How to pronounce watch brands

How to pronounce watch brands

Author
Discussion

Rob_R

Original Poster:

2,428 posts

244 months

Wednesday 23rd June 2021
quotequote all
For a bit of fun shall we discuss how to pronounce watch brands as many of them have interesting pronunciations?

Quite a few of them I pronounced incorrectly for ages!

I'll start with a few:

Audemars Piguet - "Oh-de-mar pee-ghey"
Vacheron Constantin - "Va-sher-on con-stan-tan"
Breguet - "Breh-ghey"
A Lange & Sohne - "Aah long-ah oont sown-neh"
Glashutte - "Gl-ass-hooteh"
Tag Heuer - "Tag hoi-er"
Hoblot - "Ooh-blow"
Jaeger Le Coultre - "Yay-ger le-coolt" (The French way of saying Jaeger just sounds wrong to me)
Breitling - "Bright-ling"
Stowa - "Shtow-va"
Omega - Apparently all ways are correct! "Oh-meega", "Oh-mega", "Oh-may-ga"
Richard Mille - "Rik-ard mill" (Not sure about this one)
Piaget - "Pee-ah-zjay" ('zj' is like a sort of z and sh together sound. Basically a French 'g')
Blancpain - "Blonk-pan"
Chopard - "Show-par"
Ulysee Nardin - "You-lee-say nar-dan"

Any other you know of?

(I'm open to corrections and revisions on all the above! smile)


Fat hippo

732 posts

133 months

Wednesday 23rd June 2021
quotequote all
The Jaeger one I struggled with in the past. I tended to the way you described but i’ve heard it being pronounced something like ‘jay jay le coosh’ or something similar

Just get a Rolex. I can pronounce that

miniman

24,827 posts

261 months

Wednesday 23rd June 2021
quotequote all

Voldemort

6,089 posts

277 months

Wednesday 23rd June 2021
quotequote all
Rob_R said:
Any other you know of?
BRM - “B R M”
Tudor - “two door”


anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 23rd June 2021
quotequote all
Richard Mille - Ree Shard Meal
Panerai - Pan Err Eye

Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 23 June 21:26

super7

1,922 posts

207 months

Wednesday 23rd June 2021
quotequote all
Timex….. Thai - Mex

WhisperingWasp

1,450 posts

136 months

Wednesday 23rd June 2021
quotequote all
Rob_R said:
For a bit of fun shall we discuss how to pronounce watch brands as many of them have interesting pronunciations?

Quite a few of them I pronounced incorrectly for ages!

I'll start with a few:

Audemars Piguet - "Oh-de-mar pee-ghey"
Vacheron Constantin - "Va-sher-on con-stan-tan"
Breguet - "Breh-ghey"
A Lange & Sohne - "Aah long-ah oont sown-neh"
Glashutte - "Gl-ass-hooteh"
Tag Heuer - "Tag hoi-er"
Hoblot - "Ooh-blow"
Jaeger Le Coultre - "Yay-ger le-coolt" (The French way of saying Jaeger just sounds wrong to me)
Breitling - "Bright-ling"
Stowa - "Shtow-va"
Omega - Apparently all ways are correct! "Oh-meega", "Oh-mega", "Oh-may-ga"
Richard Mille - "Rik-ard mill" (Not sure about this one)
Piaget - "Pee-ah-zjay" ('zj' is like a sort of z and sh together sound. Basically a French 'g')
Blancpain - "Blonk-pan"
Chopard - "Show-par"
Ulysee Nardin - "You-lee-say nar-dan"

Any other you know of?

(I'm open to corrections and revisions on all the above! smile)
Agree with most of them but I would go:

- Aah Lang and Zone (not adding the extra syllable for some reason...?)
- Zhay-zher le-coolt (but JLC to be safe!)
- Ree-shard Mill
- Show-pard (do you not pronounce the 'd'?)

I am the first Omega; Oh-meega.

Edited by WhisperingWasp on Wednesday 23 June 21:55

smithyithy

7,192 posts

117 months

Wednesday 23rd June 2021
quotequote all
OP I don't know if you've seen this video as you have a lot of the pronunciations correct and many of those I learned / was corrected by this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8AyFs2uESg

It's a little bit, erm, pompus, but he does go through the actual correct pronunciations.

APontus

1,935 posts

34 months

Wednesday 23rd June 2021
quotequote all
Casio "Cah-zio"

Rob_R

Original Poster:

2,428 posts

244 months

Thursday 24th June 2021
quotequote all
smithyithy said:
OP I don't know if you've seen this video as you have a lot of the pronunciations correct and many of those I learned / was corrected by this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8AyFs2uESg

It's a little bit, erm, pompus, but he does go through the actual correct pronunciations.
Thanks for that one!

Rob_R

Original Poster:

2,428 posts

244 months

Thursday 24th June 2021
quotequote all
WhisperingWasp said:
Agree with most of them but I would go:

- Aah Lang and Zone (not adding the extra syllable for some reason...?)
Söhne definitely pronounced with the 'eh' a the end. Söhne is the plural of sohn in German. Sohn would be pronounced the way you have stated.



CardinalFang

639 posts

167 months

Thursday 24th June 2021
quotequote all
Rob_R said:
Söhne definitely pronounced with the 'eh' a the end. Söhne is the plural of sohn in German. Sohn would be pronounced the way you have stated.
wouldn't the umlaut change sown-eh to soon-eh? CF

ZesPak

24,421 posts

195 months

Thursday 24th June 2021
quotequote all
CardinalFang said:
wouldn't the umlaut change sown-eh to soon-eh? CF
I'm struggling to find an English word that sounds similar as the ö in Söhne, but "soon" is definitely not it.
More like when you pause in a sentence and use "eeuhm" if that makes sense.

SlimJim16v

5,617 posts

142 months

Thursday 24th June 2021
quotequote all
Rob_R said:
Omega - Apparently all ways are correct! "Oh-meega", "Oh-mega", "Oh-may-ga"

(I'm open to corrections and revisions on all the above! smile)
No, Omega is oh-mega, exactly how it's spelt. It's the English spelling of how the Greek letter is pronounced.

CardinalFang

639 posts

167 months

Thursday 24th June 2021
quotequote all
ZesPak said:
I'm struggling to find an English word that sounds similar as the ö in Söhne, but "soon" is definitely not it.
More like when you pause in a sentence and use "eeuhm" if that makes sense.
Correct! - That's the sound I was hearing in my head, but picked completely the wrong word to describe it! Doh!

Chs, CF

lockhart flawse

2,040 posts

234 months

Thursday 24th June 2021
quotequote all
IWC - eye double you see

Hope that helps someone....

MrJuice

3,300 posts

155 months

Thursday 24th June 2021
quotequote all
lockhart flawse said:
IWC - eye double you see

Hope that helps someone....
Lol

MrJuice

3,300 posts

155 months

Thursday 24th June 2021
quotequote all
Glashutte

Gla Suit Ay

GCH

3,984 posts

201 months

Thursday 24th June 2021
quotequote all



Maximus_Meridius101

1,222 posts

36 months

Thursday 24th June 2021
quotequote all
I massively rolleyes when someone ( usually not with the actual watch brand ) starts getting adenoidal with brand name pronunciation. “Ohhhh no, it’s Targ hoyer / bryyyyyytling / Partek phileeep” fk off. Just fk right off.