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Marcus Hanke
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Well, pactically ALL modern movements demand a trained watchmaker ...

... or better: a certified watchmaker. Even ETA reduces its parts supplies policy to watchmakers that are not affiliated with Swatch group Brands. For the vast majority of the inhouse movements currently used the parts are sent only to watchmakers having passed certification tests for each and every single movement variants at the manufacturer. This is a really good business for the latter.

Often, modern movements are launched with the claim to reduce service costs for the customer. If this is true, remains to be proven. The serivce of an Omega cal. 9300 costs the same as that of a cal. 3313 or 3303 (Swiss lever escapement), or a Valjoux 7750. Any advantage of the more modern movement can only be based in extended regular service intervals, let's wait and see ...

For Breitling, the maintenance of the modern cal. B01 is considerably more expensive than that of the 7750, so where is the advantage for the customer? According to my own experience, the cal. B01 is neither more accurat, nor more reliable than the "simple" 7750.

Marcus