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Central Alberta | There doesn't seem to be a watchmaker or a watch collector who has anything good to say about Timex watches. If they say anything at all, it's that Timex watches are disposable, meant to throw away when they stop working. The had no jewels after all, just metal pins.
But how do we explain why they were so incredibly popular for so many years? Well, one reason was that Dwight D. Eisenhower put a tariff on all imported watches, and also that Timex had a massive advertising campaign, saying that their watches were better than all the others. They said it, but it wasn't true. But as Josef Goebbels said, "a lie, told often enough, will eventually be believed as a fact."
It still seems like about half the population still fall for that. They prefer a pleasant lie to an unpleasant truth. Until that changes, bad things will continue to happen.
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