“You want to go swimming with your expensive dive watch??!”

Maybe it’s a Dutch thing since the rest of the world seemingly classifies us as being a bit frugal(?) but today a second renowned watchmaker tried to scare me out of actually going swimming (not even diving) with my 2021, 600m water resistant Omega Planet Ocean. Despite the fact that I have it wr tested before every summer.

I imagine this has come up here before but I’m a bit baffled. I mean that’s what the darn things were designed for after all?

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BAD idea to start a microbrand?

We have many threads asking something along the lines of …

“Which microbrands have gone under?”
“Which was your favorite among the now-defunct microbrands”?
Etc.

Even my favorite microbrand bloke (Chris of NTH) had to throw in the towel after a while.

I found this by accident, and I thought: It must suck to be NEZUMI.
The original sells for like 400 Euros. See below.
Nothing NEZUMI can do about it, really, from a continent away.

And there are other similar sad stories I’ve read…

BAD idea to start a microbrand?

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