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Re: Random image thread.
« Reply #4410 on: November 25, 2011, 03:20:06 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on November 25, 2011, 03:13:40 PM
As anyone who has ever sold clocks and watches will tell you the hands should always be set at 10 past 10 and the timepiece should never be displayed working.


Having managed a jewellers shop (F Hinds Ltd in Southampton) I can assure you that if you don't display the time as shown above there is always some cvnt who will come in to buy a watch and when the assistant says "Any particular one?" the aforementioned cvnt will reply "The one that's right".


If I had a £ for every time I heard that over the years   Banghead Banghead Banghead

Why\?
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Re: Random image thread.
« Reply #4411 on: November 25, 2011, 03:24:01 PM »
Quote from: Nick (GC First class) on November 25, 2011, 03:20:06 PM
Quote from: Snoopy on November 25, 2011, 03:13:40 PM
As anyone who has ever sold clocks and watches will tell you the hands should always be set at 10 past 10 and the timepiece should never be displayed working.


Having managed a jewellers shop (F Hinds Ltd in Southampton) I can assure you that if you don't display the time as shown above there is always some cvnt who will come in to buy a watch and when the assistant says "Any particular one?" the aforementioned cvnt will reply "The one that's right".


If I had a £ for every time I heard that over the years   Banghead Banghead Banghead

Why\?

Because it looks neat in the window, all clocks and watches showing the same time. The hands are at an acceptable angle so that they can be viewed and it stops silly cvnts from saying "The one that's right".

Check out any jewellers window display. Digital watches are, by convention, normally displayed at 00.00 and not working or you get the same problem.
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Re: Random image thread.
« Reply #4412 on: November 25, 2011, 03:44:37 PM »
Perhaps I should add that back in 1970 when I managed the shop there were few battery operated watches around.  There were some 500 watches and 150 clocks on display. Can you imagine the problems if I'd had to strip the window every morning, reset and wind all the watches and clocks and then redress the window? No way would I have had the time (geddit?) to do that AND as the day progressed they would start to show various times .... OK perhaps only by a couple of minutes but ......
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Re: Random image thread.
« Reply #4413 on: November 25, 2011, 04:24:44 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on November 25, 2011, 03:13:40 PM
Having managed a jewellers shop . . .

Yes, of course.   whistle:


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Re: Random image thread.
« Reply #4414 on: November 25, 2011, 04:35:01 PM »
Quote from: Darwins Selection on November 25, 2011, 04:24:44 PM
Quote from: Snoopy on November 25, 2011, 03:13:40 PM
Having managed a jewellers shop . . .

Yes, of course.   whistle:




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Re: Random image thread.
« Reply #4415 on: November 25, 2011, 04:37:10 PM »
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Re: Random image thread.
« Reply #4416 on: November 25, 2011, 06:24:08 PM »
Quote from: Nick (GC First class) on November 25, 2011, 03:20:06 PM
Quote from: Snoopy on November 25, 2011, 03:13:40 PM
As anyone who has ever sold clocks and watches will tell you the hands should always be set at 10 past 10 and the timepiece should never be displayed working.


Having managed a jewellers shop (F Hinds Ltd in Southampton) I can assure you that if you don't display the time as shown above there is always some cvnt who will come in to buy a watch and when the assistant says "Any particular one?" the aforementioned cvnt will reply "The one that's right".


If I had a £ for every time I heard that over the years   Banghead Banghead Banghead

Why\?

I was once told that it was ten past ten or ten to two because it looked like the watch/clock was smiling, but if it was twenty to four or twenty past eight, they looked sad. This was said to draw the customer in to buy a watch/clock. Absolute bollocks of course,but I bet somebody got paid to do a three year study into it  noooo:
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Re: Random image thread.
« Reply #4417 on: November 25, 2011, 06:42:42 PM »
Yup! I was told that tale too by my first manager in the trade ..... he also had a theory about it being the standard position to place your hands on a steering wheel. Believe whichever you like but anyone trained in the pre 1980s would always do it.

Ratners (remember them?) used to issue a weekly window plan to their managers and every Ratner window looked the same.... and all watches/clocks would be set at 10.10.

Gerald Ratner called into my shop and offered me a job once .... I said no thanks as I didn't like the idea of their insistence on all the windows being done to plan. The Ratner Bros used to drive round on Sundays checking that the shop windows were all dressed according to the plan..... And Gerald was right ... they did sell crap but then so did Samuels and Hinds.
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Re: Random image thread.
« Reply #4418 on: November 25, 2011, 06:47:40 PM »
I spose 3.40 would do it for most male customers ::)
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Re: Random image thread.
« Reply #4419 on: November 26, 2011, 09:01:30 AM »


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Re: Random image thread.
« Reply #4420 on: November 26, 2011, 09:08:34 AM »
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Re: Random image thread.
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Re: Random image thread.
« Reply #4422 on: November 26, 2011, 10:08:56 AM »
Quote from: Nick (GC First class) on November 26, 2011, 09:01:30 AM



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Re: Random image thread.
« Reply #4423 on: November 26, 2011, 10:12:36 AM »
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Re: Random image thread.
« Reply #4424 on: November 26, 2011, 11:48:31 AM »
Quote from: Just One More on November 26, 2011, 10:08:56 AM
Quote from: Nick (GC First class) on November 26, 2011, 09:01:30 AM



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That was a blank post before he edited it  cussing:

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