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Irish Watches

  • 30-03-2019 2:45pm
    #1
    2shea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 651 ✭✭✭


    Was there every any good Irish brand of watch?


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  • #2
    hitemfrank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭hitemfrank


    I assume we are outright excluding McManus in this right?


  • #3
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    McGonigle brothers Very high end stuff. They even showed up to a watch beers a few years ago. Nice guys by all accounts.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #4
    theheavyhitter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 105 ✭✭theheavyhitter


    2shea wrote: »
    Was there every any good Irish brand of watch?

    Yes, McGonnigle make excellent pieces.
    https://www.mcgonigle.ch/


  • #5
    theheavyhitter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 105 ✭✭theheavyhitter


    Wibbs wrote: »
    McGonigle brothers Very high end stuff. They even showed up to a watch beers a few years ago. Nice guys by all accounts.

    Great minds think alike. Both posted same, same time. Regards.


  • #6
    theheavyhitter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 105 ✭✭theheavyhitter


    hitemfrank wrote: »
    I assume we are outright excluding McManus in this right?

    Yes, I think rebranded Vostok s.hitters should be excluded.


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  • #7
    893bet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,380 ✭✭✭893bet


    OmegaGene wrote: »
    Super rare now after they were featured in the Sunday world

    None were delivered according to the comments on the kickstarter so extremely rare.

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1919328871/mcmanus-amphibia-automatic-dive-watch-made-in-irel/comments


  • #8
    893bet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,380 ✭✭✭893bet


    theheavyhitter wrote: »
    Yes, I think rebranded Vostok s.hitters should be excluded.

    Yet you sell them on adverts?


  • #9
    theheavyhitter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 105 ✭✭theheavyhitter


    893bet wrote: »
    Yet you sell them on adverts?

    You are mistaken.


  • #10
    893bet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,380 ✭✭✭893bet


    theheavyhitter wrote: »
    You are mistaken.

    No I am not.

    Wear it in good health.

    Your feedback speaks for itself.


  • #11
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Wibbs wrote: »
    McGonigle brothers Very high end stuff. They even showed up to a watch beers a few years ago. Nice guys by all accounts.

    What sort of prices are you talking?


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  • #12
    theheavyhitter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 105 ✭✭theheavyhitter


    Stheno wrote: »
    What sort of prices are you talking?

    50K+ Euro.


  • #13
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Stheno wrote: »
    What sort of prices are you talking?

    When the first 2 watches on their site are a minute repeater and a tourbillon, i know its out of my price range


  • #14
    Nolimits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Nolimits


    There's these lads as well https://saswatchco.com I have no idea about quality or anything, but for ages there were an ad for then on WUS whenever I went there.


  • #15
    theheavyhitter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 105 ✭✭theheavyhitter


    Nolimits wrote: »
    There's these lads as well https://saswatchco.com I have no idea about quality or anything, but for ages there were an ad for then on WUS whenever I went there.

    Firstly SAS wasn't a good brand name choice for an Irish watch company.
    Secondly; "Designed, assembled, regulated, and tested in Ireland".
    They neglect to mention the parts are all made in China.
    So one is buying a Chinese watch, assembled in Ireland.
    Rather like Federique Constant is Swiss made/assembled, from Citizen made Japanese parts.


  • #16
    funkyouup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭funkyouup


    Its a good thing trolls have catch phrases.


  • #17
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    893bet wrote: »
    None were delivered according to the comments on the kickstarter so extremely rare.

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1919328871/mcmanus-amphibia-automatic-dive-watch-made-in-irel/comments

    Stay away from that guy. A total piece of shít by all accounts. Literally a pimp according to this:

    https://www.donegaldaily.com/2014/07/06/donegal-castaway-man-is-exposed-as-prostitute-organiser/


  • #18
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,694 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Stay away from that guy. A total piece of shít by all accounts. Literally a pimp according to this:

    https://www.donegaldaily.com/2014/07/06/donegal-castaway-man-is-exposed-as-prostitute-organiser/

    Any wonder he has no time to make the watches, busy guy!


  • #19
    theheavyhitter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 105 ✭✭theheavyhitter


    Apparently Ansley watches are Irish made according to the dial. The caseback says "assembled in Ireland". Sold by Weirs etc.
    Personally I think they look like s.hitters made in China. Rather like an Irish version of Daniel Wellington.
    Maybe tourists are their target market? I honestly don't know.
    https://weirandsons.ie/watches/fashion-watches/ansley.html
    http://www.ansleywatches.com/all-watches/


  • #20
    893bet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,380 ✭✭✭893bet


    Now your just trolling.

    There is only one ****ter here.


  • #21
    theheavyhitter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 105 ✭✭theheavyhitter


    Told & Co. is owned by Tomás O'Leary.
    Strange he chose (with his Dutch designer of course), to put London on the dial, then Swiss made, under the 6.
    Tomás O'Leary is from Cork, so I don't get the London/Swiss logic there.
    But no doubt wife Julie, "PR and marketing professional"; knows what she is doing. Or maybe the Danish designer thought it looks cool.
    Swiss made, definitely not China.
    Julie, a former nurse from Leap in Co Cork, met Tomás at UCC.
    "I always envisaged that one day I would run my own business.
    "After studying at Michael Smurfit business school in 2011, I worked in London with [designer] Orla Kiely," she said.
    "It was a wonderful experience and fantastic exposure to such a successful brand, that is managed day-to-day by Orla's husband, Dermott Rowan who has been a great mentor to me."
    The couple's business partner is Alan Duggan and Tomás is also involved in a Redzone Recruitment in London, which specialises in the energy sector.
    https://www.toldandco.com/


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  • #22
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    893bet wrote: »
    Now your just trolling.

    There is only one ****ter here.

    You know what a troll hates? When people don't reply to them.


  • #23
    funkyouup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭funkyouup


    looks like he wasnt to the mods taste:pac:


  • #24
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    funkyouup wrote: »
    looks like he wasnt to the mods taste:pac:

    And he's gone!


  • #25
    funkyouup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭funkyouup


    It was a magical 3 days.


  • #26
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Wonder what did it in the end?


  • #27
    funkyouup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭funkyouup


    Largely his own retardation im assuming.


  • #28
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    OmegaGene wrote: »
    We need wibbs to give us the low down

    He was offline i think.


  • #29
    893bet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,380 ✭✭✭893bet


    I heard he got a big consignment of porridge in and had to go handle the delivery.

    Similar to his below.

    https://www.adverts.ie/17201398


  • #30
    funkyouup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭funkyouup


    Thats pretty good value for Odlums to be fair.


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  • #31
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    He was site banned as rereg of previously "troublesome" accounts. And that's that.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #32
    Flashwatches
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭Flashwatches


    theheavyhitter wrote: »
    Firstly SAS wasn't a good brand name choice for an Irish watch company.
    Secondly; "Designed, assembled, regulated, and tested in Ireland".
    They neglect to mention the parts are all made in China.
    So one is buying a Chinese watch, assembled in Ireland.
    Rather like Federique Constant is Swiss made/assembled, from Citizen made Japanese parts.

    This is incorrect. The majority of the parts in SAS watches are Swiss and German made. The name choice may not have been great for Ireland but there is no market for Irish watches in Ireland. The main market for SAS is the States.


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