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Posted: Wed Jan 31st, 2007 02:30 pm

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Thanks Oscar - that was a good read. So, the patents fell into the public domain and these are essentially Eta designs. There was no mention, odd, of quality regarding these movements. Design is terrific but so are materials, finish, QC, etc.

O.A. Gaspar wrote: Docrwm wrote:
TY Doc...but we still don't know what the SWIN206 movement is???? here is a link to the SW Sellita 200 auto movement Invicta has been using in most of their Swiss Automatic watches...which Europastar calls a eta Clone!face4.gif
http://www.europastar.com/europastar/magazine/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003535554Thanks Oscar. I saw some of that on SNBC but not knowing the company that makes the movement I was a bit skeptical but then many believe everything they see or hear at SNBC.coyote2.gif

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Posted: Wed Jan 31st, 2007 03:35 pm

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Docrwm wrote:
Another Brand using their own in-house Swiss movement is Balmer which are sold on SAH by Tim Temple...I had a chance to speak with both Tim/SAH and John House who is a partner in this manufacturer with a ex-Patek Philipe Watchmaker who produces the movements...what is unique to the Balmer Wacthes besides their own Swiss Movements(link attached) is that they have complications..day/date/gmt etc. and instead of pushers to set them the Crown/Winding stem pulls out to 4 positions and all the complications can be set with the Crown alone...pretty cool imo!cool10.gif
http://www.shopathometv.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=25000344&parentProductId=25000343Thanks Oscar - that was a good read. So, the patents fell into the public domain and these are essentially Eta designs. There was no mention, odd, of quality regarding these movements. Design is terrific but so are materials, finish, QC, etc.

O.A. Gaspar wrote: Docrwm wrote:
TY Doc...but we still don't know what the SWIN206 movement is???? here is a link to the SW Sellita 200 auto movement Invicta has been using in most of their Swiss Automatic watches...which Europastar calls a eta Clone!face4.gif
http://www.europastar.com/europastar/magazine/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003535554Thanks Oscar. I saw some of that on SNBC but not knowing the company that makes the movement I was a bit skeptical but then many believe everything they see or hear at SNBC.coyote2.gif

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Posted: Wed Jan 31st, 2007 03:50 pm

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Oscar,

Thanks for the link - always interested in learning more about watches. This one is pretty pedestrian in looks but I like the story about the company and the idea of using the stem for all the controls is also interesting. I'm just not into watches that have day-date-month as if they were Chrono functions so this one leaves me a little cold.:?
O.A. Gaspar wrote: Docrwm wrote:
Another Brand using their own in-house Swiss movement is Balmer which are sold on SAH by Tim Temple...I had a chance to speak with both Tim/SAH and John House who is a partner in this manufacturer with a ex-Patek Philipe Watchmaker who produces the movements...what is unique to the Balmer Wacthes besides their own Swiss Movements(link attached) is that they have complications..day/date/gmt etc. and instead of pushers to set them the Crown/Winding stem pulls out to 4 positions and all the complications can be set with the Crown alone...pretty cool imo!cool10.gif
O.A. Gaspar wrote: Docrwm wrote:
TY Doc...but we still don't know what the SWIN206 movement is???? here is a link to the SW Sellita 200 auto movement Invicta has been using in most of their Swiss Automatic watches...which Europastar calls a eta Clone!face4.gif
http://www.europastar.com/europastar/magazine/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003535554Thanks Oscar. I saw some of that on SNBC but not knowing the company that makes the movement I was a bit skeptical but then many believe everything they see or hear at SNBC.coyote2.gif

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Posted: Wed Jan 31st, 2007 04:01 pm

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Speaking of Balmer..........does anyone other than me actually own one?cat28.gif

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Posted: Thu Feb 1st, 2007 04:13 pm

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canadajo wrote:
wow..... nothing like making an outlandish claim infering that Da Vinci and Galileo would've liked this freaky thing !!! :X

I'm surprised they didn't include Einstein in the mix ...

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