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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 4351904, member: 360"]I have seen years on SOME watches, but it's almost exclusively limited to stuff like the founding-years of the companies that made the watches. Other than that, I don't think it's been a very common practice. </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, you could get what are called "private label" watches. Basically, if you were a jewelry store or a watch-shop or something, you could write to a watchmaking factory (for example, Hamilton), and say: "I want to buy 5,000 units from you of this type of watch, I want the dial to say "Tick Tock Clocks & Watches". Enclosed is the customisation fee..." </p><p><br /></p><p>And the factory would produce them to your specifications - for a fee, of course - and post them to you. I've seen a lot of private-label watches. I used to own a few. It's a prettty common practice, but so far as I know, it's limited to company or shop-names, etc. I've never seen it done for years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 4351904, member: 360"]I have seen years on SOME watches, but it's almost exclusively limited to stuff like the founding-years of the companies that made the watches. Other than that, I don't think it's been a very common practice. Of course, you could get what are called "private label" watches. Basically, if you were a jewelry store or a watch-shop or something, you could write to a watchmaking factory (for example, Hamilton), and say: "I want to buy 5,000 units from you of this type of watch, I want the dial to say "Tick Tock Clocks & Watches". Enclosed is the customisation fee..." And the factory would produce them to your specifications - for a fee, of course - and post them to you. I've seen a lot of private-label watches. I used to own a few. It's a prettty common practice, but so far as I know, it's limited to company or shop-names, etc. I've never seen it done for years.[/QUOTE]
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