Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Victor, I am sure some of the eminent Leica historians on the list will give more detailed info, but as far as I know Leitz/Leica was owned (I do not know if it was wholly or partially) by some Swiss company/family during the 80s. To my knowledge, there was never any Leica factory here. Incidentally, Leica is quite popular here (I guess not surprising given the high average income in this country). Even many lowly neighbourhood camera stores carry at least a basic assortment of Leica (an M6, R8, the most popular lenses). Nathan Victor Wek wrote: > Is or was Leica company placed in Switzerland, in any time? Or may be any > part of Leica was there? Like it is now in Portugal. > > Recently, I attended a party and one guy from local theatre recognized > LeicaM camera immediately. And he was claiming that Leica factory is located > in Switzerland. I won 1$ bet by showing him “Made in Germany” mark on my > current M6. Form where he could take that idea? He told me this was in > newspaper. May be it was on fool day? > > Thanks, > Victor > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html