To use the phrase “Swiss made” on a watch requires at least 60% of the production occur in Switzerland, 50% of the movement made and assembled in Switzerland, and technical development and final inspection must occur in Switzerland, but the trump watches only say “Swiss Made Tourbillon” and his tourbillon watch actually does use a Swiss made BCP Tourbillon T02 movement, BCP confirmed it to the Swiss press.

The other cheaper Trump watches say they are using Seiko NH34 and NH35 movements, which are good but standard movements that you can get in $200 watches.

They likely put these watches together on a watch building site where they clicked the parts they wanted then sent the specs off to be made in China.

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lol so the Swiss government is probably going to come after him for that. They are famously protective of their image in that regard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edAnwu-e79M&t=275s&pp=ygUNdHJ1bXAgd2F0Y2hlcw%3D%3D

A review of the Trump watches.

“Well by ‘Swiss-made’ we meant partially made by someone with Swiss ancestry…except replace ‘partially’ with ‘barely’ and ‘ancestry’ with ‘Miss’”

I’m sure they’re total dogshit

A Swiss journal reported about this as they identified and interviewed the watchmaker: https://www.letemps.ch/economie/horlogerie-joaillerie/donald-trump-propose-desormais-une-montre-swiss-made-a-100-000-dollars-dotee-d-un-mouvement-chaux-de-fonnier

However the article is ambiguous about what is actually made in Switzerland, sometime describing it as “the mechanism” and sometime as “the watch”.

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Wait, so something he advertised as being made in another country may actually be made here in the USA? Am I understanding this right? If so, doesn’t that make this the inverse of the red hats being made overseas, or does it still mean the same thing in that something implied to be made somewhere was made somewhere else?