Stuhrling Original, a well-known watch maker, has been getting some mixed reviews from customers regarding the authenticity and worth of its products. While many are appreciative of the much more modest pricing of Stuhrling watches, others resent the brand for selling mock luxury timepieces at lower prices.
Looking at the Stuhrling Facebook page, one would deduce that the young watch manufacturer (the company was only established in 1999) is experiencing great success on the market. The page displays comments from customers, fan photos, and a generally very positive reaction to Stuhrling products. However, other reactions around the web are anything but.
"Great looking watches on ShopNBC on the Stuhrling show," one Facebook fan writes.
The range of response received by Stuhrling Original is certainly an interesting and unusual characteristic of a luxury watch maker, but does not seem to be significantly harming sales.
I'm against anything bogus!! Get the original or get lost!!!
stuhrling original? what a load of elephant feces.
I bought one of them. Ugly and huge. No exchange allowed. Very poor customer service.
Inexpensive but not recommended if you have bit more to spend on something that you will keep for long.
i own a stuhrling winchester 44, really happy with it. worth the price i pay for.
I puchased a Stuhrling for my son for Christmas.Great price great watch.My son loves it.
Bought Sturgling as a gift, great for someone with poor eyesight.
Bought Sturgling for myself awhile ago and am very pleased with the performance.
Just bought a Stuhrling Original Toubillon Meteorite. I own some high end timepieces along with some lesser known brands similar to Stuhrling. This watch is a very well made watch, great looking and value for money. I think they have come a long way as a brand and would recommend their higher end models for anyone looking for a reasonably priced watch with a luxury feel.
I own 2 Stuhrling watches and have just purchased 3 more, Great watch at an excellent price, nice designs to cover all occasions. You don't have to spend big for a quality look and timepiece. I have an expensive brand name luxury watch and it's the most inaccurate watch I own. I plan on buying several more Stuhrling models !
I just recently purchased a Stuhrling Emperor Tourbillon Watch and Im loving it, never had a tourbillon watch until i came across them, their price for quality is really great, quality control is also really well made, anyone saying that Stuhrling watches are a piece of junk obviously has never own 1 or ever looked at 1 up close in person. I plan on buying future watches from them.
This is just nonsense!! I am a son of a German immigrant watchmaker from a watchmaker family on his mother's side. When we came of age we all received Bifora watches which my father said were reasonably priced watches of good quality. I found a Gruen automatic on my way home from primary school when I was 9,10 or 11. It was lying on the road and had been run over at least several times, after being unclaimed after it was reported in the newspaper's lost and found, my dad repaired it and it was my watch until I was an adult. I eventually lost it because one of the arms for the armband was as long as I owned it, slightly out of alignment and the pin would slip out. The other problem was that I rode a motorbike (all 2 stroke from 100cc to 750cc triple) as primary transport from the time I was 16 until I was 28 and because they vibrate a great deal the swinging automatic pendulum would break or vibrate loose so my dad would have to repair it again during which time I would wear one of the watches he was repairing so that he could regulate it. I wore all kinds of watches during that time and so long as they looked OK and kept reasonable time (even Rolex's had problems there) they were pretty equal. I liked a Timex automatic (my father hated it) when I rode my bike because it didn't snap the pendulum. Today I generally wear Seikos (made in Japan and made in Malaysia) or a much older Ingersol by Timex with a Japan Miyota automatic movement and on special formal events, an even older Bifora automatic. My dad in Canada always owned American cars, no Fords but from Chryslers to Pontiacs even a couple of Cadillacs but he ended his life (died in 1984) owning AMC's (mainly Ambassador station wagons and a Pacer) which he said were reasonably priced reliable vehicles.
A range of watches suit my purposes; from high end for business, trustworthy field automatics for actual rough service, and even "disposable interesting" watches hit the spot for some uses.
On the Stuhrling brand, I am still evaluating. I spoke with a rep in NY today and she said that the automatic movements are built of Swiss parts in Hong Kong. (I don't mean the mechanical – hand wind).
There is much mixed information about the details of production. One wonder of Rolex is the purity of everyones' brand details-of production-knowledge. They make it all right there. ETA movements are built is Switzerland of Swiss parts, though some lower range ones may be farmed to some extent. Some mid – lower end Seiko auto movements are built in Malaysia and cased in China.
I would like a clear understanding of what Stuhrling is doing to help me understand what comes in the box. The foofy wealthy types that need to impress others by shunning the common person's joy in brands they can afford is an embarrassment on them. There is a difference between stealing intellectual property and replicating art for the working classes.
The quality of the great watches I own are important to me for a variety of reasons. Still, if owning Stuhrling shows that I can mix in healthy ways in a variety of social echelons and avoid becoming snooty and condescending, then a nice cheap Stuhrling may be worth its weight in the gold of character!