Originally Posted by
koimaster
I am always amazed at some of my fellow American collectors, some who have no idea what is out there other than Invicta, Renato and other TV cable brands. In fact, there is at least one forum out there, which was finally outed as sponsored by Invicta after a year of pretending it was not. Criticize the brand too much and out you go. If you mention brands like Stowa, Nomos, Sothis, Speake-Marin or many of the smaller German and Swiss made brands, there is silence on the forum until someone does a Google search.
I have had many so-called collectors of Invicta brands tell me emphatically that the SubAqua Noma model is NOT a copy of the Zenith Defy even when you show them photos. I own a few Philip watches and a couple of Breguet. One person saw a photo of my type XXI and told me it was a nice homage of the Philip Admiral. Astounding to me how small a world some live in.