Watches
When we excited pupils were issued with our watches at 2 ANS, everybody was exclaiming "I gotta Omega" "I gotta Longines". When I looked at mine oh dear never heard of them.......International Watch Co.??????????
We were told to check our watches rates. Well everybody else's watches with their fancy names seemed fair to average. Mine didn't seem to have a rate, it was always correct. Eventually I decided to do a long time test plus 6 seconds after 11 weeks. Then Mr Sandys did not want us any longer and he wanted his watch back.
Never seen or heard of IWC since but Google them and you'll be surprised.