Options For Replacing Movement

[thewightstuff]

received a chanel J12 today to give as a present and depsite being assured of its swiss internals buy a trusted seller the function of the crown gave me some suspicions that this was not the case.

opened it up to find it was a seiko epson vx12e quartz inside.

given the short times left im trying to ge ahead of myself and consider what options i have to install a different movement, this time of swiss origin.

do you know what options for quartz i have available? im not clued up on my non mechanical movements at all.

what does the genuine chanel use inside it, this would be the best starting point but i cant find any info on it at all.

while i'm on, how does the stem release on this movement, cant see anything obvious

[thewightstuff]

ETA have a nice quartz readily available that should go in. the hands will be a bit tight but should be easily opened up a little. its the same as the gens use for the smaller model, with the larger ones having an automatic eta version.

seriously though, WTF!!!!. given the price tag of these, standard ETAs really just dont cut it for me. maybe im too used to seeing the inhouse movements in my rolex but since getting into watches im left bewildered at what goes on with many "quality" brands.

high end needs to have inhouse and unique movement IMHO....(rant over lol)