Bremont on Wikipedia

[zerophase]

I decided that such a fine luxury watch brand at least deserves its own Wikipedia page so I decided to make it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremont_Watch_Company

I don't think I've violated any copyright laws in doing this, since it is after all for encyclopedia purposes, but I could really use some help to improve my hastily put together page. I just thought it was ridiculous that such a major company didn't have a page.

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Quick sidenote. I just wanted to note how ridiculously and unnecessary difficult registering for the forum was. There's no reason to have two captcha like tests on the registration form to guarantee that I am human, an email activation link, and then half a day of turn around time for an administrator to activate my account. I know it prevents spam, but that's just excessive. I've posted in many many forums before and never had to go to such great lengths just to make one post.

[Stefan]

Great to see that. Bremont certainly deserves a Wiki page.

[Noodlefish]

Welcome to the Forum. Sorry to hear that you've had difficulty registering. We've had some problems with a significant number of spammers over past years, so have become a little Draconian.

Regarding the Wiki, a few comments on the first paragraph:

"Bremont subjects their watches to extreme abuse [sounds more like marketing than an "encyclopaedia"] during testing [might want to consider re-wording or simply referring to the “extreme” testing that is performed on the watches - and then refer to e.g. Martin-Baker text "The Bremont MB1/MB2 [sic] watch has successfully endured 12-30G throughout the first second of ejection. These are the first watches to ever go through a live ejection seat testing programme" from http://www.martin-baker.com/merchandise/bremont-watch]. They use a proprietary Trip-Tick® case construction [link to previous sentence? Propose that there is a separate section on Trip-Tick / case construction, so that you can also cover the MB range and the new watches] and harden the steel of their watches to 2000 [insert “Hv on the”] Vickers [insert “scale”] [note - they don’t actually do it themselves - they send the cases off to be treated by a company in Cambs which applies a process in which the metal is heat-treated and defused with carbon and then bombarded with electrons] giving the stainless steel a dramatically increased hardness and scratch resistance, [approximately] nine times that of normal stainless steel watches [would be useful to have something to refer to other than Bremont literature, although this updated Bremont page is helpful - http://www.bremont.com/best-of-british/technology/]. Some of their watches such as the MBII feature and unprecedented [avoid superlatives] nine layers of anti-reflective coating [this is standard on all Bremont watches, not just the MB watches] on the sapphire crystal and can survive the shock and g-forces [not sure about the wording – “shock” is often measured in g. There may be two elements to it – shock resistance and resistance to sustained g?] from a pilot's ejection seat. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremont_Watch_Company#cite_note-Bremont-Home-0"]

[zerophase]

When I meant I could use some help, I was actually just calling for the crowd sourcing of the wiki page as Wikipedia is built on this concept. As in, If you have comments on my writing, you should go and edit it instead of making the suggestions to me. I just started the page because I thought it deserved one, but I'm no official writer for Bremont. Just an average fan.

[G-F]

Great idea!

Bremont's marketing can take it from here and fill it with info.

It'd be cool if they'd include info about really limited models like the Yellow (selfridges) and the Blue MB2 as long as the MB1.5 and others!!!

[Noodlefish]

Originally Posted by G-F

Great idea!

Bremont's marketing can take it from here and fill it with info.

It'd be cool if they'd include info about really limited models like the Yellow (selfridges) and the Blue MB2 as long as the MB1.5 and others!!!

Wiki forbids the people to whom the page refers from editing themselves.

[Noodlefish]

Originally Posted by zerophase

When I meant I could use some help, I was actually just calling for the crowd sourcing of the wiki page as Wikipedia is built on this concept. As in, If you have comments on my writing, you should go and edit it instead of making the suggestions to me. I just started the page because I thought it deserved one, but I'm no official writer for Bremont. Just an average fan.

Understood. I have some experience in this arena

But Wiki has a series of rules that Authors and Editors should obey. The key one is NPoV - a neutral point of view. All I'm suggesting is that you make it as factual (and correct) as possible - not "an average fan's" point of view.

[piers(uk)]

Originally Posted by Noodlefish

All I'm suggesting is that you make it as factual (and correct) as possible - not "an average fan's" point of view.

I was going to add a link to the 'Official Bremont Forum', but can't work out whether it needs to be the neutral facts or the fan's opinion :-)

[Noodlefish]

Check out some other pages - Rolex for example. Or Panerai. Or even Omega. They all try and be as neutral as possible. Otherwise Wiki will see them as an advert / marketing and remove them. It's one of the reasons I've steered clear of it, to be honest. Wiki wants verifiable facts, not opinions.

I'm not saying don't try. I'm saying we need to try a lot harder!