Quote Originally Posted by M4tt
I am firmly of the opinion that the massive skills base and tradition of excellence that Maoist China almost managed to extinguish is resurgent. How well the Swiss are going to weather the eventual appearance of cheap, very high quality, mechanical watches remains to be seen. It could be as catastrophic for them as quartz was in the seventies and eighties.
100% in agreement. They have the movements, but they still do not have the taste for design (I was in Beijing during Easter and went into some true chinese watch shops, just to go away horrified about the terrible design of watches!), and hence people like Eddie will have their chance.