Originally posted by lithos Trouble is, the ZK35 isn't German.
It's Japanese. But it's actually made in Japan, whereas the 31mm is AIV.
Understood, but where the mothership resides is, surprisingly, more important than where the materials and assembly are sourced. The latter are mobile, and the former not so much. Ask where the balance sheet and annual reports are domiciled, that's as much as 50% of the FOREX issue, and the materials/assembly the rest. IN theory, with globalisation, these should average out, but since 2007, it's all higgledy-piggledy.