Meanwhile, there’s some evidence that international distributors hated the inconsistent and infrequently illogical numbering programs of their Swiss overlords. Shinola started like a shoe polish manufacturer, founded in Rochester, New York in 1877. It finally went from company in 1960, but in 2011, the manufacturer was reborn in Detroit, being https://www.watchesworld.com/a-history-of-watch-reference-numbers/