Trade Practice Rules for the Watch Industry

Promulgation date as printed in the volumes: not stated in the text found. 12 mentions in F.T.C. Decisions volumes 63-75.

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• v063-0023, 63 F.T.C. 491: watch, the case of which respondents can show wil provide protection against water or moisture to the extent of meeting the test designated test X o. 2 of the Trade Practice Conference Rules for the Watch Industry, as set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 16, Chapter 1 , Part 170.2(c) (16 CFR 170.2(c)). 2. Offering for sale or selling watches, the cases of
• v066-0058, 66 F.T.C. 640: etion of all finishing operations, without clearly and conspicuously disclosing on such cases or parts the true metal composition in a form consistent with the Trade Practice Conference Rules for the Watch Case Industry (set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 16, Chapter 1, Part 174). 2, Offering for sale or selling: (a) watch cases which are in whole or in substa
• v066-0079, 66 F.T.C. 848: made of base metal treated to simulate precious metal or stainless steel. or plated with gold or gold alloy of less than the minimum thickness approved by the Trade Practice Rules for the Watch Case Industry, without clearly disclosing on the exterior the true metal composition ; and to cease selling imported watch cases—such as those from Hong Kong—without conspic
• v066-0080, 66 F.T.C. 855: metallurgical and assay tests, that the bezel of CX 43, 46 is not composed of 10 karat rolled gold of the required minimum thickness of 0015 prescribed by the Trade Practice Rules for the Watch Case Industry (Rule 2, II (i), promulgated by the Commission in 1958, and by custom in the trade. 11, Respondents have strenuously raised the question, however, particularly
• v066-0080, 66 F.T.C. 877: , when in fact the gold plating on these bezels was less than 114/1000 (0.0015) of an inch, the minimum thickness approved for such plating by the Commission’s Trade Practice Rules for the Watch Case Industry. If the plating on the bezels in question was less than the above-mentioned thickness, it is complaint counsel’s position that Detra’s representation that the
• v066-0080, 66 F.T.C. 878: d layers total more than 0.0007 inches. Obviously, this thickness is substantially less than that of 0.0015, the minimum thickness approved by the Commission’s Trade Practice Rules for the Watch Case Industry. The examiner dismissed the charge of deception through the use of the abbreviation “10 KRGP” in connection with the above bezel on the threshold determination
• v066-0080, 66 F.T.C. 880: orthern Feather Works, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, 234 F. 2d 885 (8d Cir. 1956); Amasia Importing Corp. et al., 48 F.T.C. 87, 50 (1951). The Commission’s Trade Practice Rules for the Watch Case Industry and, in particular, the aforementioned sections dealing with the minimum thickness of rolled gold plate, were predicated wpon definitions and customs already e
• v066-0080, 66 F.T.C. 880: ederal Trade Commission Act. Cf., Benrus Watch Company, supra. 17 An official of a competing watch case company testified that the portion of the Com~mission’s Trade Practice Rules for the Watch Case Industry requiring that rolled gold ‘plate must be of a minimum thickness of 0.0015 inches before it may be so identified was predicated upon a custom already existing
• v066-0080, 66 F.T.C. 882: ishing operations, without clearly and conspicuously disclosing on the exterior of such cases or parts the true metal composition in a form consistent with the Trade Practice Rules for the Watch Case Industry (set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 16, Chapter 1, Part 174). 2. Offering for sale or selling watch cases which are in whole or in part of for
• v066-0146, 66 F.T.C. 1535: motion, respondents state that there have been substantial improvements in the electroplating art since 1948, the year in which the Commission promulgated its Trade Practice Rules for the Watch Case Industry which set forth the standards embodied in paragraph 5 of the order. [16 CFR 174.2 (9)] Respondents further state that the electroplating process they now use r
• v068-0075, 68 F.T.C. 979: letion of all finishing operations without clearly and conspicuously disclosing on such cases or parts the true metal composition in a form consistent with the Trade Practice Conference Rules for the Watch Case Industry (set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title , Chapter 1 , Part 174). 2. Offering for sale or selling watches, the cases of which are in whole or in pa
• v075-0108, 75 F.T.C. 1060: metal with a thin and unsubstantial coating of gold. The test results disclose that the gold coatings were extremely thin. We note that under the Commission’s Trade Practice Rules for the Watch Case Industry a coating of less than 1% 1000ths of an inch thickness of precious metal is deemed either base metal or base metal flashed or coated with a very thin and unsub