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I've just got a really short video today
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about this cheesy little Swatch and this
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was given out to Daimler Chrysler
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employees and it was meant to link up to
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another diimler partnership so to speak
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with the Swatch people where they made
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the Smart car which as you may remember
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got less than good gas mileage had uh
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poor safety had poor acceleration and
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cost a lot of money but was great for
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small parking spaces so here's your
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cheesy plastic band your cheesy plastic
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uh buckle and your snazzy plastic box
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underneath the actual watch is a sheet
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of paper with the instructions which
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might have cost almost as much as the
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manufacture and we open it up and we see
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it's in several different languages
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English French German uh Turkish and a
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others instruction for people who have
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never used a watch before uh the Daimler
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Chrysler merger didn't work quite so
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well it wasn't really a merger it was a
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takeover dler ended up paying absolutely
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nothing to get all of Chrysler and as
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they say how do you pronounce the name
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of the company the Chrysler is
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silent so this is something that some
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Chrysler uh employees were given uh as
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partial compensation for losing their
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company so we'll just wrap the
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instructions back up again put them into
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box try to wrap the instructions back up
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again that is to put them into the neat
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box and I'd like to thank JP Jones for
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passing along this watch to me uh so
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that I could make a little video of it
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he was at the company at the time and I
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will see you soon on this channel or at
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motels.com where we cover an awful lot
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of Chrysler history before during and
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after after the daimer days
