I want to buy a Swiss watch brand with history

I want to buy a Swiss watch brand. This brand should have history. Whether the watches of this brand is being made or not. Please tell me the price.

Invicter.

87 cents.

Renato.

1280.06 Italian Lira
http://coinmill.com/ITL_USD.html#ITL=1280.06

a Millien $dollers!

I 800 givashit. Ask for Michael Davis

Wait a minute. The OP said he has a Swiss watch brand already

Joyzhuo; Useless Troll

codguy wrote:Renato.

1280.06 Italian Lira
http://coinmill.com/ITL_USD.html#ITL=1280.06

Ass hat! Renato is Italian!

boscoe wrote:Ass hat! Renato is Italian!

About as Italian as the flied lice I had for dinner...

if your ever lucky enough to find an Invicta at MSRP, don't hesitate to snatch that bad boy up.
don't be an idiot and make the same mistake I did.

May I recommend the currently moribund Siegfried Koernhoeller und Sohne brand. Originally founded in 1822 in Geneva to exclusively supply pocket watches to the Vatican Swiss Guards.

S. Koernhoeller pioneered a 4 hand design in which the two extra hands could be set to indicate lunchtime and the afternoon hot chocolate break. Additionally they developed the very first cuckoo chiming pocketwatch which, in conjunction with the above mentioned complications, gave their products considerable cachet among the homesick Swiss lads in Rome.

Company history shows steady, if not spectacular growth in this field up until just prior to WWI when Siegfried's eldest son Eberhard Koernhoeller, at the request of the Swiss government, developed a pocket sized timekeeping device (using the cuckoo complication) specifically tailored to indicate when Emmentaler cheese was at it's ripest - Der Grosse Kase Zeitziechen - that could be used by simple Swiss dairymen. Ready availability of these timepieces was deemed so important to the Swiss economy that the government provided subsidies to cheesemakers for their purchase. The future seemed bright for Koernhoeller und Sohne.

World War I saw a downturn in the Koernhoeller firm's fortunes, though, as Marine chronometers supplied under contract by the firm for use by the Swiss Navy in dreadnought battleships proved to be unequal to the task in that the cuckoo could not be heard above the firing of the main gun batteries.

The firm struggled, the Swiss Guard pocketwatches being the only product that kept them in business. With the post-war popularity of wrist-watches, even this source of livelihood seemed in peril.

It was left to Irmentraute, Eberhard's precocious daughter, to bring the stodgy tradition-bound firm into the burgeoning Jazz Age by suggesting that, through the use of improved machine tools, the famed "Koernhoeller Cuckoo" could be miniaturized to such an extent that it would be possible to incorporate it into a timepiece that could be worn on the wrist and be no bigger than a squirrel's head!

This "Eichhornchen Uhr" proved quite popular amongst the jaded "Lost Generation" during the days of the Weimar Republic and it was not uncommon to hear the tiny "cuckoo, cuckoo" of several "Squirrel Watches" chiming all at once in the smoky cabarets and beerhalls of Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

Legend has it that the deposed Kaiser Wilhelm II, living in exile in Doorn, Holland owned a custom made quadruple cuckoo Squirrel Watch given to him by "Foundations of the 19th Century" author Houston Stewart Chamberlain.

As the ill-fated Weimar Republic crumbled at the onslought of National Socialism in Germany, Irmentraute's headstrong eldest son Willy (she had 8 - Wilhelm, Klaus, August, Albert, Ernst, Max, Manfred and Hermann), took a step that was to lead to the venerable firm's ruin. Willy contrived a modification of the Koernhoeller Cuckoo that instead of chiming the hours with a cheerful "cuckoo, cuckoo", annnounced the time with a hearty "Sieg Heil!" Needless to say, these were soon all the rage in National Socialist circles. There is a regrettably incomplete entry in the firm's ledgers that seems to show the purchase of 1000 of these "Nazitickers" (as they were known) to the head of the Sturmabteilung, Hitler's Brownshirts, Ernst Roehm, who distributed them among his loyal minions. It may also be remembered that Lord Haw Haw, the British traitor turned Nazi broadcaster would frequently announce the time on air using his "Naziticker". "Sieg Heil! Seig Heil! Seig Heil!" would sound the mechanism followed by Lord Haw Haw's upper class intonation, "Thwee o'cwock, I see. Wondaw how youah boys at Dunkirk aw doing? Pity, such pweasant fewwows."

Even though the firm was based in (officially, at least) neutral Switzerland, most company records were destroyed during the war. It is known however, that Koernhoeller did have a sub rosa factory in Germany that produced bomb fuses with the patented cuckoo timer. Elderly Londoners can still recall with terror the dreadful "cuckoo, cuckoo" sound of the falling bombs. To the lasting shame of a once honorable name, this factory was staffed solely by French laborers deported from France by the Vichy government on account of their flagrant homosexuality. Liberation of this camp by the Allies found many of these so called "hintertur knaben" ("backdoor boys") with broken fingernails, tear-stained faces and a peculiar inability to sit down for more than a few minutes at a time.

It is on this basis that the firm was indicted by the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal. A wanted man, Willy fled Europe just ahead of the Nazi hunters. It it surmised that he was able to board the last uninterned Swiss naval u-boat (commanded by his brother Albert) with $6 million in gold and thus make his escape to Paraguay where he lived out the remainder of his life as Senor Reloje.

The remaining Koernhoeller sons were brought to the dock at Nuremburg and although eventually exonerated, the firm was forced to give up its exclusive patent to the "Koernhoeller Cuckoo", making it freely available to any taker.

Without their proprietary property, and the loss of all but their original obsolete factory and barred by their Nazi associations even from their traditional sales to the Vatican, the once grand house of Koernhoeller und Sohne lost all hope of a post war return to their former glory.

With a loan from the Swiss government under the Marshall Plan and a mysterious south American benefactor, the company continued for another 20 years, reduced to producing the worst sort of pornographic mechanical automata watches for sale at Berlin piss bars, louche bathhouses and for the "Turkish" trade.

Finally, in 1967, the firm's revenues and reputation having sunk lower and lower, Klaus' only son Jimmy, one of only two surviving Koernhoeller heirs, took his own life by shooting himself eight times in the back with his uncle Hermann's luger. This was truly a tragic end for a pioneering watchmaking firm and a world respected brand name.

What remains of the Koernhoeller legacy, the legal ownership of the name alone, falls, alas, to me as the sole remaining heir. I am reluctantly prepared to part with it for the sum of no less than 4.9 million Swiss francs - knowing that the proud tradition of Koernhoeller innovation and integrity will continue under new ownership.

Joyzhuo, please contact me at your earliest convenience.

Falstaff, if Joyzhuo backs out of the deal, let me know. I have the perfect brand ambassador lined up.

Falstaff wrote:May I recommend the currently moribund Siegfried Koernhoeller und Sohne brand. Originally founded in 1822 in Geneva to exclusively supply pocket watches to the Vatican Swiss Guards.

S. Koernhoeller pioneered a 4 hand design in which the two extra hands could be set to indicate lunchtime and the afternoon hot chocolate break. Additionally they developed the very first cuckoo chiming pocketwatch which, in conjunction with the above mentioned complications, gave their products considerable cachet among the homesick Swiss lads in Rome.

Company history shows steady, if not spectacular growth in this field up until just prior to WWI when Siegfried's eldest son Eberhard Koernhoeller, at the request of the Swiss government, developed a pocket sized timekeeping device (using the cuckoo complication) specifically tailored to indicate when Emmentaler cheese was at it's ripest - Der Grosse Kase Zeitziechen - that could be used by simple Swiss dairymen. Ready availability of these timepieces was deemed so important to the Swiss economy that the government provided subsidies to cheesemakers for their purchase. The future seemed bright for Koernhoeller und Sohne.

World War I saw a downturn in the Koernhoeller firm's fortunes, though, as Marine chronometers supplied under contract by the firm for use by the Swiss Navy in dreadnought battleships proved to be unequal to the task in that the cuckoo could not be heard above the firing of the main gun batteries.

The firm struggled, the Swiss Guard pocketwatches being the only product that kept them in business. With the post-war popularity of wrist-watches, even this source of livelihood seemed in peril.

It was left to Irmentraute, Eberhard's precocious daughter, to bring the stodgy tradition-bound firm into the burgeoning Jazz Age by suggesting that, through the use of improved machine tools, the famed "Koernhoeller Cuckoo" could be miniaturized to such an extent that it would be possible to incorporate it into a timepiece that could be worn on the wrist and be no bigger than a squirrel's head!

This "Eichhornchen Uhr" proved quite popular amongst the jaded "Lost Generation" during the days of the Weimar Republic and it was not uncommon to hear the tiny "cuckoo, cuckoo" of several "Squirrel Watches" chiming all at once in the smoky cabarets and beerhalls of Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

Legend has it that the deposed Kaiser Wilhelm II, living in exile in Doorn, Holland owned a custom made quadruple cuckoo Squirrel Watch given to him by "Foundations of the 19th Century" author Houston Stewart Chamberlain.

As the ill-fated Weimar Republic crumbled at the onslought of National Socialism in Germany, Irmentraute's headstrong eldest son Willy (she had 8 - Wilhelm, Klaus, August, Albert, Ernst, Max, Manfred and Hermann), took a step that was to lead to the venerable firm's ruin. Willy contrived a modification of the Koernhoeller Cuckoo that instead of chiming the hours with a cheerful "cuckoo, cuckoo", annnounced the time with a hearty "Sieg Heil!" Needless to say, these were soon all the rage in National Socialist circles. There is a regrettably incomplete entry in the firm's ledgers that seems to show the purchase of 1000 of these "Nazitickers" (as they were known) to the head of the Sturmabteilung, Hitler's Brownshirts, Ernst Roehm, who distributed them among his loyal minions. It may also be remembered that Lord Haw Haw, the British traitor turned Nazi broadcaster would frequently announce the time on air using his "Naziticker". "Sieg Heil! Seig Heil! Seig Heil!" would sound the mechanism followed by Lord Haw Haw's upper class intonation, "Thwee o'cwock, I see. Wondaw how youah boys at Dunkirk aw doing? Pity, such pweasant fewwows."

Even though the firm was based in (officially, at least) neutral Switzerland, most company records were destroyed during the war. It is known however, that Koernhoeller did have a sub rosa factory in Germany that produced bomb fuses with the patented cuckoo timer. Elderly Londoners can still recall with terror the dreadful "cuckoo, cuckoo" sound of the falling bombs. To the lasting shame of a once honorable name, this factory was staffed solely by French laborers deported from France by the Vichy government on account of their flagrant homosexuality. Liberation of this camp by the Allies found many of these so called "hintertur knaben" ("backdoor boys") with broken fingernails, tear-stained faces and a peculiar inability to sit down for more than a few minutes at a time.

It is on this basis that the firm was indicted by the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal. A wanted man, Willy fled Europe just ahead of the Nazi hunters. It it surmised that he was able to board the last uninterned Swiss naval u-boat (commanded by his brother Albert) with $6 million in gold and thus make his escape to Paraguay where he lived out the remainder of his life as Senor Reloje.

The remaining Koernhoeller sons were brought to the dock at Nuremburg and although eventually exonerated, the firm was forced to give up its exclusive patent to the "Koernhoeller Cuckoo", making it freely available to any taker.

Without their proprietary property, and the loss of all but their original obsolete factory and barred by their Nazi associations even from their traditional sales to the Vatican, the once grand house of Koernhoeller und Sohne lost all hope of a post war return to their former glory.

With a loan from the Swiss government under the Marshall Plan and a mysterious south American benefactor, the company continued for another 20 years, reduced to producing the worst sort of pornographic mechanical automata watches for sale at Berlin piss bars, louche bathhouses and for the "Turkish" trade.

Finally, in 1967, the firm's revenues and reputation having sunk lower and lower, Klaus' only son Jimmy, one of only two surviving Koernhoeller heirs, took his own life by shooting himself eight times in the back with his uncle Hermann's luger. This was truly a tragic end for a pioneering watchmaking firm and a world respected brand name.

What remains of the Koernhoeller legacy, the legal ownership of the name alone, falls, alas, to me as the sole remaining heir. I am reluctantly prepared to part with it for the sum of no less than 4.9 million Swiss francs - knowing that the proud tradition of Koernhoeller innovation and integrity will continue under new ownership.

Joyzhuo, please contact me at your earliest convenience.

BTW, this is the finest post in the history of--well, the internet.

Thanks conjuror - but shhhhh, you'll scare the fish.

lmao @ the troll getting trolled...

Bravo Herr Falstauffen...........that is some funny shit....i don't care who you are........

conjurer wrote:
BTW, this is the finest post in the history of--well, the internet.

Damn skippy. Wow...I hope more idiots make stupid posts, because stuff like this makes it all worth it. Totally in awe.

Fucking excellent work Falstaff.

the history of many of the other old watch companies dont compare to koernhoellers' rich history. I'm saddened that they went out of business. I'll keep my eye out for one of their vintage timepieces. thanks for posting

timc. wrote:the history of many of the other old watch companies dont compare to koernhoellers' rich history. I'm saddened that they went out of business. I'll keep my eye out for one of their vintage timepieces. thanks for posting

what he said

Please send me e-mail if you have a watch brand for sale. zhuofengxian@hotmail.com

I want to know something about Rofina. Who know it?Who has the history of Rofina watch?

Joyzhuo wrote: I want to know something about Rofina. Who know it? Who has the history of Rofina watch?

Shit - someone stole Rofina's history?? Fuckers!!!

There will be no peace on the internets until that history is returned!!!!!!

Joyzhuo wrote: Please send me e-mail if you have a watch brand for sale. zhuofengxian@hotmail.com

So, Falstaff, it looks like Joyzhou passed on your kind offer of the Koernhoeller brand. Well, no matter--however I'm glad to see the thread bumped, I could read this every morning and laugh hard. Falstaff, you are truly a Nigerian Prince among men.

WatchDorks.Net wrote:

boscoe wrote:Ass hat! Renato is Italian!

About as Italian as the flied lice I had for dinner...

They use €'s in Italy anyway...not liras