Any knowledge of Sicura?

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I notice that Creation are now selling Sicura watches, right in my preferred price point at under £100.

Anyone know anything about these, look sturdy and certainly big enough for my over sized wrists.

[marcosgt]

The OLD Sicura company bought Breitling, so effectively Sicura are now Breitling, but I presume this name has lapsed and been snapped up by some Chinese brand.

No idea if Creation's Sicuras are any good I'm afraid though.

Here's a 'proper' Sicura



M

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Thanks.

So cheap and some curiosity value, Christ I don't really need another watch but it's becoming tempting.

[GC8]

Breitling are indeed really Sicura. Post-failure Breitling owners tend to get a little frosty when you point this out.

Some throw their toys out of their pram.

[marcosgt]

GC8 said:

Breitling are indeed really Sicura. Post-failure Breitling owners tend to get a little frosty when you point this out.

Some throw their toys out of their pram.

Breitling are hardly alone in having been bought though...

Owning a pre-failure, post-failure Breitling and a Sicura, they all have virtues.

I don't the history of ALL makes, but you could probably do the same game with nearly every make...

M.

[Hoofy]

Hm. I'm not sure the Sicuras on Creation's site are collectable like they say. The old Sicuras are mildly collectable, though.

I do have a world time diver's one. It has "Saigon" as one of the cities.

[GC8]

marcosgt said:

GC8 said:

Breitling are indeed really Sicura. Post-failure Breitling owners tend to get a little frosty when you point this out.

Some throw their toys out of their pram.

Breitling are hardly alone in having been bought though...

Owning a pre-failure, post-failure Breitling and a Sicura, they all have virtues.

I don't the history of ALL makes, but you could probably do the same game with nearly every make...

M.

They weren't 'bought' in the context that I believe that you mean. They stopped trading and all assets were sold (mostly to O&W). The name was sold to Sicura, but that was pretty much it - the name in an envelope.

[marcosgt]

GC8 said:

marcosgt said:

GC8 said:

Breitling are indeed really Sicura. Post-failure Breitling owners tend to get a little frosty when you point this out.

Some throw their toys out of their pram.

Breitling are hardly alone in having been bought though...

Owning a pre-failure, post-failure Breitling and a Sicura, they all have virtues.

I don't the history of ALL makes, but you could probably do the same game with nearly every make...

M.

They weren't 'bought' in the context that I believe that you mean. They stopped trading and all assets were sold (mostly to O&W). The name was sold to Sicura, but that was pretty much it - the name in an envelope.

True, I did know it wasn't bought as a going concern. Hence the Sinn 'Navitimers'

Still, as an old and new Breitling owner (and a Sicura one), I don't feel any negativity.

Odd, then, that Sicura (As a name) also seems to have been sold (or reused, at least, I guess these thing lapse if not registered).

M.

[GC8]

My (complete) guess that the name had been allowed to lapse, like Smiths and Precista et al, and the registered by an enterprising chancer.