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  1. dsio Ash @ ΩF Staff Member Jul 25, 2012

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  2. dsio Ash @ ΩF Staff Member Jul 25, 2012

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    I'll continue bashing this piece of horological effluent in a moment, but seeing that idiot wearing one of these things on both wrists makes me want to make a drink.
     
  3. ulackfocus Jul 25, 2012

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    If anybody ever said "Hublot" to me I'd punch them repeatedly and then say "Who blows now dickhead?" as I stood over them. :p

    I had heard they were coming out with an in-house caliber and were going to offer to replace the ETA inside their recent watches for customers (at a price, of course). Any word on that?
     
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  4. dsio Ash @ ΩF Staff Member Jul 25, 2012

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    Well they've finally done something about the movements with the new unico calibre but the problem is the styling is so obviously derived from Genta's works, specifically the Royal Oak (the bezel and lugs) and the Nautilus (the flared sides) and they've then had to make the dial, hands and pushers all mental and illegible to prove that they didn't copy AP and Patek's designs.
     
  5. ulackfocus Jul 25, 2012

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    If AP's RO Montauk Highway LE and Wyler's Genève WT3 had a child, that Hublot is what it would look like. :eek::p
     
  6. dsio Ash @ ΩF Staff Member Jul 25, 2012

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    BTW this is why we don't have sponsorship, especially form Hublot
     
  7. dsio Ash @ ΩF Staff Member Jul 25, 2012

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    Check this out though, while the movement was certainly a commodity ETA quartz job, they did manage to use an in-house caseback gasket, funny looking enough to force the owner to service it in order to get a new battery:

    http://watchmakingblog.com/2008/03/26/hublot-parts/
     
  8. ulackfocus Jul 25, 2012

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    Not a surprise at all. Most of the brands do this.
     
  9. rbird7282 Jul 30, 2012

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    Yes it's called "We bent you over the log once for an ugly watch, so we're pretty sure you'll bend over again for an in-house movement" SUCKERS!