Reply With QuoteSearch function is your friendthere are several past posts some with audio links to correctly guide you how to pronounce the more exotic brand names.
I can't imagine that I'm the only one one on here whose knowledge is mostly from the written word?
Felt a bit of a dick today in a dealership talking about a possible Breuget trade pronouncing it as if the first syllable was brerr and the second as if an acute accent was present and the dealer quietly corrected me.
Please can the hive mind list proper pronunciations of those names that would trip up the apprentice WIS?
Search function is your friend
The Cooksey Shugart complete price guide to watches has a section at the back of the book on the pronunciation of most brands and watch terms
I always used to get Heuer wrong, trying to pronounce it in a French style of accent ... That was until I worked with a guy called Tim Heuer.
Might need to nail the spelling first
Posted many times before, but the Rolex one always raises a titter...
http://www.chronometrie.com/watchsou...soundspage.htm
Thank you!
Bugger me - scary thing is my pronunciation was based on my bad spelling!Originally Posted by ed335d
Might need to nail the spelling first
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Lange &Sohne sounds a little dodgy on that link.
Damn it, could be another fail from me 'cos I would do the same and say something like Hoy-er. Correct me please?
Hoy-er is totally correct!
Lange und Söhne should be pronounced sort of like " Lung-e oond zone-e" (without the German Umlaut Ö which sounds a bit different)
Oh BTW:
Stowa : Shtova
Agree that's the way I pronounce it now, Bvlgari though ....
I just noticed the Rolex one .... :-)
JLC ?
Jay El Sea
Very good :)Jay El Sea
How about Jaeger-LeCoultre?
It's been discussed at length and is most certainly Yay Yay, but then it gets all squishy - Le coo coo (seriously).
In certain circumstances, it is acceptable to use an abbreviation and I'd certainly say JLC provides that option.
I have always pronounced it Yaeger Li C'tour. Most probably very wrong. It's a bit strange owning a watch in which I can't pronounce the brand name. JLC usually works until somebody asks what it stands for.
With a surprising number of 'Z's I think.
Zhay-zher-le-coolt.
Well, that's how I do it. It's kind of part German, part French.
I find "Omega" an interesting one.
Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. Omega symbolically represents the last word in something.
Having spent many years studying Ancient Greek before taking the obvious career path into pawnbroking, I am naturally compelled to think of it onomatopoeically as the Hellenic "Omega" - big ( or perhaps "long" we might say ) O (the same sound as the french "eau"), rather than the short O of Omikron ( little O, as in "totty" ). Thus I would phonetically say Oh-megg-a.
However, in the recent "Casino Royale" we see Vesper admiring Bond's Omega in a stilted conversation on the train. No doubt Omega's product-placement chaps will have over-seen the correct shots / pronunciation of their brand......and Craig mumbles a definite "Uh-meeg-a."
For this reason alone I shall be mostly buying Rolex this year.
H
Bugger, I've just ordered a PRS18Q. Should I cancel my order?
Hehe, excellent.
No-one ever says "meega-byte" or "Meega-death" or "meega-lomania" so I think that "O-meega" despite being popular in the UK and Australia, amongst other places, is wrong on the basis that it's the same "-mega-". YMMV.
...but what do I know; I don't even like watches!
The correct pronounciation is Jae Jer le coolt. Not YAGER i went to the Paris boutique and they confirmed, also the CEO before on youtube pronounced it.
The correct pronunciation, in English, of the brand abbreviated to JLC is Shaggy Le Cuckoo.
I have not checked this year. but the three previous wristwatch annuals I have all had a pronunciation guide for the brands in them
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wristwatch-A.../dp/0789212021
I walked into the Beaverbrooks the other day and asked for a copy of Breitling Catalogue.
She gave me a wedding ring catalogue….
Is it me ?
You and I seem to agree on a short "e".......but surely Omega would have helped the Bond people pronounce it the way they felt it should be said? You can find the Bond Vesper Omega clip on youtube if you search for those words, and he definitely says it the meffy way :-)
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The correct pronunciation of Rolex is, Veb-len
I could be wrong, but I seem to recall reading that the CR pronunciation is the same as the way the president of the company pronounces it? Maybe they did help them?
Did they decide to change it like Dacia and "Dacha"?
I think your both trying to say the same thing but using the 'Z' for zhey-zher softens it sufficiently. Using the 'J' as above looks like it could be pronounced 'J jur'
It is certainly not 'Yay-ger' as Downey Jr calls it in Ironman II.
Clive Owen "officially" says JLC twice here
1:21 and 2:19
JeJerr Lecoultr by my reckoning
Yup. That's officially it then. ;-)
It amused me to find the correct pronunciation of Ollech and Wajs is in fact...
Ohlek and Vice.
I'm just a very naughty boy.
Good deals with- VINSTINK, kevkojak, Optimum, Omegary, seikoking, acg, SPEEDY, kfman, Card Shark, wajhart, Jot, danboy, zenomega, gaz64, minke, Mal52, Alas, norfolkngood, Sparky, rdwiow, mrteatime, gravedodger, joeytheghost, lordoftheflies, Silver Hawk, Filterlab, brooksy, marmisto, Fray Bentos, Bootsy, Harvey69, Mantisgb, bristolboozer, Jedadiah, newtohorology, Zephod, jimm1, Draygo, Raptor.
I may have forgot one or two, apppologies.
That's absolutely spot on. I had dinner with one of their Swiss technical directors after Salon QP, and that's how he pronounced it, as did one of their UK based sales managers.
I thought that Rado would be pronounced a little more phonetically...
one i always struggle with is audemars piguet.even reading it i have to slow down and think.easiest is iwc......!
And someone has kindly reproduced them half-way down this page...
http://omegaforums.net/threads/so-ho...ronounce.1617/
(WooHoo! 50 posts!)
Of course Chuck Zhey-zher wore a Row lecks gee em tea mass tuh
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