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 Posted: Sat Dec 19th, 2009 10:27 am
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oagaspar



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 Swatch Group has planned this to begin in 2010 for some time involving their base plates which is essential to any watchmaker who has been using them as the basis of their movements but it doesn't mean they aren't selling complete movements or parts to principle owners/watchmakers....1st look up 3rd party so you know what it means and then look at Swatch and what they are really trying to do which is keep the high integrity of their ETA movement line intact which has been tarnished by those who were buying Ebauches and parts and building the Asian etas that have flooded the marketplace and are maninly used by 3rd party watchmakers like the so called eta 2836-2 modified GMT.

I have already been reading on other forums with some WIS trying to twist this press release to their limited knowledge and make statememnts that are just not true....1st of all Sellita can not make enough movements to fill any gap as proven over the past 2 years...this year they pretty much vanished due to not being able to get needed parts within the Swiss confines and there is plenty discussion about Sellita here on 3T...they are already advertising 95% Swiss Made and Miyota is faced with worker turmoil where they did not have presence of mind to train young men and women in the art of movement making and the entire workforce is much older and ready to retire... now the younger generation in Asia will not work for what their ancestors would and workers are at a demand by Miyota just like Swatch faced over the past few years.

Swatch Group is a well run machine and Nicolas Hayek is known as the saviour of Swiss Watchmaking ...he will not jeapordize the entire industry of Swiss watchmaking which he saved nor his reputation.You must also read closely as Hayek has only said this to a paper and has not brought it up to the Swiss Federation...whom may vote no as they did when Hayek asked to keep eta within the Swatch Group.So we are looking at nothing but words reported by a newspaper right now and bottom line is we will benefit from ETA not selling parts to 3rd party watchmakers which will still be able to buy complete movements from what I understand as we will be assured our watches using eta movements will be 100% Swiss ETA and not Swiss Cheese!... like Jeff said above these discussions surrounding ETA began around 1999-2000 so here we are 9/10 years later and notta....the gears of time move slowly.;)