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The slogan under the watch makes the brand name even more unfortunate.
Erm, yes...
I did a bit of web searching and there seems to be no English language material on these watches - so it seems likely that 'the joke' has not previously been noticed. I imagine that, sooner or later, this name will go viral. Certainly it is more extremely unfortunate than the better known Dubbelkrapp toilet paper, or Bonka coffee.
"Prince Arthur" would be a correct translation of the Chinese brand name. English "th" generally becomes "s" in Chinese, so I guess it does sound a bit like "arse" -- but still!
Dubbelkräpp is a perfectly normal and appropriate name in Swedish (double-ply "crepe"/tissue paper) which just happens to sound funny in English. Arseprince has no such excuse. A Taiwanese company decided to give their product an English name -- and that's the English name they chose!
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