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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 359588, member: 25&quot;]This probably dates from the 1970s and is typical of hundreds of watches with now unknown makers because they were simply routine ESA Swiss movements cased and retailed by whoever thought they had a good marketing plan. Usually the names just faded away from the market memory, or had such a small impact they went effectively un-noticed.</p><p>Retailers have always been able to order watches with any name they wanted on the dial, if ordering enough to make it worthwhile for the maker. Back around 1800 you could order a watch with your own name on the dial instead of numbers, as in *JOHN*HUGHES.</p><p><br /></p><p>This watch&nbsp; is another case of something made by some blokes in a shed somewhere. Like many things it is irrelevant if it was made by Poffle Ltd. or the Woffle Co. No one remembers or cares about Poffle or Woffle nowadays, all that matters is the quality and merit of the thing itself. </p><p>The watch in question is typical of the period in style and mechanically of good but not outstanding quality, mid range in a spectrum of retail watch pricing. Due to over a hundred years of development in the wrist watch movement business, mid range is really pretty good, but also really undistinguished. </p><p><br /></p><p>A couple of cautionary notes. Do not advise people to &#039;pop the back&#039; of what is obviously a screwback case. </p><p>Secondly because something does not have an immediate appearance on the internet does not make it a possible fake. I have not bothered to place on the net records of my bowel movements, 1967 to 1976, because no one cares and I never kept any records anyway. Other equally unimportant information goes un-published and un-recorded.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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