Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mikiro Comparing Leica vs. digital (today) to swiss watch manufacturers vs. quartz (70ies) makes quite sense. Only the top swiss brands with the upperclass mechanical watches have survived this battle. Meanwhile, many things have changed. Most of these brands (not IWC) and especially the heart of this industry, the clockwork manufactury ETA, are today owned by the Swatch group - a swiss company, too, but making it's money with - quartz watches! So the analogy could be Swatch = Cosina?... But expecting the Solmsers to be wise is definitely another question :-( Didier A Fortis Spacematic Chronograph Alarm fan >...I can only hope that Leica will be wise enough to survive the digital >and L vs Z wars as not a few Swiss watch >companies did the quartz war. >MIKIRO >an IWC fan