Formerly a lot of watch companies developed their own movements. Nowadays there are only several famous firms which produce movements for their watches. For example, Rolex, Zenith, Jaeger-LeCoultre in Switzerland. The rest provide their watches with the already finished movements which they buy from the producing companies. The most outstanding supplier of the movements all over the world is ETA Company. ETA’s well-known mechanisms are deemed accurate and reliable enough to be used as a base movement for many high-end manufacturers complications (Such as Rado).

ETA is an industrial empire that produces movements for the great part of Swiss watch firms. ETA represents a foundation of Swatch Group structure. The company is headquartered in Grenchen. It owns twenty high automated factories. Each factory includes production departments, assembly departments, plating plants, etc. The company manufactures hundred millions movements and watches per year. The assemblage of watches and movements is the final part of the producing process in ETA. First of all the numerous cog-wheels, axes, and the other small details should be made. Synthetic quartz crystals are used for quartz watch resonators. This method is similar to the microchips making technology. The main part of the process is automated, even the resonator frequency setting goes automatically.

Every second Swiss watch is provided with ETA movement. ETA has become the only watch movement supplier for Casio. Russian watch companies (for example Polet and Raketa) also have close cooperation with the concern.

ETA is the most universal movement. This movement is used both for genuine brands and for their replicas. Replica watches with ETA movement inside are called Swiss quality replicas. As a rule, materials used in ETA replica watches are of higher quality. These replicas are extremely reliable and they will serve you a long while.

The most popular movement is ETA 2836. ETA 2836 is a part of the ETA Mecaline series of movementsThis movement is fully automatic and has 25 jewels, thus being able to make 28,800 vibrations per hour (4Hz). Sweeping seconds hand of the movement has hacking feature.

ETA movement is installed in Replica Rolex Submariner.
This watch has scratch resistant genuine sapphire crystal watch glass, which is pressure-proof. Replica Rolex Submariner has waterproof quality. Rolex logo is engraved with the help of laser.

Rado replicas are especially noteworthy. These replicas are provided with ETA 251.471 quartz movement with 25 Jewels. It is also scratch-resistant with pressure-proof sapphire crystal glass. The case and bracelet are made of ceramics like in true Rado. Ceramics is a very firm material, no wonder that it has become widespread in watches production industry nowadays.

It is ceramics that is the reason of Rado replicas being in such great demand. It is practically impossible to wear these watches out. You can wear a Rado replica for many years and then just clean it with a rag to make it brand-new. These replicas are considered to be utterly high-grade so you can hardly distinguish them from the genuine Rado watches.

Summing up it is important to notice that while choosing a watch you should pay special attention to the movement what the watch is made of.
A movement is a heart of a watch and its life time directly depends on movement’s quality. Do not forget about it and you will make a right choice.