[EN] ETA or Sellita movements? Do you know what are they and what are the differences?
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- Опубликовано: 19 дек 2019
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On today's episode: probably most of you know what ETA and Sellita are, but what's the story behind them and what are the differences between them.?
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Exactly what I was looking for, thank you - history vs functionality vs perceived quality.
This needed saying. My most reliable pieces are ETA and Sellita. My favourite piece is the IWC MKxvIII. Sellita 300. or ETA 2892-a2. Fabulous movement
Very informative. So many people seem to sneer at ETA and Sellita movements which are clearly fantastic movements. So much snobbery in the world of watches so its great to find someone who knows the reality giving us the facts.
Do u know if the sw500-1 has the Same Horrible Wobble as the 7750 bieng that they are identical ?
I had to skim this the other dnight but this time i'm listening through the whole thing and holy crp does this dude drop some info for person just getting in to paying attention to watch movements (having gotten a Bulova Accutron and studying it's movement). Best history, ETA vs Sellita identification / quality comparison etc of anybody I found on here. I found my movement, fouind it's spec sheets gained an immense new appreciation for my first automatic mechanical watch and an interest to have more Auto-Mechs. Thank you (him) so much.
Thanks for this video, it was helpful to educate me on these two movements. I'm glad that I found this channel.
Thanks very much for an excellent video. This is the most detailed explanation of the evolution of both ETA and Sellita movements. I’ve had watches with both and find them to be excellent movements. Please keep these videos coming, they are very helpful to a student of watches and their movements. I have subscribed after seeing just this one video.
What an excellent video. Extremely informative and needed to enlighten us all. Thank you and I look forward to future videos.
This is really great. Very informative. Thank you.
I love this channel. Very well done!
I'm rewatching some of your videos and I like them more and more, thank you for all the information you gave us!
AWESOME GREAT JOB, Thank You for the precious and detailed information on the mater, Keep Up The Great Work, Thank You
Great explanation on entry movement and basic supply chain knowledge in watch maker industry
Very thorough and comprehensive. Thanks so much!!
I almost clicked away from this video because while the history is interesting on its own, it is the differences I am interested in, then about 20 minutes in was all the information i was looking for. Great video! THANK YOU for posting! Subscribed.
Great informational video, thanks!
Fantastic! More people should watch this.
Great video! Addressed my confusion around ETA and Vouj
Very informative! Thank you.
Damn! Thank you so much for this video. You are really good!!!!
Great info. Thank You!
Excellent video!
Just found this. Excellent video.
Both cartel driven Swiss movement brands make great movements
Thanks 🙏 my friend, it's a great explanation!
Nice one. We need more of this
Very good info, thanks!!
Thumbs up, and subscribed,. This is just the type of content I was looking for. Straight up horology, minus the fluff. Thank you for your efforts, and sharing your extensive knowledge base with us novice's.
Thank you very much for this very educational video🙏🏻
Very interesting. Thanks for the info
Superb vid Sir. Thanks!
Great information. Thank you.
Lot of Eterna caliber become ETA movements.
Eterna is a great Brand with huge history
Outstanding!
Thank you for the informations you provide
Excellent review!!! I subscribed too- thank you!!
Great video very informative 👍
Thanks so much for these comprehensive Video(s) pt.2 What is the little Pilotswatch on the shelve? Sinn? I Love it!!
Super video thank you
I had never had a watch with Sellita movement; however, before I had owned three Tissots PRS and Visodate. Now I am wearing a watch with NH35 Seiko movement. I did like the "Swiss made" in my Tissots; however, my new watch is very accurate(NH35), with sapphire and ceramic insert, and it is working amazingly. Besides, it cost less than the former watches I had owned.
Great info. Well said.
Excellent video.
Very educational for somethinkong about buying a Christopher ward sealander. Thank you.
Very informative, thanks.
Great information . Now I will find out what is in my Steinhart Ocean one 39 mm . Thank you
You have an ETA 2893-2. I got a standing magnifying glass. Found the ETA maker”s mark and nearby (you must look hard, just at the edge of the movement) the mark 2893-2. I don’t know which Steinhart get ETA & which get Selita 330-? But the Ocean 39 GMT Vintage I got in September 2020 was ETA. Cheers & GBU
@@jazzman5598 The werk inside one of my watches has those laser engraving too. But please be assured: It never was even close to Switzerland. In fact it was born on a different continent.
Very well made!
Really good watch.
Well done sir.
Excelente!
Bravo & thanks
Great video thanks very much. 🇬🇧
Thanks so much for posting this.just yesterday I purchased a new tudor black bay 36,when I got home I read an article on a watch site that stated the possibility of a sellita instead of an eta inside.i was gutted initially but after watching your video and other videos and reading articles my fears have been largely allayed. This was so interesting and well explained,I will now go through your back catalogue. Thanks once again..
Nothing wrong with a top grade Sellita movement as it would be the same as the previous generation top grade ETA. Tudor know what they are doing.
Old Tudor Subs with Merc hands and ETA now cost 7-9000€. That is a lot.
Great Video!! quality info, do you know why ETA movements has engraved V8 - AT 37 ? thanks !
amazing video sir, already subscribed
Add to the variety of substitute movements La Joux-Perret (MLJP), with their G100 movement (date) or G101 (no date). I've heard it said that these come with better materials so you're unlikely to get, say, a reversing wheel shredding its teeth. And though it is unidirectional rotor winding, the movement has 68 hours of power reserve. That's why I'm keenly interested in it, because this could shake up the status quo.
Very interesting. Thanks a lot. Subbed.
Yes, Sellita was born out of survival when the swatch group wanted everything in-house and not outsourced. So Sellita started making fantastic movements on their own saving many jobs in the process! ⌚ Am I wrong?
Yes, the Swatchgroup was making ETA movements for everyone that asked. But the Swiss government said it was a monopoly. That's why they stopped. It took some years to do and Sellita is now making movements for those firms that don't make their own.
@@NikonFM2n Yes you are right. It's was COMCO that put the brakes on ETA.
Sounds right.
No. The real story is different. When the watch factories in Hong-Kong finally notched up in quality on par with eta, someone came up with the idea to buy the parts there and maybe assemble a bit in Switzerland to charge a premium for the swiss made brand. It's business - not charity.
@@rosomak8244
People would be very surprised how much of a “Swiss Made Watch” is not actually made in Switzerland (or Europe) but rather in the far East.
The laws for “Swiss made” are nothing but loopholes for manufacturers to claim “Swiss made” while simultaneously getting their parts made in the East.
I loath the Swatch group and its brands.
Thank you
Interesting!
Very informative...
What do you think of the Monaco re-issue movement? The watch design is iconic.
Awesome.
Good explanation
Great video as usual Sir! On a recent look at a well known watch forum a spat about ETA/SELLITA came up. The watch maker’s comment was a statement that Sellita had “heat treating problems” in some of their movement parts. Is there ANY truth, objectively or anecdotally, about which you are aware that attests to the veracity of this claim? Thanks!
Yes. I'm not sure the problem was due to heat treatment, but they did had problems with the materials of some parts, making them less sturdy and/or nore prone to wear. But these problems are things from the past. They sorted out these problems over the years.
Tell me about the microphone. Beautiful.
Hi , I’ve got a automatic ETA 2824-2 and when I give it some turns to start my watch the rotor spins at same time! This is a new watch and I didn’t haver happen to my watches ( have a few Sellita and ETA ) can you please advise me what is the problem please? The watch is in warranty 1/2 year very low use ? Can you advise me what should I do ? I’ve contact the brand and they say it me only monday to contact them ! This is a microbrand assembly in Germany with ETA movements! I’m not a watchmaker plus I think the barrel that gives power have some issues, the watch is still running and if I shake it a bit I makes some metal noises? Hope you can help me with this situation! Thank you soo much
You: “Screw this, I’m not going to try and pronounce German…”
Me, an English and Dutch speaker “HA! Now you know how I feel, trying to pronounce French!”
In all seriousness, very good video, sir.
The main problem with french and pronunciation is the fact that it's a damn lottery. You never know by reading how it is actually to be pronounced.
if choosing thought which do you pick? I suppose both are really the same. I wonder what watch maker's say?
So at last a real,genuine watch fellah,not a media student,video maker that thought"im gonna make RUclips clips about watches because they are popular", or those spoilt teenagers with very expensive watches ,gloating on camera,watch them copy what this man is teaching us.
From personal experience with an SW200 and an SW330, I have no problem with Sellita movements. My 200 runs at around +4s/d, the 330 at +2.5 to +3.5s/d. My third watch has either an SW200 or an ETA 2824 in it (manufacturer doesn't specify which, and I don't want to open the watch just to look). The only thing that bothers me about that is the fact that this third watch is the most accurate I have at +0.5 to +1.0s/d, so it would be interesting to know what's inside. :)
Thats just a matter of adjustments, you can have a less accurate sellita or eta and its not movements fault, is just the time they spent adjusting and that will depend on the brand of the watch and what they wanted to give you.
@@cap.alexwalkr1247 It's not just about adjustment. It's about production tolerances and good luck in the way how the assembled parts matched together.
Thank you,thank you,I'm always confused about this,when very expensive brands have no in-house movements its "ok",but when a not expensive brand has an ETA mov, its "nah shit,uts only an ETA mov inside".????
So in theory the st2130 is sort of the same movement as the sw200. This was very educational. Thank you!
You are very close to home. It's actually the Hongzou 6300.
Great talk, very informative. It would have been nice if you talked a little more about Sellita, their history beyond just the quartz crisis or the cutting off of ETA movements, for eg, the fact that they actually started in 1950 and were the major assembler of ETA movements.
"For eg" is redundant. It's either "for example" or "e.g.* (short for "exempli gratia", simply meaning "for example" in Latin).
@@einundsiebenziger5488 thanks for the feedback
It would be very interesting to include the ETA2824 clones made by Sea Gull and Hong Kong Precision Technology with current production from ETA and Sellita.
I have 4 Invictas pro divers with the Eta they have sapphire crystals and swiss made but I hear they are rare because eta would not sell them to Invicta because they were not in the swatch Group?
Yes, they are less common. Probably from an era that they were still able to get ETA movements.
Ive got a swiss made pro diver and it has the selitta sw200 movement.
It performs the same as my other pieces with ETA's
I have a steinheart ocean 1- 2824 movement elaborate...accurate to 3 seconds over two weeks . Can you regulate Miyota 9039..its 8 seconds a day...thanks
hello, very interesting information about the differences between Selita and ETA. I comment on a situation, I have bought a Victorinox where the eBay website said Eta 2624-2 and I have received it with Sellita sw200-1 .
My question is, do I return it or keep it because they are the same with the same qualities of its components ? What would you do ?
Would you carry out the procedures by paying the shipping and risking or would you leave it as is because they are the same as the seller says?
Obrigado.
Hi! This is a pretty common situation, people advertising watches as being ETA when it's really Sellitas (or even people advertising being Sellitas, when it's chinese copies), but mostly because they just don't know or don't care, or just "copy/paste" the information. I wouldn't say all the components are of the same quality. Sellitas are good, but nothing beat the ETA. In the other hand, I wouldn't bother, even because I never recomend buying (or not buying) a watch because what's inside. If you like the watch, that's enough. But it still your personal feeling about this. But I really wouldn't care, even prefering that it was an ETA.
If I liked it enough I would keep it but next time do more research on the piece when purchasing from eBay, you can't trust what's posted on eBay. It might've been that some variation of the watch used eta but changed to selita. You never know what you're gonna get from private seller sites, it's always a gamble
Bonjour! Are you from the South of France?
What about Seiko? This should have been considered when talking bout fully vertically integrated. Even on their less expensive watches.
Yes, you're totally right. I only have the swiss industry in mind when I recorded that video, but certainlly Seiko have probably the highest level of integration of all watchmaking world. They even make their own oils and greases!
@@CHRONOTALK Taijing watch factory is the same in this regard. In fact both are higher integrated than any swiss niche manufacturer. They are all minuscule in scale compared to those two asian behemoths. Miyota is for certain outsourcing the mechanical movements to Hong-Kong.
My son had a Luminox Modern Mariner 6502 with SW 200-1 that had the date wheel break early on.
Probably a defect. Also safe practice to not use the quick set function during 9PM-3AM. Times will vary depending on who you ask. Mostly a bigger issue with Seiko movements that use a plastic gear on the quick set. Personally I set the day before and advance the time accordingly.
Hi. My sellita sw 200 stopped after 10 days since acquisition. Nice. Regards.
@@mihneavoda9060 mine too. I wasn’t impressed
@@get-magnificent8072 what would break if you did change the date between those times? I had a SW200 just start free spinning when I went to change the time.
@@jeffreygoss8109 All the gears are connected to some degree. Any one gear being defective will throw the balance of the watch of and it can show up in anywhere depending on the movement design.
Hello
i want to know please i bought two watichs Tissiot one is ETA 2836-2 and the second one is Model
POWERMATIC 80.111
it is that watchs good ? i bought as a gift for my family i hope it is good
Sure they are very good watches! Any Tissot is.
Very informative but at the bottom line which of the two is better? I bought a steinhart which was advertised on their website with an ETA2824-2 movement, but when I received it it came with a Selita
I tried to stay away of give my own opinion. In numbers, both are equal in terms of performance. But I still prefer the ETA, specially in terms of durability. But yes, this is really an issue, of brands advertising one movement and actually using another.
I have a Steinhart Ocean one 39 .
@@davidcoleman2463 Absolutely amazing watch you have there. Do you enjoy it?
I am curious which Steinhart did you specifically buy expecting an ETA but received the Sellita? My understanding is that a few watches are marketed as exclusively having the ETA (such as the new double green ocean hulk) but the vast majority are listed as ETA/SW depending on availability.
IMO the real problem is not the marketing, but in the actual paperwork that comes with the watch. For $500+ dollars I expect a product's paperwork to describe it's exact specifications, not some uncertain ETA/SW checkbox. Very un-german of them haha
Hi, the movements Sellita for exemplo sells in Alliexpress are original or all is fake?. where can i buy a original sellita movement? Thank you and hug
Even Ebay will work. You could probably order from Sellita directly but only in large batches :)
@@baze3SC Thanks
Hi! Thank you for a great video! There was a great discussion on one forum in internet about the grade (standart, elabore and top) of ETA 2824 and Sellita SW200, some people said that top grade movements have to be decorated, but as a web site of Sellita says it is not the point how to undestand the grade. There are two different definitions: finishing - how movement is decorated and the escapement grade - technical part. Others say that incablock is used only at top grades of movements. But there was no final opinion. Could you please make a video about grades and how to differ them. For example Tag Heuer Aquarace Calibre 5, some say that it is standart grade Sellita and some that it is top grade (no decoration, but incablock). Thank you!
Hi! Yes, this is a very common question and I already recorded a video about ETA (and Sellita) grades and I believe most of the answers for your questions are there: what and why are the differences, and how to spot the difference visually. They'll be up on air in the next two weeks, so stay tuned.
@@CHRONOTALK oh, that's great! Did you notice on Sellita web site that there is finishig (how the movement looks like, decoration) and grade - technical details (materials and adjustment positions number)
There you go, the first part of the video about ETA (and Sellita) grades!
@@CHRONOTALK, hi! I already have watched it and commented=) Thank you! Great video=)
After manufacturing parts are binned and matched according to production variability. Most importantly the regulating parts. The tighter you match them the higher the grade.
Rolex never made a thing, they just bought all the companies that they outsourced too. To call them a watch manufacturer pre 2004 is stretching it.
2:23 isn't Seiko an better example?
Wish I knew which movement I have in my Christopher ward trident pro c60 !
Selitta my dude :)
Sellita sw 200-1..also it’s on CW site
I thought it was a ETA OR Selitta,no one really knows each watch Varys from what I’ve seen and read
Love to see movements you’re talking about rather than just watching you. That’s why other watch reviewers get so popular. As watch lover, we love seeing watch and calibre, not the talk host.
I thought ETA was short for Eterna?
No, Eterna created ETA, but now they are different independent companies
@@xtellur You are both right. In fact, Eterna founded ETA - an abbreviation (or "part" of) "eterna" to signify that ETA makes "parts" for eterna watches. As you said, they moved on to become totally unrelated companies.
Always heard problems with Sellita, like over wound problems, uni-directional winding, etc. Hardly heard any problems with ETA movements.
ORIENT makes their won inhouse :-)
I only know ETA as the Basque separatist group.
ETA movements absolutely beat up Rolex for decades. The designs were superior design until Rolex recent movements.
The reason there are still ETA movements in non SWATCH brands is because the Swiss court system would not allow ETA to hold a monopoly and stop selling to non SWATCH brands.
Now i know that sellita is the maker of eta....
Üzgünüm selita taklid ürünü benzetmiş ama materyal zayıf tuz gibi dağılıyor sağlamlık sorun vidalar dişliler dökülüyor birebir benzetme güzel kalite de olursa ETA tarih olur aksi takdirde tüm markalar selitayı kullanan vaz geçeceklerdir selita dan ,ve kendi makinelerini üretmeye başlayacaklar bu selita nın sonu olur 30 yıllık tecrübem doğrultusunda yazıyorum artı ➕ longines ustasıyım ve tag ve bretling Tissot Raymond Weil omega Rolex mont blance Mauric Laxroix gibi deneyimlerim daima mevcut
Skip bullshit intro 0:33
ETA is more accurate than sellita on my watches
It has nothing to do with ETA vs Sellita, but about regulation.
Mine are about 50/50 between ETA and Sellita.
Try a “Sellita Manufacture AMT” movement by Hanhart (Germany) and you’ll really see some fine watchmaking.
Eta is better
Intro too long
very informative, thank you!