What Are The Best Movements?

[tag]

What are the most acknowledgable pure mechanical movements in the market? Movements that include significant inventions, have a proven accuracy and reliability record, etc. Breakthrough calibers.

In other words: If you where ever to acquire a genuine for it's internal parts, what would you buy (with a budget under $5000)?

Lemania 1873: on of the most robust chrono ever produced (Speedmaster chrono)

El Primero: Zenith's flagship and Daytona's caliber

ETA 2892: modular, maybe less robust

Valjoux 7750: widespread

Omega 33XX (Broad Arrow), although a 'bug' has been reported

Omega co-axial: the latest major advance or just a marketing fad?

...

What do you think?

Is the information I gathered correct?

Are there more calibers?

I wish I could find a correspondence list between brand's movements or watch models and their generic "inspiration", e.g. Daytona <=> EP, etc.

And a database describing these different movements...

Edited July 27, 2006 by tag

[Chronus]

I think higher end manufacturers like Breguet, FP Journe, Patek Philippe, AP etc etc make their own high quality movements in-house, and are probably worth considering.

Don't forget Rolex, as they (I believe) made the first mass-marketed self-winding automatic movement, which has historical significance.

[new & improved osteopath]

Many people, myself included, think the El Primero is the best movement ever made.

-O

[tag]

In fact after some research I found the following:

http://www.ozdoba.net/swisswatch/caliber2.html

http://www.horlogerie-suisse.com/2004/Pane...auRadiomir.html