Poll: Did It Exist?

Polls are the way of the future. Polls are what people want. Polls got what plants crave. The Quartz Crisis (or Revolution, if you are Seiko) knocked out hundreds of small Swiss brands. Three of these are real brands. One is not. Without resorting to the internet or books can you tell which is not real?
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Sinnguy

Is it 5 down, 20 to go? Get that Pollster Badge!

I may not have it in me. Most people post polls with a doe-eyed simplicity and pure heart. I am driven more by malice.

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I voted B last night, because you always chose B first for multiple choice when a clue of any kind is lacking, C was the front runner. 

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I have no idea and only chose the one that I thought had the most improbable spelling. I seem to have made a popular choice, which doesn't mean it is correct. 

Feel free to inappropriately tag the polls with #dornbluth or something to get extra credit.

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I have seen semag and mervos before.  Osxar feels possible but could also be Soviet.  

But I chose C.  I feel like procine is too close to porcine and someone would have mentioned.

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Edge168n

I have seen semag and mervos before.  Osxar feels possible but could also be Soviet.  

But I chose C.  I feel like procine is too close to porcine and someone would have mentioned.

I agree. 

C for me too.

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This was a stupid poll. The crowd guessed correctly. @Edge168n even correctly noted that I had just rearranged the word porcine.

You have to be deep into watches to have encountered Semag or Mervos. Semag seems to have been founded in the late 50's or at least by 1960. They have some fully jeweled movements but many pin pallets. Mervos was a brand of Nivada's that was started in the 30's. They initially came under the Croton umbrella in the U.S. In the 1950's Nivada used Mervos to sell to the Argentine and South American market. I have seen some Semag watches, but never a Mervos.

Osxar was a Poljot that was meant for the French market. Poljot wanted to supply watches to France the way Seconda succeeded in the U.K. However, France had Kelton, Mortima, Yema, and Selhor and some other brands and Osxar was a short-lived failure.

Procine could exist if we just believed enough.

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Aurelian

This was a stupid poll. The crowd guessed correctly. @Edge168n even correctly noted that I had just rearranged the word porcine.

You have to be deep into watches to have encountered Semag or Mervos. Semag seems to have been founded in the late 50's or at least by 1960. They have some fully jeweled movements but many pin pallets. Mervos was a brand of Nivada's that was started in the 30's. They initially came under the Croton umbrella in the U.S. In the 1950's Nivada used Mervos to sell to the Argentine and South American market. I have seen some Semag watches, but never a Mervos.

Osxar was a Poljot that was meant for the French market. Poljot wanted to supply watches to France the way Seconda succeeded in the U.K. However, France had Kelton, Mortima, Yema, and Selhor and some other brands and Osxar was a short-lived failure.

Procine could exist if we just believed enough.

Never seen a semag in person but the mervos I saw was this.

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A triple calendar of all things.  Loved the look.  Still love the look.  No idea if was genuine or original or any of those gubbins.  But at the right price not sure I'd care either.

Cheers!