milesd Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 One I purchased from a member was lost in transit and it's the last piece I need before I finish my project. Do you guys know a source for these movements? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbutlerman Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 Are you in the us? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milesd Posted June 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
praetor Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 I need to source one too? are the sources I googled reliable? they're selling it for $70 ish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbutlerman Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 What was the name of the site you found? I am having trouble induing the place I got mine from... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbutlerman Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 Found it. This is where I got mine http://www.smithsupplyhouse.com/eta28swau6.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
praetor Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 ya that one... thanks. are their movements good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabularasa415 Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 I was searching for these, too, and found that same supplier. I simply bought one for my project from PBDad since he was going to be doing the installation, anyhow. It was also fully serviced and regulated. Of course, it cost more than $80 :-P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
automatico Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 "I was searching for these, too, and found that same supplier. I simply bought one for my project from PBDad since he was going to be doing the installation, anyhow. It was also fully serviced and regulated. Of course, it cost more than $80." I bought a couple a while back from a supply house in the USA for about $100 each and they were new but needed to be cleaned/oiled so you did Ok. When I ordered them, they told me they were probably dried out. My guess is a new 2846 fresh cleaned/oiled is worth $125 to $200 now with all the price increases etc. In another year they might be $300... Saw on TZ that the swiss government gave swatch permission to cut movement production. This was posted June 8 on TZ public forum... June 8 (Bloomberg) -- Swatch Group AG, the biggest maker of Swiss watch motors, will be allowed to start reducing deliveries to competing timepiece manufacturers next year as it seeks to end a regulatory requirement that it sell components to rivals. Swatch, the Biel, Switzerland-based maker of the Omega and Breguet brands, will be permitted to scale back sales of mechanical movements to third parties to 85 percent of the level sold in 2010, the country’s competition regulator, Comco, said today in a statement. The world’s biggest watchmaker has been required to supply movements to third parties because of its dominant position. Swatch’s ETA unit manufactures as many as 80 percent of the mechanisms made in Switzerland, according to a Sanford C. Bernstein estimate. Swatch has sought permission from Comco since 2009 to choose who it sells movements to. The company has shown that it’s willing to accept a “gradual” solution, Comco said. Swatch rose as much as 40 centimes, or 0.1 percent, to 403.60 Swiss francs and was trading at 403.50 francs as of 9:48 a.m. in Zurich. Next year’s permitted reduction in motor deliveries forms a provisional measure while the regulator conducts an investigation into the matter, Comco said. 'motor' = movements Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
praetor Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 ^I thought that the 2846 has been out of production for years. hmmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preacher62 Posted June 12, 2011 Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 I have posted, on several occasions, that I have purchased ETA 2846s from William S. McCaw Company for $57.95. they are new, but may be NOS... http://www.mccawcompany.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highoeyazmuhudee Posted June 12, 2011 Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 eta still makes these new as 2842. either way who cares, just buy a 2879 or 2783, just not the one i want to buy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milesd Posted June 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 Found it. This is where I got mine http://www.smithsupplyhouse.com/eta28swau6.html Thanks, I placed my order from them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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