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COSC Certificate numbers for 2006
From Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry:
COSC Certificates in 2006
(September 18, 2007)
Last year, the Contrôle officiel suisse des chronomètres (COSC) issued 1,300,140 certificates, or 10.7% more than in 2005. The number of registered pieces rose by 10.5% to 1,351,317 (1,243,915 in the mechanical category, +10.8%, and 56,225 in the quartz category, +5.3%). It is interesting to note that of the 56,225 certificates for quartz chronometers, 54,744 were awarded to Breitling products.
In terms of manufacturers, there is again no change to the top three rankings, which have not changed in recent years:
| ROLEX | 710,752 |
| OMEGA | 257,187 |
| BREITLING | 182,223 |
| PANERAI | 46,454 |
| CHOPARD | 23,462 |
| ULYSSE NARDIN | 10,111 |
| CORUM | 8,189 |
| TAG HEUER | 7,450 |
| CHANEL | 6,980 |
| MIDO | 5,722 |
| PORSCHE DESIGN | 3,892 |
| BULGARI | 3,698 |
| EBEL | 3,516 |
| MONTBLANC | 3,471 |
| INVICTA | 2,717 |
| TITONI | 2,018 |
| ZENITH | 1,917 |
| RADO | 1,805 |
| ETERNA | 1,706 |
| ENICAR | 1,672 |
| PAUL PICOT | 1,638 |
| SINN | 1,596 |
| CHRISTIAN DIOR | 1,100 |
All other applicants obtained fewer than 1000 certificates.
This message has been edited by SJX on 2007-09-22 10:17:28
COSC Certificate numbers for 2006
From Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry: COSC Certificates in 2006 (September 18, 2007) Last year, the Contrôle officiel suisse des chronomètres (COSC) issued 1,300,140 certificates, or 10.7% more than in 2005. The number of registered pieces rose by ...
What non based ETA movements are...
COSC Certified, besides Rolex. Just curious how many other manufacturers have their movements certified. Thanks, Best Regards, Kevin
Chopard and Zenith are the only non-ETA
Of the brands listed, Chopard is 100% in-house and non-ETA, so is Zenith. Ebel and UN do use ETA ebauches, but some of their movements are in-house as well. Of course officially a good number of Omega movements are "in-house" too. - SJX