Reply With QuoteThey're brand new watches, in the style of the originals.
Ok, so firstly I shall apologise if this is the stupidest question ever. But here goes...
I want to know more about the watches for sale on the TimeFactors website.
Now, I have figured out that they are made by the website owner, Eddie. However, from having a read of the website etc I believe the watches for sale are all old military watches. How is it possible for the watches to still be produced? Are they all originals? Are the re-issues? What's the score?
Again, apologies if this is an incredibly daft question! I am interested in the PRS3 and just wish to know more first.
They're brand new watches, in the style of the originals.
Doh!Originally Posted by Generous John
Ok, so I guess my next question is how is it possible to reproduce these watches with the original names?
....with design and / or material improvements over the originals. Have a good read of the descriptions Eddie attached to each watch on the site.
Eddie owns the names..
Cheers..
Jase
I understand that Eddie has purchased the brand names Precista, Smiths, Sewills and has set about recreating/enhancing the original designs. They are all brand new with newly manufactured components. Good way to get the design you like without the hassle of a vintage watch.
Thanks guys, I though something like that might have been the case.
Not just the right name on the dial (and legitimately, too) but reproducing their greatest hit from their back catalogue with new, improved spec (e.g. better battery life, better water-resistence, sapphire rather than glass crystal, etc etc.) Best of both worlds.
They are great watches.
Some further reading for the OP:
There is a thread somewhere about his Smiths trademark, but I cannot find it. You could look it up here: Search for a trade mark.
Thanks for the links, I'll be sure to read up on them!
Are they "made" by Eddie?,or for him by someone else?.
There's no manufacturing left in Sheffield mate; haven't you seen "The Full Monty"?
I believe the current watches are still all made for him by Fricker in Germany.
I'm not sure where his earliest ones were made over a decade ago, in spite of having one.
The value for money with his watches is excellent! Eddie is an enthusiast above all else and the profitable business model comes second. His watches would sell for much more if made elsewhere, or be built to lower spec with stock parts.
3 cheers for Eddie!!!
Yes he has people with tiny hands, and they smell of cabbage
Think designed and specified by Eddie with the manufacturing elsewhere under contract would be the best description. Take a wander through the Time Factors Watches forum to see various design threads, eg:
I do wish people would stop posting about this - they are ruining the mystery of it all
Cant we leave it all as a mystery wrapped in an enigma?
Do we have to destroy the images in peoples heads of old Yorkshire men in flat caps toiling away in a dark satanic mill near Chesterfield?
Or a mystic cottage in the hills overlooking Sheffield inhabited by toothless, overweight but nevertheless attractive women lovingly assembling magical watches?
Have you no sense of romance?
Do you tell your kids that fairies dont exist and there is no Santa Claus?
Bah, humbug! Yes. It stops them eating the washing when it has been hung out to dry on the rotrary dryer.
Here here! however Chesterfield or Chezvagas as it's known is in Derbyshire so any Yorkshireman worth his salt won't like the description and the mills had lots of large windows to let the light in so they are/ were far from dark and satanic from the inside.
However the women who assemble the watches have one very large eye in the centre of their foreheads and ten fingers on each hand !
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
I heard Dennison is coming back as a brand, and I heard their cases will be Made in UK. I might have heard wrong but fingers crossed. Anyone else heard owt about this?
Early watches made by Fricker, current ones by Roland Kemmner.
Didn't Zeno make some, and keep a few cases for themselves which explains why PRS 53s crop up from time to time on Ebay with Zeno branding?
By the way, my ma told me the day a virgin gets married in Chesterfield church the spire will straighten, has it happened yet?
Yep. Earliest by Zeno, then by Fricker and currently by Kemmner (I believe).
Dave E
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day
A couple of Eddie's threads:
- My visit to Zeno...pictures are dead
- Visit to Walter Fricker
Pictures restored.
Eddie
My edit: Thanks Eddie...I hadn't seen them before. Bob
Last edited by PickleB; 1st November 2015 at 18:48.
Pretty sure they'll be at SalonQP
Wow - I didn't see that coming - Eddie has dreadlocks!!!!!
Eddie
M.
Now I understand why my PRS18Q is so tough!
Eddie
Seriously for the OP - Eddie has done a fantastic job by legitimately reviving brand names that would otherwise have disappeared into the history books, and making the watches better than the originals with sapphire crystals, 'Viton' gaskets etc. He subcontracts the manufacture and Roland Kemmner made the two I'm mostly using at the moment, the quality is top rate.
Cheers,
Steve
Dreadlocks? Edd-locks!
Hope Dennison make a comeback, love their stuff: the Aquatite and 13322 are classic cases when housing an Omega or Smiths.
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