Real Debate

[willy]

I think this debate is turning into something that will end badly.For the first the JLC ad is nothing to do with the pictures or the articles mentioned so far in this blogg.I read this story on time zone or another blogg a long time ago.It is ridiculous to expect anyone to remember the excact time and where they read it.But i suppose in the future we could make it a rule that you are not allowed to write anything without comprehensive documentation I would suggest instead for all this nit picking some of us started to do a little research on JLC and what this brand means to the swiss watch industry.And John JLC have made calibers at one time or another for just about every leading brand.You know as well has i do that for about one hundred years all the top brands sourced parts and calibers out of house and JLC were their largest supplier.I mean Patek only started to make their own watch cases a few years ago.IWC have used JLC for years so have AP. etc etc.It has always been a great tradition in the Swiss watch industry to out scource parts cases calibers etc etc.But it has never been public knowledge.It is only in recent years that because of the growing intrest for mechanical watches this knowledge has become public.If you read any older watch books you will not read that such and such a caliber is based on a ETA Or JLC etc etc caliber.No body in the watch trade talked about it becuase it was in some ways not important.But in recent years where so much is written about what some call true inhouse it as become of great intrest to watch freaks.I read a article recently from the boss of a well know Swiss brand where he mentioned that he was very sorry to see this tradition of out scourcing disappearing.You cannot hide much in the world today and brands that want to be inhouse have to be very carefull about how much they out scource.In the old days they just did not mention it.So i would suggest that anyone who has doubts about JLC contribution to the Swiss watch industry does a little research.And i suggest we do not delve to much into any article ever written.So please read read read more about JLC and their history . Willy