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 Post subject: Re: In House Movements
PostPosted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:17 am 
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...I have heard rumours about Breitling "expanding their workshop" with several thousands of squaremeters.

Must be more than a marketing front?

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 Post subject: Re: In House Movements
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What is Breitling going to do about the Superquarz movements? They are also provided by ETA. In-house Quarz movements?

Further: Kelek might be the solution to their movement problem - totally forgot 'bout them. But did they provide any movements since 1997?

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Talked with a Breitling rep today. He has me all excited about the new in house movements. He didn't give me specifics as far as price but I got the impression it wont be as bad as we are thinking.

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 Post subject: Re: In House Movements
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This is going to be a very exciting time! :lingsrock:

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 Post subject: Re: In House Movements
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mwheatley wrote:
Talked with a Breitling rep today. He has me all excited about the new in house movements. He didn't give me specifics as far as price but I got the impression it wont be as bad as we are thinking.


could you spin this a little bit further? Why were you so excited?

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 Post subject: Re: In House Movements
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Just had it told to me on good authority that Breitling in fact manufactures ALL the Valjoux 775x series of movements in-house. We are talking about CNC machinery that they make exact 1:1 copies of the Valjoux movements. I am assuming the only way to tell if yours is a Breitling Chronometrie manufactured movement is to look for the ETA stamp on it.

As of now I dont have any information on how long they have been doing this. I will check.

However, this means that Breitling does have the machining capability to manufacture their own in-house movements for sure, it is just a matter of design.

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 Post subject: Re: In House Movements
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Good news. :lingsrock:

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 Post subject: Re: In House Movements
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breitlingsource wrote:
Just had it told to me on good authority that Breitling in fact manufactures ALL the Valjoux 775x series of movements in-house. We are talking about CNC machinery that they make exact 1:1 copies of the Valjoux movements. I am assuming the only way to tell if yours is a Breitling Chronometrie manufactured movement is to look for the ETA stamp on it.

As of now I dont have any information on how long they have been doing this. I will check.

However, this means that Breitling does have the machining capability to manufacture their own in-house movements for sure, it is just a matter of design.


That's interesting. The patents are long expired so it's entirely possible, and I knew that they remanufactured some of the parts to closer tolerances, but had no idea that they were producing all parts.
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 Post subject: Re: In House Movements
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Well, if the new models go up in price 20-40% due to in house movements, I will just keep picking up some of the older models and "previously loved" models for less.

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 Post subject: Re: In House Movements
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So who wants to crack open one of their recent Breitling Caliber 13's and take a gander for us? :D

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 Post subject: Re: In House Movements
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breitlingsource wrote:
So who wants to crack open one of their recent Breitling Caliber 13's and take a gander for us? :D


Sounds like an admin function to me..........
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 Post subject: Re: In House Movements
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That would be waaaay outside of my comfort range :|

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 Post subject: Re: In House Movements
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Roffensian wrote:
breitlingsource wrote:
So who wants to crack open one of their recent Breitling Caliber 13's and take a gander for us? :D


Sounds like an admin function to me..........

Sorry Admin, but my fellow moderator is absolutely correct! :D

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 Post subject: Re: In House Movements
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You guys are sneaky.. I do have 3 watches using the Valjoux 775x base, but I dont think I am going to open any of them lol :P

However, I am trying to get a handle on the dates, and it looks like there are some indications that Breitling was producing all caliber in-house, but not for sure. But it definately looks like the Valjoux 775x series have been produced in-house since around 2006.

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 Post subject: Re: In House Movements
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Legmaker72 wrote:
Well, if the new models go up in price 20-40% due to in house movements, I will just keep picking up some of the older models and "previously loved" models for less.


20 I could live with. 40 would be pushing it :?

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