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Interesting experience with my Watchsmith


cheswick

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Yesterday I met up with my watchsmith to exchange a few pieces. He is rep friendly and had fixed a cheap (quartz) Monaco for me already. While we we're chatting I decided to discuss a small issue I'm having with my DSSD v3 with the ETA copy movement, which I was wearing at the time. I took the caseback off showed him the movement. He looked at it, then put his glasses on and looked closer. "This is NOT Chinese" he tells me. I explained that it's supposed to be, and that's what I payed for. He then told me if it were Chinese, it's the best replication he had ever seen...

So looks like our rep makers are putting together a very nice product!

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It's my understanding that ETA itself has factories in China, as well as Europe. ETA makes movements in China. As I understand it, that is how some Chinese people learn to be great rep workers/makers; by working for ETA in China, and then striking out on their own.

Are you certain that what you purchased is not an Asian ETA movement, and not a total replica movement?

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i left my fiddy in to my local jeweller so he could send it away to his independent watchsmith for a jewel replacement (funny my jeweller wouldn't tell me his name address or contact number) on return my jeweller started asking me strange questions about the watch. it was if he didnt believe me it was a rep...... thing is the watchsmith told him it was a real fiddy and not a rep. :bangin:

my reply was if i had a watch like that would i still be driving a 1997 VW golf with 210000 miles on the clock

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It is quite easy to mistake the Chinese copies with the ETA's, the signs are there, but are difficult to spot.

It is not unusual for the watch to have a Genuine ETA, it happens all the time and a couple of years ago was the "norm", they all had genuine ETA"s in them, until the ETA crunch came...

If you could post some detailed pictures, it would be interesting to see exactly what you have.

And yes, ETA does have factories all over the orient, but it's irrelavant, simply because the movements are bought on the open surplus markets, the same source as Bob Frei uses and all the other supply houses, ETA doesn't sell outside of their own brands...

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i left my fiddy in to my local jeweller so he could send it away to his independent watchsmith for a jewel replacement (funny my jeweller wouldn't tell me his name address or contact number) on return my jeweller started asking me strange questions about the watch. it was if he didnt believe me it was a rep...... thing is the watchsmith told him it was a real fiddy and not a rep. :bangin:

my reply was if i had a watch like that would i still be driving a 1997 VW golf with 210000 miles on the clock

Yes, because all your money would be in the watch ;) lol :D

You should have asked what price he'd give you ;):p

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