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Originally Posted by neverdone
Fairly condescending in your remarks there I think. Maybe I worded it wrong, but yes I think the definition of a fashion watch is that it's [maker is] not [predominantly] a watch/jewelry designer. Most of the watches I mentioned are made by the same manufacturing company, that also make Oakley glasses and other things as well and have a lot of the same movements.
As for your other comments, fashion watches may have made functional chrono watches, but as far as I've ever seen, nothing like the Navihawk. If there have been I guess I wouldn't know, I wouldn't buy it.
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TY for the honest reply. I appreciate that.
Perhaps what you wrote in the earlier post and what you meant aren't the same things. The reworded-by-me text in the first paragraph above is what I think you mean(t).
I would just offer one caution, since it's not among the stuff you wrote either time: don't assume that because a maker doesn't strictly make just watches that the watches they make aren't first rate. There are quite a few designer (non-watch only) brands for which that is far from so.
- Dior -- http://birrellappraisal.com/the-time...-dior-watches/
- Chanel -- https://www.hautehorlogerie.org/en/b...rand/s/chanel/
- Louis Vuitton -- http://www.my-watchsite.com/watch-lu...uitton-56.html
- Bulgari -- https://www.hautehorlogerie.org/en/b...and/s/bulgari/
- Ralph Lauren -- http://www.my-watchsite.com/watch-lu...lauren-84.html -- RL watches are essentially Richemont's "private label" brand. Richemont licenses the name from RL and gets aesthetic design input from RL. Everything about the watch's manufacture is pure Richemont, which is to say, the "guts" come from throughout the Richemont stable...JLC and Piaget being the primary providers.
- Mont Blanc -- https://www.hautehorlogerie.org/en/b...d/s/montblanc/
- Graff -- http://www.masterhorologer.com/2009/...ction-and.html -- These folks are mostly known for being jewelers to the "jet set," but they purchased a watch manufacturing facility and now make first rate watches too, but only really, really rich folks buy them. No surprise with the price of entry being ~$45K and the jewels on/in them being as important as the horological craftsmanship, and the target customer buys it very much the same way they'd buy a new pair of shoes, not as an instrument of horological brilliance. Their watches aren't technologically innovative, but they are top flight, and they have "in house" cachet.
- Hermes -- https://www.hautehorlogerie.org/en/b...rand/s/hermes/
- Piaget -- http://www.thewatchquote.com/Piaget-History-No_117.htm (Probably the most serious of watch companies that is also a non-watch company. These guys give up nothing to PP, AP and VC, except perhaps brand awareness by the general, non-watchie public)
- Boucheron -- https://www.hautehorlogerie.org/en/b...d/s/boucheron/
- Van Cleef & Arpels -- https://www.hautehorlogerie.org/en/b...-cleef-arpels/
- Cartier -- https://www.hautehorlogerie.org/en/b...and/s/cartier/
- Tiffany (these days, to a lesser extent than the rest, but still nice. More to my point, however, their watches could easily change back to the stature they had when Patek and Rolex made Tiffany watches.)
- John Varvatos (solid mid-range watches made by Ernst Benz)
FWIW, functional watches need only do one thing: measure time. Time measurement doesn't require a displayed stopwatch function. It only requires that some increment of time is measured. A watch doesn't actually
have to display/report time; however, it must measure time. A current example of that principle is found in some of Beat Haldimann's watches.
Beat Haldimann H1
Beat Haldiman H9
https://www.hautehorlogerie.org/en/b...eat-haldimann/
All the best.