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this brand has been around the block more than once,including being sold on Shopnbc,by Lior, owner of World of Watches,from the diverscope,to the TV dial models,and never gained any real following...what is happening now is the whole "in-house" movement which means notta to most collectors,and only higher prices for manufacturers...don't get sucked in by the hype as most of the in-house movements are all etalike in design...the Jean Richard with eta is a much better buy for the same watch imho...and even some of those are overpriced,you will see the resurrection of many brands over the next year or so,for some it will be new,others nothing new..
I know that when Daniel.Jean.Richard closed , they dumped them watches everywhere even on Shopnbc... They went cheap.
Now: They just modified the name to Jean.Richard but...
If they would have take a totally different name with slight different designs and them in-house movements: Very few would have trace them back to be the old D.J.R and many would have seen them with different eyes.
Maybe they just should have done that.
For the movement: Look here, it's demounted and fully analyzed...
There is a regulator and an incabloc belonging to ETA and the Glucydure balance wheel: The rest is them own stuff.
The top plate remember me much of a Girard Perregaux.
http://www.thepurists.net/patrons/members/wsw/jr/index.html
For me, there is no hype there: ETA will cut it's selling to brands outside Swatch-groupe and at list some brands are making the first step by producing them own movements.
Many known brands don't. And still they sell at the same price as J.R.