Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2006-03-26-00:44:16 Will von Dauster: > Does IWC still make their own calibres? Just curious. Very nice > watches regardless! That's an excellent question, one they're not too clear about, at least in the literature I've found easily; perhaps someone with some actual knowledge, not talking out his buttocks like me, will chime in. I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of their mainstream designs have ETA innards, in common with practically the entire rest of the industry. The watch I just bought presumably has an ETA-sourced calibre. I have no complaint about the quality of ETA movements, but it's more than a little, well, dreary that you're so much less likely to find the individualistic mechanical marvels of each watch company within the case. I wonder if there are still a few models with Jaeger-LeCoultre bits inside, as certainly used to be true in the past. I don't know about some of the more elaborate IWC efforts -- are the movements for their more over-the-top watches (the Grande Complication, or the Portuguese Tourbillon Mystere, for example) their own design, or have such things as those become commodities as well?