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<p>[QUOTE="Fid, post: 4334313, member: 7724"]there's another problem. there were two Cyma compaines at least.</p><p>furthmore. the Schwob family - originally from Basel - were a bunch of wild; they bought a fabrication in Chaux-de-Fond, opnened a store in Geneva and another one in Paris. lived in Paris till they went bankrupt at the start of the 20th c. due to "problems" with a luxury brand - Patek fakes- and seem to have been disappeared for a few years. what better place to go to than the US ? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> and open a "new" company with their knowledge ?</p><p>it was absolutely normal after WWI with all the restrictions on the markets to have a few Swiss sent over to assemble watches of disassembled parts to circumvent the prohibitive tariffs and taxes on import. so it might well be that they were partly produced in Switzerland, partly in the US, and afterwards exported back to Europe.</p><p>as said before, the lying dog was already used as mark when they were still a proper Swiss company.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Fid, post: 4334313, member: 7724"]there's another problem. there were two Cyma compaines at least. furthmore. the Schwob family - originally from Basel - were a bunch of wild; they bought a fabrication in Chaux-de-Fond, opnened a store in Geneva and another one in Paris. lived in Paris till they went bankrupt at the start of the 20th c. due to "problems" with a luxury brand - Patek fakes- and seem to have been disappeared for a few years. what better place to go to than the US ? ;) and open a "new" company with their knowledge ? it was absolutely normal after WWI with all the restrictions on the markets to have a few Swiss sent over to assemble watches of disassembled parts to circumvent the prohibitive tariffs and taxes on import. so it might well be that they were partly produced in Switzerland, partly in the US, and afterwards exported back to Europe. as said before, the lying dog was already used as mark when they were still a proper Swiss company.[/QUOTE]
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