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Originally Posted by bigfatpauli
Let's examine that for a minute:
I said *made*. As far as I can tell, they never actually spent the money making the watch, there are just the few press photos of a rendering of the watch.
Something like that could be whipped up in an afternoon. Building a whole new caliber takes substantial funds and time. Did they build a new caliber JUST for this, only to just toss it out?
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Clearly you have a bone to pick with Moser, we're all entitled to opinions, but some facts you are missing, unaware of or have omitted.
1. The Swiss Icons was a very real watch, prior to all related media being pulled, there were live stream videos of the watch being unboxed on Instagram.
And on many websites there are still actual photos not renders of the watch.
2. Its used the same HMC 804 selfwinding tourbillon as the Endeavour concept tourbillon, and Pioneer Tourbillon.
The bracelet was a precursor to the bracelet that ended up being used on this years Pioneer shown at SIHH
Leaving the case/dial as unique,.. hardly millions in R&D. If it cost that much you'd never see one off customer dials that exist.
3, They promised to donate the auction proceeds from the watches sale.
The watch watch was pulled by significant legal pressure, no watch = no auction, no auction = proceeds to no donate.
They've donated multiple watches to charity auctions in the past that folk are generally unaware of, so they'd have nothing to gain by "using a charties name" as you say.