In the meantime, there’s some evidence that Intercontinental distributors hated the inconsistent and often illogical numbering units in their Swiss overlords. Shinola began as a shoe polish model, Launched in Rochester, Big apple in 1877. It finally went out of organization in 1960, but in 2011, the brand was reborn https://www.watchesworld.com/a-history-of-watch-reference-numbers/