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Also ordered as a present for a niece's upcoming birthday. Thanks, Rolex!

 

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Good grief I think Rolex would have bigger things to be concerned about than kids clocks.

Well their delicate buyers sure don't, so they have to represent and send in the heavies.

Rolex is the most ripped off company in the world. These are pretty much toys and doubt any one in the classroom would assume this is a genuine Rolex.

Apart from the famous "moron in a hurry", who Rolex seems to be siding with here.

Establishment of the “Moron in a Hurry” paradigm

“A Moron in a Hurry” is a formalized legal term used in the UK and Canada and the US. It was first established in a 1978 UK court case : The Morning Star Cooperative Society v Express Newspapers Li…

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Rolex is really being a bunch of oysters over this... "bearded" ones!

But in all seriousness, the clock in question might just help children appreciate analog clocks, and, yes, watches. Since most these days think such timepieces are stupid, with their cellphones, it might be wise if the watch companies were supportive of anything that might keep them from dying completely in the not so distant future. In some strange way, the oyster name might also actually prove to be a sort of 'subliminal' advertising for Rolex in the future to the children who see the clock today.

Rolex isn't in the watchmaking business, as its own chairman explained years ago.

When Rolex sent Oyster&Pop (I have one on the way now as a birthday gift for a youngster, seems like a cool bedroom wall accessory) a letter, it was actually sent to the owners by Rolex lawyers, saying "consumers will inevitably be misled into thinking that your products emanate from Rolex”.

I find it interesting. Rolex thinks all its customers are morons in a hurry. What's it like, being thought of as that stupid by the brand you lionise?

 

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I do like the popsicle stick hands on the Oyster & pop clock.

Stolen valor, it rips off <goes off to find unverified, uncited internet-only source that claims to know which brand first did lollipop hands> Rochefoucauld. Rochefoucauld should sue. Damn rip-off merchants stealing other people's ideas without paying up.

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Nice Oyster you've got there! Looks kind of like a Rolex though, they must be hopping mad you bought that by mistake

 

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Just got the call from the AD (Amazon Driver) and rushed out to
take delivery before they let it go to someone else.
Was half expecting to be ushered into the back of the van, plied with
champagne and given a goody bag, but no joy.
Now the proud owner of my very first (and almost certainly last) “Oyster”.
Loving the sweeping seconds hand, don’t often see that on a battery quartz.
It’s funny, every time I look at it I get this image of a shiny wristwatch in
my mind, no idea what it all means….


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Awesome. My (Rolex) Oyster & Popetual wristclock arrived on time and will be warmly received tomorrow morning (I've already cleared it with the people who count. That's not Rolex's lawyers or their acolytes btw. Just my sister and her husband )