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Thread #130626   Message #3022134
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
02-Nov-10 - 08:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Old Pocket Watches
Subject: RE: BS: Old Pocket Watches
Charles Hubert watches are satisfactory for the money. They are made of Chinese and Japanese parts and assembled in Hong Kong (also in Shanghai?).
A lifetime warranty is advertized but, like watches sold by Stauer, just what that means is questionable.
The "Charles Hubert Paris" is, of course, mis-leading. I think that they have stopped claiming that there was a designer named Charles Hubert.
They use some of the same parts used in Stauer watches (I have a 27-jewel automatic, as I think I posted a while back. Bought on impulse, just to see what they were like).
Stauer runs adds in the Smithsonian Magazine and elsewhere.

I will toss it in the garbage when it stops running.

The following note posted at NAWCC (North American Watch and Clock Collectors Club).
"........... The mechanical watches [Hubert] are made in Hong Kong. For the price, they are one of the better buys. Because they offer the lifetime warranty, they do not use the cheapest bidder in China to make their pocket watches."
"For service, contact:
Unitron Enterprise Corporation
3710 Rockwell Ave. Suite E
El Monte, CA 91731
800-221-1881
sales@unitronwatch.com"