How to pronounce watch brands

[Rob_R]

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! )

[Rob_R]

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]

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.