Rotary swiss watch?

Like I said on the other thread - Swiss made can be had for around €30 new (if you buy a Swatch watch).

Just like chocolates - Swiss doesn't have to be expensive.

A good watch is a good watch no matter where it is made - that Citizen might have a few components made in China... Some VW Polos are made in Brazil not Germany etc. etc.

Living in a globalised world it just means that "made in" doesn't mean much actually. Prada shoes are "made in" Italy...but most of the materials and 90% of shoe is manufactured in Eastern Europe and then the sole or upper is inserted in Italy... doesn't mean that the workmanship is bad - it's just that luxury brands sometimes want to associate a location with quality (or disassociate themselves from "cheap" places).

Take Luxottica for example - probably makes every sunglasses in the world (they own all the license brands I think) - but their products are segmented from luxury (Ray-ban) to cheap and everything in-between.

Same for underwear - the luxury lines are often made right beside the ones being shipped out to Penneys and the like. Of course they make them to different grades but it's all made in the same place.

One Chinese company (Da Vinci) was quite funny - they made all their furniture in China, shipped it to Italy, got some legal maneuvering in place, and then shipped them back to China to sell to Chinese consumers as "made in Italy"... the goods were exactly the same, but Chinese consumers would only buy it if it was made in Italy and not China

On the other hand - sometimes it pays to buy EU goods even if the exact same is available elsewhere - here we have the concept of A, B, C grade of goods - sometimes C grade stuff is kept in China to sell on the domestic market and A-B grade is sent off to EU/US. So buying a Chinese Dell laptop and Irish Dell of the exact same specifications could be slightly different (taking Dell as a random example - not sure if they use different grades for different markets).