"Professional"?

[fishbulb]

I have noticed that a lot of higher-end watches have the word "Professional" on the face, or refer to their products as "Professional grade Timepieces" or similar things.

Exactly who are these Professionals they are refering to? It seems that anybody who gets paid to do anything could technicly be called a Professional.

Is there any significance to this, ir is it just an ambiguous marketing term like "tactical"?

 

[Sid Post]

I view as a marketing thing, not a technical thing.

In general though, watches with the professional moniker from higher end timepiece makers are in fact higher quailty and tougher timepieces.

On a ~$20 Casio digital, it means nothing.

Magnum as applied to a firearm is a similar thing. Magnum used to be synonomous with belted case, larger powder capacity, etc. Then handguns came along and added the "longer" case thing. Today, "Non-Magnums" may in fact be more powerful but, don't have that marketing hype of the "Magnum" name.

 

[Cougar Allen]

It is difficult to come in here straight from the Whine & Cheese forum and be trying to shift mental gears and come across a question like that....

 

[Cougar Allen]

The thoughts I was thinking when I began that last post were so evil the nefarious radiation from my brain caused my computer to crash, and now I've got it back up and I'm back on line I see somehow the first sentence of that post got posted. I had hardly begun....

Let this be a lesson to us all.