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Snob Takes On Some Boutique Brands  Watch Snob You are a Knob
only due to your lack of confidence. Your question is actually a
good one, though slightly misguided.  Boutique Watches  Dear
Snob,  I have noticed you look down upon Raymond Weil, yet you
have never mentioned why. I went to its boutique in Dubai and
the watch specialist told me it uses ETA movements that it
modifies. I know you believe there is no watch worth owning in
the $1,000-$3,500 dollar range, but Raymond Weil claims to be an
independent Swiss watch company that makes some very classic-
looking watches with seemingly decent movements. What am I
missing? Why is there such disdain for this brand?  Raymond Weil
has a boutique? Locusts and plague must surely follow. Raymond
Weil is the poster child for the kind of watches I despise. Born
during the nadir of the Swiss watch crisis, the brand sold the
same sort of cheap, gussied-up quartz flotsam as so many other
fashion brands of the 19