Roffensian wrote:
electrosound wrote:
Alien wrote:
Breitling officially says, they could produce 50000 movements per Year, but they only produced 30000 movements in the last year. By authum they will finish a second production line, with additional production capacity for 50000 watches. So Breitling will be the third largest manufacturer of own movements behind ETA and Rolex!
alien, sorry but i doubt that Breitling will produce 50000 in house movements, it's impossible right now, this would means they will stop to use ETA movements... no?
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50,000 movements in house, not 50,000 in house movements.
In other words they are producing ETA and Valjoux movements in house - they are far beyond copyright protection and it's a safeguard against Swatch Group's discontinuation of ebauches sales.
Roff, I've read somewhere that Breitling outsources even the production (some) of B01 parts, what is quite normal I think (quality control is way better if they have to send back some parts to a third party). But I can hardly imagine that they outsource in-house parts production while they are producing the 7750 in-house. I think that only a visit to the factory can blow off these clouds... I hope Breitling will not walk in the street TAG-Heuer did a few months ago.
BTW my 5th Breitling is on the way home to me
and as soon as the Chronomat B01 will have a day-date version with a perpendicular date window (or Big Date) a B01 will come home with me some time... to tell the truth I could imagine further enhancement of the escapement: introducing balance bridge, direct fine-regulation on the balance, maybe Breguet hairspring. In this case the movement could be mentioned together with the highest ranking ones - almost there today. I'm missing primarily the weekday feature (see CSO...).Best, Robert