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Puzzling That They Can't Get the Fonts Right
In Response To: sorry... ()

Points well taken. It is strange to me that they can't get the fonts / script right. This would seem to be so easy, but instead has been a point of weakness.

It almost seems that we could "fix" (or at least improve) the fonts / script on some of the newer models through the use of PhotoShop.

Jeff

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: Sorry, but I just find the new LVMH TAG-Heuers are really, really
: poor designs. Somehow TAG seems more inspired by fake Monaco
: dials than real ones? The Monaco script and Heuer shield look
: like they are a completely perfect copy of the font of our
: favourite fake "waffle" Monaco dials. There is just
: something so "wrong" about nearly everything they do.

: When you look at the beautiful retrospective watches that Omega
: makes, you really have to wonder why TAG got it so wrong. Zenith
: also make some great re-issues (and some hideous ones), even
: some of the Breitlings are not bad (though they do their fair
: share of hideous as well).

: The thing is, what is the objective of TAG? To get the approval of
: a couple of hundred watch obsessives (most of whom don't buy new
: watches anyway) or to sell millions of watches? I guess they
: know that business better than us.... The one reissue model
: where I think they did a really excellent job was the
: Silverstone, and that seems to have failed, so it shows I know
: nothing about selling watches in 2015.

: Sorry, it is a bit harsh maybe. LVMH have tried to honour the
: history in some good ways - the museum is excellent, and some of
: their adverts are good in referring to past history. So some
: credit there.

: Maybe I shouldn't be so critical, but that's what internet forums
: are all about.

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