Reply With QuoteInteresting! Strange how they refer to the Hublot brand as being so recognisable, my otherhalf and most my non wis friends would all know Rolex, Omega and Tag Heuer for sure but Hublot :?
Intresting little read from the watchuseek forum .
http://www.watchuseek.com/how-famous...t-their-names/
Interesting! Strange how they refer to the Hublot brand as being so recognisable, my otherhalf and most my non wis friends would all know Rolex, Omega and Tag Heuer for sure but Hublot :?
Neither I nor the native Francophone sitting next to me can see how "les longines" translates to "the long meadows". Clarification would be appreciated.
If I remember correctly, Longines is from a Swiss dialect, not French.
I'm a native francophone and it's not so hard for me to get a feel for an old French noun built out of the adjective "long"….Originally Posted by seffrican
I get the impression that the article should have replaced this "as recognizable as Rolex to the younger generation" with "as recognizable as Rolex to the younger generation of extraordinarily wealthy Instagram kids".
Always found the name Zenith to the most inspiring of all
I can't see the bit where they explain why Omega is called Omega.
"They called it something else then they called it Omega."
Even as a non-francophone I can get the feel, I was hoping someone would supply some etymology.
I thought rolex came from his admiration of RollsRoyces opulence, class and exclusivity, yet the manufacturing skills of mass produced timex, hence ROL…EX
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Popular myth, but untrue, the fact is no one actually knows where the name came from not even Hans Wilsdorf, it just came to him
I thought/expected that Longines came from the classical scholar Longinus, who is credited with 'On The Sublime', a treatise on aesthetics & criticism.
Perhaps Agassiz called the company after Saint Longinus, who gave Jesus the last of his five Holy Wounds?
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Jim.
Interesting article, didn't know this :)
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