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A history of the reps factories


Ptolomeo

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I've read an interesting topic in a spanish forum (replik.as) and I'm trying to translate here:

"Movements factories in Chine were born by Government order in sometime and copying swiss movements in order to create a powerful chinese watch industry.

Specifically Seagull, the best well-known, was born in January of 1955 by Government order, in a workshop with only four people with hardly any tools. The started copying a Sindaco swiss movement with 5 jewels and the first prototype was finished in 24th of March of this same year. This famous watch (WuXing 5 stars) started to be produced by hand...

In 1957 the started the preparation of the mass production, with the creation of the Tianjin factory. One year later, with the finish of the building works, the WuYi -based in a swiss movement too- started its production. This movement was improved in differents times. Last serie was called ST-2A WuYi and it's the first one with something similar to an incabloc.

In 1962, the factory moved and changed its name to Tianjin Watch Factory......

From then there is a huge history for creating the Industry that manufactures the 25% of the movements sold in the world, most of them for OEM watches with overestimate prizes in Europe and America.

Everybody knows the lack of transparency in the production and sale of the movements from companies like Seagull but for they the rep market doesn't lead, they lead over the rest of the market and outshine even the powerful Swatch group.

Current Seagull movements

ST6

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