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Almost all companies do it!
I can't think of many companies that only use their own movements. Rolex has used ETA and Zenith in the past. Maybe A Lange &sohne may be exclusive? Patek has a few lemania products, AP uses FP and ETAs. Vacheron also uses FP1185, and gerrard peregaux movts. Blancpain and breguet (lemania) share items now that they are under Swatch. I have wondered the same things, as to why they can't just design their own product. Seems that with all the CAD/CAM, it should be easy! Then you have companies like IWC that buy a complete ETA movement and take it apart, re-machine everything and replace key components with their own. Seems like it would be easier to start from scratch. Anyone have any ideas????
What brands other than Blancpain ...
use the F.P. 1185 or some variant of it? The thread below got me wondering. Thanks in advance, Chris
Jaquet Droz, Vacheron, Harry Winston, Daniel Roth, Audemars Piguet to name a few.. [nt]
The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Chronograph (not Offshore) is probably the most famous watch with the Piguet 1185 movement in it. Vacheron Constantin's Overseas Chronograph and Royal Eagle Chronograph is based on it as well. I believe Panerai also used the ...
very illuminating but
why would a brand like AP for example use a movement other than their own?
Almost all companies do it!
I can't think of many companies that only use their own movements. Rolex has used ETA and Zenith in the past. Maybe A Lange &sohne may be exclusive? Patek has a few lemania products, AP uses FP and ETAs. Vacheron also uses FP1185, and gerrard peregaux mov...
Rolex uses ETA? In a fake, maybe...
it was Rolex's daughter Tudor which uses ETA. Also, I have yet to see an AP with an ETA movement. And, I would like to remind that the original 1185 was a joint Piguet/Blancpain development. IWC uses ETA because they need exactly this: a very sturdy, reli...
Valjoux 72 and 88 in days gone by when Valjoux was still independent.
So not an ETA as such but certainly not a so-called in-house movement.
It is still a very nice movement!
Although I have never had my 6263 open to look at, I have seen pics that show a rather nice column wheel movement! Bravo to rolex and valjoux. Your point is correct and I believe that at the time, Valjoux was considered a pretty "high-end" ebauche manufac...