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Strange they are still listed,I was browsing earlier.
https://www.pageandcooper.com/brands/fortis/
I ware my B42 daily, I doubt many watches could stand the punishment it receives and still look so good. It even survived my dog taking it from the bed side table, through the house onto the patio, where by it proceeded to smash it from side to side holding the nato strap in its mouth, "killing" it against the patio as if it were a rat!
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Strange they are still listed,I was browsing earlier.
https://www.pageandcooper.com/brands/fortis/
Blimey! I thought mine took some beating but that sounds like a true test of durability. Is the dog a Jack Russell then?
Manchester terrier.
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The dreaded T word LOL.
A shame really. They are a brand with a rich history (world's first automatic wristwatch, Russian space missions etc.) and a design of their own. Maybe the Chinese or some other party will buy the name but it will not be the same. I think I will hold on to my B-42 for a little longer now, just for sentimental reasons.
I am just watching a very good P and C video on Fortis
he mentioned a book I have found it on PDF, it looks well worth reading.
http://www.fortis-watches.com/upload...bilee-Book.pdf
Many thanks for this. Looking through the PDF - what a fantastic heritage Fortis have. I own the 38mm Lemania 5100 Chronograph - brilliant watch. Real shame.
Traced right back to making lamps for the Romans that’s some history.
The Roman Empire was at its zenith.
In the town of Modena in Northern Italy, Lucius Aemilius Fortis had established a reputation for producing oil lamps
made from yellow and red clay. The quality of the small, useful lamps produced by his workshop was particularly good and transformed daily life in Ancient Rome.
The everyday life of the inhabitants, which until then had been determined by the trajectory of the sun, was enriched enormously by the inexpensive lamps that were available to everyone for the dark evening and night-time hours.
The brand name stamped on the bottom of these rst mass- produced oil lamps was very legible. FORTIS subsequently became the best known and most productive pottery works, and established a network of branches to supply inhabitants and avoid costly transport over long distances.
In 2008, evidence was found during archaeological digs near Modena in Northern Italy of the origin of so-called “company lamps” with the FORTIS stamp, as they had existed on three continents.
The commercial success was so great that imitators reproduced the signature for their own oil lamps, using it to label and distribute their products. FORTIS oil lamps were used until the second century A.D. and the name achieved such popularity that FORTIS became the most frequently imitated brand throughout the Roman Empire.
Not worth a separate thread and I don't know enough about fortis to work out if these are good prices or not but might be useful for someone:
https://www.tkmaxx.com/uk/en/search/?text=Fortis
Really sorry to learn such news.
I had an emails off them on Friday apologising for the tardy response to my previous messages, guess they are still working at the moment.
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