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 Posted: Fri Feb 22nd, 2013 04:51 pm
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Hammerfjord



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 The Spherodrive system was on the ride years before the Chinese take-over as the making up of this movement as said in the article(2007).
Been reading about the Spherodrive system some years ago and found it very clever.
http://www.eterna.com/en/spherodrive

Since this Chinese group is an investor who seems to generally put fonds in hopes of short returns and often selling back(but I'm not in them shoes and who knows what they will do): I'm not surprised that they did let run this movement project to be concretized. It's in them favor.
Lately, big brands been focusing on making them own chronograph movements: Breitling, Tag-Heuer... Now Eterna. All because of ETA threats.
This movement sounds really good and I bet Eterna with it's great old movement knowledge, been making us a good baby there: No doubt at all.
Question is where the 30% of components who will not come from them Swiss plant WILL COME FROM??? Knowing the 50% Swiss-Made law on a watch components provenance and elaboration.
Maybe Hangzhou ? Well, maybe I'm sarcastic there but you never know...