Re: The SELLITA SW200 vs ETA 2824 thread
I work in Design/Engineering for manufacture and have a close friend that worked for ETA up until very recently.
Sellita are not Swiss or even based in Switzerland. They are a Chinese company that manufactures components & assembles Swiss movements. There biggest single client is ETA.The Sellita Sw200 & ETA 2824 are almost 100% identical in aesthetic / engineering & function. The accuracy test underline this fact 100% - there is vurtually no difference of any measurable significance. Just because you have an ETA movement, supplied by ETA, with 'ETA' etched onto it does not mean that some or all of the components have been made or assembled else where.
Most of the opinions on here regarding this matter are really lacking in any technical knowledge or real understanding of how these company's operate in a commercial manufacturing sense.
I get the impression that there is a bit of snobbery connected to a movement being from ETA...because its an older, more established brand and most importantly, not based in China. This is fair enough if you are purist and insist in a 100% Swiss made watch. The very fact that ETA buy huge QTY's of parts from Sellita to populate there 2824 is an endorsement of the quality that Sellita is able to supply.
Oris now supply the majority of there diver range with Sellita movements - which in my opinion are the best Divers under $2K. Omega have Sellita manufacturing various components for there watches also.
People should also understand that even a watch manufacturer that states '100% Swiss' is still able to purchase or have third party companies based outside of Switzerland manufacture and supply them parts. most countries will allow this kind of statement if more than 60-70 of th product is either manufactured or assembled onshore. I just finished a product (admittedly not a watch) for a company that was manufactured 100% in China, but then shipped to Australia for assembly and sales. It has the green 'Australia Made' tag proudly embossed on in packaging.
Unless you are paying serious dollars for a small/limited production run (50-100) Swiss high end watch, the chances are that some if not a great many of the components tht make up your watch have come from somewhere outside of Switzerland i.e. China, Japan, Malaysia etc.
The simple fact is that the SW200 and 2824 are 99.9% identical in every respect other than there names.
http://forums.watchuseek.com/f25/sellita-sw200-vs-eta-2824-thread-358081-2.htmlΟπως και να χει υπαρχουν ακομα ρολογια με την 2824