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Re:Timex Is Making Watches in America Again by AmVess on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @09:54AM (#19787921)
All good points, but they should have selected a non novelty grade movement to start out with. Landfills and warehouses are filled with this type of corporate vanity product that failed to deliver.

Beyond that, Timex is a brand name relegated to disposable $20 watches. Trying to fluff up their mind share with a poorly made and laughably priced product is not going to work out for them.

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Re:Timex Is Making Watches in America Again by criddell on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @10:14AM (#19788080)
> novelty grade movement

It's from Ronda and it's a good movement.

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Re:Timex Is Making Watches in America Again by AmVess on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @11:35AM (#19788860)
It's a $20 retail movement in a $500 watch. It's many steps away from the quality of a similarly priced Seiko product.
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Re:Timex Is Making Watches in America Again by criddell on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @11:48AM (#19788995)
The point of this watch is that it's assembled in America with decent labor conditions. I think that's probably why they went with a Swiss movement rather than one from Seiko or Citizen. Perhaps Seiko's environmental and labor practices are part of the reason their watches cost less.
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