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Re: LOWELL watches - DOES ANYONE KNOW THEM ??
In Response To: Re: LOWELL watches - DOES ANYONE KNOW THEM ?? ()

: I too purchased this watch brand somewhere in the Tuscany region of
: Italy and am looking to get it fixed, but no one is able to fix
: it.

: hey
The only trace I have been able to find is here: http://watchreview.com/index.html

This leads to here http://watchreview.com/Lowell/index.html which, as you see is cheap wall clocks. (Does the name on the face of your watch, resemble the font and design of that on the clocks?)

Following the Large header and footer on the original page for “Swanson”, leads here http://swanson.jp/X/tsSWN/ALL.html

It may be that Swanson and Lowell are one and the same, in which case the movement may be a MIYOTA 2105 but I would have expected a watchmaker to see that. (Perhaps they do but don’t carry spares.)

There is a tendency for Chinese factories to put out lines of cheap watches with names, I suspect, that have been gathered from Wikipedia. These lines last for a shipment or two and then are replaced.

It may well be that the watch is not worth repairing.

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