ETA is well-known as a producer of many watch movements, but the following are particularly popular today. For more information, please see ETA calibres. User Tools Log In. Site Tools Search. Table of Contents History. Eterna joins this conglomerate in , but is split in two to match the overall organizational structure of ASUAG Eterna SA manufactures whole watches.
ETA - 25 jewel automatic movement. ETA A2 - 21 jewel automatic movement. Valjoux family including Venus technology. ETA formerly Valjoux - 25 jewel automatic chronograph movement. Unitas family. The ETA A2 watch movement has been used for many decades and has since enjoyed a particularly high popularity.
Particularly expensive watch models, such as the Breitling or Omega are equipped in this way. It also consists of 21 jewels and a power reserve of 42 hours. This miracle of technology is not modular like the model ETA , but is a real chronograph caliber. Already since , this high-quality manufacture serves many watch models as an important basis, which guarantees excellent quality. This movement is also known as the so-called Valjoux Valjoux is now a permanent part of the Swatch Group.
This model is available in numerous versions. Not only a chronograph function offers the ETA , but also a display for the respective day of the week including date. If you decide for the model , you can also read the month and moon phase.
The ETA is one of the most reliable watch movements. On the market, however, there is also a decorated version of the ETA The so-called IWC caliber is mainly used in pilot watches.
However, it can also be found in smaller wristwatches. ETA movements are a real masterpiece and are lovingly handcrafted with precision. In turn, some people have developed certain connotations with ETA and written them off as being lesser than. ETA is an indispensable part of the industry, and their movements play a significant role in luxury watches. Today, a majority of watch brands source these movements to power their watches. That year, two men named Dr.
Joseph Girard and Urs Schild founded a movement manufacturer. Two decades later in , they named the company Eterna. By , Eterna had divided into two entities. The first was a watchmaking facility called Eterna SA. It was then that ETA was officially born. Through a complex series of mergers and buyouts over the years, ETA has since become a subsidiary of Swatch Group.
This unique set of circumstances has paved the way for these movements to be the most prolific watch calibers today. Some watch brands do in fact produce their own movements entirely in-house. Eterna remained a company assembling watches while it created its new movement maker division that was called ETA SA. As we can see, ETA could never have come to existence had it not been for the countless ups and downs of the industry and all the crises that needed urgent solutions.
It is just that legally, this movement-maker facility was separated from the mother company of Eterna in and started its new life as ETA SA. Vintage Eterna Automatic watch advertisement. The complex tasks of movement manufacturing had been split up into three large segments within ASUAG. Manufactures like FHF, Fleurier, Unitas and others were responsible for building hand-wound movements, chronographs were created by Valjoux and Venus, while ETA and some others were in the business of building automatic ones — something fairly new on the market.
Furthermore, ETA had been busy developing new movements that incorporated ball-bearings in the automatic winding mechanism. In , their efforts came to fruition as they announced the Eterna-matic , the first automatic wristwatch with this innovation. This new technology proved to be so successful that a formation of five ball bearings have made up the logo of Eterna ever since.
Finally, they also tested high-frequency movements and in the mid-seventies even managed to break into what would later mostly remain Zenith-territory: 36, vibrations per hour. Unfortunately, these models were discontinued for some startling reasons, reasons which we are just about to discover.
Rounding out the list of crises are not one, but two major downturns actually. Both stemming from the middle of the s. At the time, in to be exact, the industry was at its best, producing about 84 million watches a year! Clearly, the oil- and quartz- crises could not have come at a worse time or be any more painful of a hit for the Swiss. In a nutshell, the primary issue was with relative value as, Swiss watches became horrendously expensive as a cumulative result of these two crises… more ».
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