The watch manufacture in this country does seem to be on the way up, so hopefully a new dawn is on the way.Click to expand.You can read in the previous post by Hubert that mechanical watches are not so precise as quartz watches, but your Calibre 5 should be within the -5/+20 seconds per day margin, and your is -15 seconds per day = not normal That’s why I always recommend looking for a watch with an ETA in it. I’ve been hoping that Sellita would improve in time as so many brands adopted their movements, but it’s just never happened. That’s why it is amazing to see brands developing in-house calibres, albeit using movements from Seiko watches in the 60s and 70s and modifying them to make them current. The wheels “just” don’t match up properly, the pivots are “just” the wrong size, or the teeth are “just” too unfinished. If you fit ETA parts to try and better the quality and therefore better the service interval, it just doesn’t work. Sellita state that all ETA parts interchange with the Sellita replica, but that just isn’t so. It’s like they are just made from completely inferior materials. Sometimes we get a watch back after 18months or so, with all of those wheels worn out, teeth missing, broken springs, damaged pivots, etc, etc. On the sellita, we have seen that on nearly every watch that comes in for service, both of the reverser wheels, the intermediate wheels that they mesh with and every wheel between the crown and the mainspring, need to be replaced. On the ETA, you could probably get 20yrs of wear, before you need to replace the winding mechanism (manual wind and automatically), and even then it would likely be the reverser wheels that would be a bit worn. I can almost guarantee the wheels that I need to replace before I even open the case back. While I feel for the brands, as they had no choice but to find someone to supply movements, I still shudder when a watch comes in for service and it has a sellita movement. They now make replicas of the 2824, 2892 & the 7750. Putting it plainly, they just aren’t anywhere near the quality of the calibres they are replicating.īut that’s the point, they are replica movements of the perfect Swiss movements. Well… it’s a topic I could talk for days about. If it wasn’t for Pistonheads, via my past customers, I would have no work at all. SimonI am so busy trying to catch up at the minute that I keep forgetting to pop in and see if anyone needs any help.
Just out of interest and curiosity, what don’t you like about the Sellita eta clones? Do they arrive at the manufacturer badly regulated? Rigga, always an unexpected delight to have you back on the watches forum.
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