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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 81654, member: 25"]Possibly I was not clear enough. The name on the<i> movement </i>does not mean that person made the whole movement or even any part of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any retailer could order a reasonable number of watches with their name on the dial. They could also obtain movements engraved with any name they wanted. </p><p>In earlier days a buyer could order a watch with his name on the dial instead of numbers. If they had a name that could conveniently fit as 12 symbols anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 81654, member: 25"]Possibly I was not clear enough. The name on the[I] movement [/I]does not mean that person made the whole movement or even any part of it. Any retailer could order a reasonable number of watches with their name on the dial. They could also obtain movements engraved with any name they wanted. In earlier days a buyer could order a watch with his name on the dial instead of numbers. If they had a name that could conveniently fit as 12 symbols anyway.[/QUOTE]
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