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Nothing Worse than Clarification that Gets It All Wrong

This "clarification" is so full of errors that I will not address the posting, as such.

I have a draft posting, on my thumb drive, going into some of our language:

  • Poor Man's Heuer
  • Look-Alikes
  • Pre-Carrera
  • Economy Model
  • Etc., Etc.

Rather than attempting to correct all the errors in this "clarification", I will try to post my own message sometime soon.

With all due humility, I believe that I coined the term, "Poor Man's Heuer", so let me have a go at clarifying it. The meaning is simple, "a watch made by Heuer and sold (or now selling) for less money under the name of another brand" [like Clebar, Aristo or Zodiac] . . . if it wasn't made by Heuer, then it's not a "Poor Man's Heuer".

Here is the first posting that I have been able to find, referring to a "Poor Man's Heuer" -- http://chronocentric.com/forums/heuer/index.cgi?md=read;id=542. Yes, it was message number 542, of the over 75,000 that we now have on this forum, and have a look at the two watches shown in the posting.

Jeff

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: Hi
: Just seen this,

: http://forums.timezone.com/index.php?t=tree&goto=7010020&rid=0

: Mich

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