawing above is from Manson Precision Industrial, a company in Hong Kong that designs and manufactures watches but the FAQ on your website says your watches are made in Switzerland. I have a hard time believing that a company in China that claims to design and manufacture watches would design a watch and send it to Switzerland to be made. Can you explain the disconnect here?Trek Strategy said:
https://www.mpi-limited.com/what-we-do/complete-watches/
Happy to explain. We actually manage the entire supply chain. That decision was made about 4 years ago when we realized that many watch companies allow one of the key stakeholders (Swiss, HK) actually manage the process. When you do that, the entire process slows down, you lose any kind of power in the relationships, and you are at the whims of "the business" and whatever they decide. At that point, my partner decided to manage the entire thing himself. So we have an account manager at MPI, an account rep in Switzerland at the Ronda time center, a different company for the packaging, a parts supplier for tools, and a company here north of Dallas that makes the leather watch roll. We manage it all so that everything is up to our quality standard and no one else is speaking for our brand. With that said, this is a Swiss movement. The bracelet, case, and engraving is all done in Hong Kong. The leather travel roll is from Texas. Lastly, yes, HK and Switzerland have to work together on this project. The watches actually travel air freight several times, with 3 different QA inspections before they land in the US. MPI does all the renderings for us because the Swiss would never do that for a company our size.I Am A Critic said:Your drawing above is from Manson Precision Industrial, a company in Hong Kong that designs and manufactures watches but the FAQ on your website says your watches are made in Switzerland. I have a hard time believing that a company in China that claims to design and manufacture watches would design a watch and send it to Switzerland to be made. Can you explain the disconnect here?Trek Strategy said:
https://www.mpi-limited.com/what-we-do/complete-watches/
BourbonAg said:FTAC2011 said:
Trade for bourbon?
Not if I want to keep Mrs. Bourbonag around.
That is the norm for watches around that pricepoint.I Am A Critic said:
So the movement is Swiss made but everything else is Chinese sweatshop.
I have nothing wrong with people enjoying themselves (obviously).AgLA06 said:It's horrible that people try to enjoy themselves.TheOC16 said:
The Leather Travel Roll, which is a very nice one, is made here in Texas by Odin Leather Goods. Believe it or not, the packaging is made in Pakistan.I Am A Critic said:
So the movement is Swiss made but everything else is Chinese sweatshop.
You're the one advertising your watch as "Swiss-made" which is more than a little disingenuous when only the movement is Swiss. When I see "Swiss-made", I expect assembled in Switzerland with Swiss parts, not movements shipped from Switzerland to a Chinese sweatshop.Trek Strategy said:The Leather Travel Roll, which is a very nice one, is made here in Texas by Odin Leather Goods. Believe it or not, the packaging is made in Pakistan.I Am A Critic said:
So the movement is Swiss made but everything else is Chinese sweatshop.
We have dreams of moving more and more production to North America and have already had meetings domestically.
Maybe you were talking about just the watch.
I Am A Critic said:You're the one advertising your watch as "Swiss-made" which is more than a little disingenuous when only the movement is Swiss. When I see "Swiss-made", I expect assembled in Switzerland with Swiss parts, not movements shipped from Switzerland to a Chinese sweatshop.Trek Strategy said:The Leather Travel Roll, which is a very nice one, is made here in Texas by Odin Leather Goods. Believe it or not, the packaging is made in Pakistan.I Am A Critic said:
So the movement is Swiss made but everything else is Chinese sweatshop.
We have dreams of moving more and more production to North America and have already had meetings domestically.
Maybe you were talking about just the watch.
I don't even think it's accurate to call it "debt". He slow-paid consignees when their watches sold and used the proceeds to fund his ridiculous lifestyle. He got drunk and misplaced a backpack with $2mm of customer inventory and reckons he is around $5mm in the hole.Dies Irae said:Canyon99 said:
That chump has been involved in lots of drama over the past few years. Went dark for a while with client money/watches, got robbed of a considerable amount of watches, moved to CA and lost a lease on an expensive penthouse because he couldn't afford it. What is that clown involved in now?
He admitted he didn't actually get robbed, is $5,000,000 in debt and has essentially been running a watch Ponzi scheme.
I Am A Critic said:You're the one advertising your watch as "Swiss-made" which is more than a little disingenuous when only the movement is Swiss. When I see "Swiss-made", I expect assembled in Switzerland with Swiss parts, not movements shipped from Switzerland to a Chinese sweatshop.Trek Strategy said:The Leather Travel Roll, which is a very nice one, is made here in Texas by Odin Leather Goods. Believe it or not, the packaging is made in Pakistan.I Am A Critic said:
So the movement is Swiss made but everything else is Chinese sweatshop.
We have dreams of moving more and more production to North America and have already had meetings domestically.
Maybe you were talking about just the watch.
Dies Irae said:
It's not just your smaller brands either. I believe Omega has their bracelets done in China, or used to
jamesf said:
What is the watch?
Red Pear Realty said:
Dude, that meteorite dial is cool AF, I don't care what brand it is.
Fall92 said:
CW with a new mulberry red release. May be too wine colored for game day.
