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  1. 3rd January 2019, 14:56 #1
    swanbourne
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    Remember the man who tried to hi-jack my Precista trademark?

    His name is Martin Schneider of Swiss Military Watch. His efforts came to nothing as I successfully opposed his trademark application in the US and registered it myself, and I was also successful in getting the domains precista.com and precista.co.uk taken from him and transferred to myself.

    You'd think he'd learnt his lesson but no, he's now marketing a "Dreadnought" watch but rather cleverly the watch itself is not marked "Dreadnought". Several dealers have been selling these through eBay and I've now successfully had 12 listings removed via the VeRO (Verified Rights Owner) program run by eBay.

    It's a pity he doesn't have anything better to do.

    http://www.swiss-military.com/models...naught-tt.html

    Eddie
    Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
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  2. 3rd January 2019, 14:59 #2
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    Can we all just take a moment to consider how absolutely terrible that date magnification cyclops is.
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  3. 3rd January 2019, 15:13 #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bonesey View Post
    Can we all just take a moment to consider how absolutely terrible that date magnification cyclops is.
    That's a good spot. They've just whacked a date magnifier-looking shape on top of the rendering without actually thinking about what it would actually do to what's beneath.
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    How much?

    And the website is unnavigable on the iPhone with the instant click picture enlargement. Total dog's dinner.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Onelasttime View Post
    How much?

    Total dog's dinner.
    As above.
    F.T.F.A.
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    Amusing that he is also trying to market a watch called the "Panzer" with references to Winston Churchill and the British Army ...


    The range includes several expensive quartz watches and is devoid of any design flair or taste from what I can see ... probably why he feels the need to "borrow" stuff from other people.
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    $1869! Surely that can't be US dollars?
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    I wonder if he and Mr McManus of the Vostok fame went to the same school.
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    From the website (link):

    BASELWORLD 2019

    The world's most important watch and jewelry show, the BASELWORLD will be held between March 21st and March 26th 2019

    VISIT US THERE


    Anyone going...? Will he really be there?
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  10. 3rd January 2019, 21:01 #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by PickleB View Post
    From the website (link):
    BASELWORLD 2019

    The world's most important watch and jewelry show, the BASELWORLD will be held between March 21st and March 26th 2019

    VISIT US THERE


    Anyone going...? Will he really be there?
    They were there last year.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdLZ...O76AqkLe6044F8

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    What a batsard. Snider indeed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PickleB View Post
    From the website (link):
    BASELWORLD 2019

    The world's most important watch and jewelry show, the BASELWORLD will be held between March 21st and March 26th 2019

    VISIT US THERE


    Anyone going...? Will he really be there?
    Don't know about him but I shall be there 😀
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  13. 4th January 2019, 08:40 #13
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    He does do a nice Smyths everest though Eddie .
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  14. 4th January 2019, 12:03 #14
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    Apparently Schneider is no longer connected with SMW but he's still doing Tawatec and other bits. SMW have amended their website so it no longer says "Dreadnought", it's now the "Invincible".

    Eddie
    Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
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    How do you say "zum Kotzen" in English?
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    Quote Originally Posted by ChronoCop View Post
    How do you say "zum Kotzen" in English?
    Disgusting.

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    Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
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  17. 4th January 2019, 19:39 #17
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    Quote Originally Posted by swanbourne View Post
    Apparently Schneider is no longer connected with SMW but he's still doing Tawatec and other bits. SMW have amended their website so it no longer says "Dreadnought", it's now the "Invincible".

    Eddie
    Just as well he never put 'Dreadnought' on the dial then....
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  18. 4th January 2019, 23:13 #18
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    Quote Originally Posted by KAS118 View Post
    Just as well he never put 'Dreadnought' on the dial then....
    I could have got significant damages if he had.

    Eddie
    Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
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  19. 3rd February 2019, 05:32 #19
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    Quote Originally Posted by swanbourne View Post
    Apparently Schneider is no longer connected with SMW but he's still doing Tawatec and other bits. SMW have amended their website so it no longer says "Dreadnought", it's now the "Invincible".

    Eddie
    It still says Dreadnought on this page, look at the last two watches:

    http://www.swiss-military.com/models/navy.html
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  20. 3rd February 2019, 16:49 #20
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    Quote Originally Posted by Saxon007 View Post
    It still says Dreadnought on this page, look at the last two watches:

    http://www.swiss-military.com/models/navy.html
    So it does.

    Without wishing to get put in the stocks - the Marlin is actually quite nice - I liked the lumed numbers
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  21. 3rd February 2019, 17:10 #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by KAS118 View Post
    So it does.

    Without wishing to get put in the stocks - the Marlin is actually quite nice - I liked the lumed numbers
    But what happens if you follow the links on those pages...www.swiss-military.com/models/navy/dreadnaught.html & www.swiss-military.com/models/navy/dreadnaught-tt.html?
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  22. 4th January 2019, 12:57 #22
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    Hard to translate exactly, depends on the sentence, sickening or sucks could work.
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  23. 4th January 2019, 14:42 #23
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    It's like hitting a cockroach full of eggs, you squash it and they turn up in even greater force.

    What a load of crap, invincible my arse.
    Got a new watch, divers watch it is, had to drown the bastard to get it!
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  24. 6th January 2019, 12:45 #24
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    This one's still for sell on e-bay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-Swiss...Md-X:rk:4:pf:0
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  25. 6th January 2019, 13:14 #25
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    Not the same I know, but this cropped for sale this morning on a French forum. 220 Euros if you're interested.



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  26. 6th January 2019, 13:36 #26
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    Quote Originally Posted by KAS118 View Post
    This one's still for sell on e-bay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-Swiss...Md-X:rk:4:pf:0
    I know, the seller refuses to amend his listing so I've reported it to VeRO (Verified Rights Owner). The problem with this is, by the time they do anything the listing has often ended. I've had 12 of these Dreadnoughts removed so far.

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  27. 14th January 2019, 19:23 #27
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    Credit where credit's due, I don't think they pinched testing WR with a fire engine off anyone...

    http://www.swiss-military.com/models...-000-feet.html
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  28. 27th January 2019, 21:11 #28
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    Whoa, now THAT’s some overpricing!

    You’d think with all that income he could afford a proof reader to use commas in the prices rather than apostrophes.
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