CNN tried to find the makers of Trump’s new ‘Swiss-made’ watches. We ended up at a shopping center in Wyoming
CNN tried to find the makers of Trump’s new ‘Swiss-made’ watches. We ended up at a shopping center in Wyoming
CNN searched for the maker of the candidate’s new ‘Swiss-made’ timepieces. The search dead-ended in a Wyoming shopping center.
To use the phrase "Swiss made" on a watch requires at least 60% of the production occur in Switzerland, 50% of the movement made and assembled in Switzerland, and technical development and final inspection must occur in Switzerland, but the trump watches only say "Swiss Made Tourbillon" and his tourbillon watch actually does use a Swiss made BCP Tourbillon T02 movement, BCP confirmed it to the Swiss press.
The other cheaper Trump watches say they are using Seiko NH34 and NH35 movements, which are good but standard movements that you can get in $200 watches.
They likely put these watches together on a watch building site where they clicked the parts they wanted then sent the specs off to be made in China.
BUT BUT BUT, seeee we totally said "Swiss-made", and not "Swiss Made". Totally different, bruh
Reminds me of that Homestar Runner line: "Mine's are shipped from a third-world country called Homemáde so I can legally print 'From Home Made' on the prepackaged package."
Yeah, but this is the US. They use the imperial system and omit 'u's from words like colour.
Smells like money laundering to me. Color me shocked.
They look as shitty as I imagined.
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lol so the Swiss government is probably going to come after him for that. They are famously protective of their image in that regard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edAnwu-e79M&t=275s&pp=ygUNdHJ1bXAgd2F0Y2hlcw%3D%3D
A review of the Trump watches.
spoiler
Spoiler alert: Now sit down for this because I know it'll be a shocker.....but the watches are overpriced crap.
"Well by 'Swiss-made' we meant partially made by someone with Swiss ancestry...except replace 'partially' with 'barely' and 'ancestry' with 'Miss'"
A Swiss journal reported about this as they identified and interviewed the watchmaker: https://www.letemps.ch/economie/horlogerie-joaillerie/donald-trump-propose-desormais-une-montre-swiss-made-a-100-000-dollars-dotee-d-un-mouvement-chaux-de-fonnier
However the article is ambiguous about what is actually made in Switzerland, sometime describing it as "the mechanism" and sometime as "the watch".
I'm sure they're total dogshit
Wait, so something he advertised as being made in another country may actually be made here in the USA? Am I understanding this right? If so, doesn't that make this the inverse of the red hats being made overseas, or does it still mean the same thing in that something implied to be made somewhere was made somewhere else?
It's not being made in the USA, it's being sold through a front company in the USA which smells of money laundering based on the descriptions of how they're set up. I guarantee they're China import garbage at absolute best.
The LLC calling it their headquarters doesn't mean anything is made there.
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