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"The CLARO-Semag automatic movement is manufactured here in Switzerland by
SEMAG Manufacture SA
Salzhausstrasse 5
CH - 2503 Bienne
and assembled on their assembly lines in Bienne Switzerland and at their subsidiary in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland
Claro Watch SA
Fabbrica di Orologi
via San Gottardo 17b
CH - 6500 Bellinzona.
Up to 150,000 pieces of the CL-888 are made over here every year. They all come with Swiss certificates of origin. I shall again visit their assembly line in Bellinzona later in the month to take a look at their new assembly set-up.
The movement dates back to the early 1960s and was developped by the engineers of the von Burg watch empire. The dies and blue prints were transferred to von Burg's Swissebauches Ltd. in Hong Kong quite early on. The von Burg companies were one of the first Swiss watch companies taking advantage of Hong Kong's unique sets of skills and they established their first factories in the late 1950s there. The CL-888 was licenced to companies in the Far East as early as the mid-1960s as we were told by some oldtimers at von Burg's here in Switzerland. You shall find more information on the CL-888 in a thread on Timezone.com by the way."
Is it a good movement? If I read correctly, they are now made in Hong Kong?
THX!
Last edited on Wed Oct 7th, 2009 02:28 pm by DM71