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I hear a lot of you talking about ETA movement. Great movements, but buy them up while you can. Swatch Group will cease selling their movements to just anyone
by icantdrive55 9y ago
I hear a lot of you talking about ETA movement.
Great movements, but buy them up while you can.
Swatch Group will cease selling their movements to just anyone.
There's enough movements in the secondary market to keep most home hobbiests happy though.
The Swatch Group, and The Wilsdorf Foundation (Rolex) will not sell parts/movements to pretty much everyone.
These practices are killing the watch repair industry, and making fools out of anyone who buys a quality watch.
Certain supply houses (Cousins UK) are fighting the monopolistic behavior, but the lawsuits are going nowhere.
So that custom watch, with the ETA movement is really not yours if you can't buy parts for the movement.
Our government (USA) knows about the problem, but has bigger fish to fry?
- freeone3000 9y agoMechanical watch movements are really cool! But I'm not sure you can call it monopolistic behavior if, first, you are able to name many major competitors, and when the substitute good (a quartz movement) of equivalent accuracy is $5... It seems a bit silly to complain overmuch. Especially when other posters are talking about printing the parts off on a $1500 machine!
- jpfr 9y agoNobody cares about ETA at this point. The patents and registered designs of ETA movements have expired. You can buy exact clones of ETA movements legally. ETA clones by Sellita and Soprod are said to be better than the original. Sea-Gull (and other Chinese) aren't bad either. Especially for the price...