Watch Facts, Stats, News, Etc. Do you Know ? ? ?

[pet]

Bros,

thread to add some interesting facts, stats or some interesting stuff on watches & it's industries. the SG-ROC! Answers - Do u know...??? Quotes, history, sales, news etc etc

[marineguy8888]

What kind of news you looking at good or bad ?

[pet]

i start hor ...

" Of the top 10 markets for swiss watches, four are in Asia. They are Japan, Hong Kong, China, Singapore. COmbined, these markets accounted for 43% of total Swiss watch export in 2006"

Source: BIZQ magazine by SBF

[pet]

What kind of news you looking at good or bad ?

any news, stats, interesting article tht u bros come across loh, for example... another 1 below

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"" The Wrist watch (a watch worn on the wrist) was first sold by Patek Phillipe Co. in the late 1880s. It was originally a woman’s accessory but it was eventually found to be a useful tool for pilots ""

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[marineguy8888]

Controversy view on the watch marker can ??

Will i be banned ?

[pet]

Controversy view on the watch marker can ??

Will i be banned ?

haha, tht i dunno leh ... quote from some where loh... hahhaa

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" Cortina Watch's "watch Espace" in Millenia Walk is approx 7000sqft. It may be Asia's Largest watch Boutique "

Source: BIZQ by SBF

[Darkangel]

Controversy view on the watch marker can ??

Will i be banned ?

Nope...

[marineguy8888]

http://online.wsj.com/public/article...176051433.html

[pet]

Nope...

quote from somewhere can lah ... news mah

http://online.wsj.com/public/article...176051433.html

wow, bid their own ah ...

[marineguy8888]

Yalor now i think twice before buying VC PP FM watches .

Now i try to study the movement before commiting .

[pet]

Yalor now i think twice before buying VC PP FM watches .

Now i try to study the movement before commiting .

hahah, ask them to bid your pieces loh ... haha

anyway, the article u link got a singaporean collector ... sekali he's one of the bro here ..

quote from tht link:

" A Singaporean collector, told of Omega's role, called it "heinous." Melvyn Teillol-Foo, who bid over the Internet and bought a few pricey watches, added: "If it turns out they bid against me and got me to $8,000, I would be ticked off."



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Askmen.com Top Ten Lux Watches

http://www.askmen.com/fine_living/top_10/16_top_10.html

No. 10
TAG Heuer Kirium F1
$3,000

No. 9
Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Classique Grande Automatique
$8,200

No. 8
Bulgari Ergon
$15,000

No. 7
Patek Philippe Celestial
$194,200

No. 6
IWC Grande Complication
$215,000

No. 5
Richard Mille RM 002-V2 Turbillon
$240,000

No. 4
Parmigiani Fleurier Bugatti Type 370
$274,000

No. 3
Breguet Double Tourbillon Classique Grande Complication
$329,000

No. 2
Vacheron Constantin Skeleton Minute Repeater
$623,000

finally... the no 1 spot.
Girard-Perregaux Opera Three
$630,000

[pet]

Watch dealer jailed for misappropriation of Rolex watches
He pawned the watches and gambled away the money.
By Elena Chong, Court Correspondent


A FORMER freelance watch dealer who misappropriated about $100,000 worth of Rolex watches was jailed for 22 months.

Fong Yew Khee, 53, admitted to two counts of being entrusted with six watches at Perfect Antiques Jewellery Gallery on Jan 22 and five watches on Jan 26 when he committed criminal breach of trust of the items amounting to $64,000.

The court heard that he offered to help the Temple Street shop owner, Mr Yap Kian Siang, deliver six watches to a Malaysian client, their common friend, on Jan 22. Instead, he pledged the watches at two pawnshops for $26,300 cash.

Four days later, he lied to Mr Yap that he had potential owners and was given five watches which were again pawned.

On March 30 he surrendered himself to the police, confessing he had gambled away the money.

Three other charges involving seven watches were taken into consideration.

Police recovered 13 watches worth $72,800.


source : http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest+N...ry_168179.html

[louisoh]

Gambled away.... OMG...

[Darkangel]

Do this kinda business cannot afford to gamble 1...ur hand got money confirm itchy

[pet]

Man jailed for fake Rolex watch

A Belgian man has been jailed for six months for wearing a fake Rolex .

A court in Dendermonde heard that the man, named only as Gunther R, 33, had been spotted by representatives of Rolex wearing the fake watch and they complained to authorities.

The judge ruled the man had knowingly bought the fake and sentenced him to six months in prison under laws for handling counterfeit goods.

He was also ordered to pay a £700 fine for breaching brand name registration laws.

source: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1587840.html

hahaha ... wonder this law applies in singapore too >????"