Christopher award are still jiggling between the two calibres of the ETA 2824-2 and the Sellita SW200-1.
For many people, this is a massive turn off as you never really know which movement you end up with, unless you PPP the back open. To be completely frank, it doesn’t matter at all –
they’re basically the same movement. In fact, I’d even sway towards the Sellita thanks to its extra jewel in the winding mechanism and also the fact that it’s made on newer equipment.
The ETAs are all made on a lot of original machines, so some think they won’t be quite as neat and tidy as the Sellitas, which are made on much newer ones. For some, though, just the name ETA is worth much more. Obviously it has the history, and a long-standing amount of time behind it as being a solid, reliable movement. There’s no denying that.
But, a lot of ETAs in the past have actually been contracted out to Sellita – so what’s labelled as an ETA in another watch could have been made by Sellita. Intriguing, but in real life, they both perform just as well as each other.
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