FxrAndy Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 For other work not watches Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuq Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 NOT in Alaska. From the angle of the sun at 3:00PM you're around 45 degrees north latitude? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gran Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 Brussels? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dluddy Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 Geneva? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star69 Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 ROLEX ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted January 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 2 degrees and 8 min off Nanuq but close Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuq Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 2 degrees and 8 min off Nanuq but close Drat! Missed it by that much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted January 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 Yep bit I have to say the place is not what I expected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooky driver Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 cool did you get any closer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbutlerman Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 Looks smaller than I thought it'd be... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanuq Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 Let's see, they drive on the right side of the road there, so not the UK. Lots of small cars crammed in tight... and a large yellow piece of heavy equipment preventing a building falling over.... Hobart, Tasmania. Except that's south latitude. Budapest, or Zurich. And your math sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 Well of course it's small, it takes a year to make each one remember Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wat44 Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 outside my house!!! [censored]!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 Geneva. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dluddy Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 It's not their only building.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 OMG....is it?...could it be?....Shiternand Ken 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dluddy Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Did you get to visit the Polex Factory while there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted January 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 No factory visits. And although there are multiple buildings here with the logo on the roof some look just like block of run down apartments. It made me think of the owned subsidized housing for miners bit the apartments looked worse. On the whole Biel disappoints there is not one rolly AD I could find in the whole town and the shops I did find like omega were not what you would expect. The whole town has a run down feel to it with what looks like a large Turkish ??? South eastern Europe population. Many of the Rolex buildings have the logo on the roof but then on the gates below have different company names as if the building is let out to another firm which may be the case since the new production facility has opened. If any one has thought of coming here to see where it began prepared to be disappointed unless you have a factory visit planed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valerian Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Yes, Biel is not exactly the place a typical Rollie fan would spend his holiday. It's your usual western Switzerland industrial town, cheap housing, many ethnies and an amazingly high crime rate for Swiss standards. Rolex does not represent here, they do that in their other sites in Geneva, if at all. But Rolex has invested serious money in Biel and is one of the major employers. This leads to a high advertising presence with Crown signs on many higher buildings, which are usually badly built 70ies appartement blocks in need of repair. Not many people who can afford to buy a gen Rolex would live in Biel. I imagine Rolex mid and upper management all live in small towns nearby. Wanna get real depressed? Go to Le Locle, Grenchen or La Chaux-de-Fonds. All major watch industry towns, all worse than Biel. Val. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted January 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 I have to say that Basel is one of the nicest places I have seen so far and the company there make for wonderful evenings. Thank you very much for the time Val and I have a great reason to come Mack again soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valerian Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 I have to say that Basel is one of the nicest places I have seen so far and the company there make for wonderful evenings. Thank you very much for the time Val and I have a great reason to come back again soon. Thank you, A! It was a fantastic evening and I learned a ton of new stuff about watches. Looking forward to the next time. All the best Val. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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