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Revealing what movements are used in high imitation replica watches

High imitation replica watches are watches that are reproduced with advanced technology according to the size of luxury brand watches, which are basically the same as real brand watches, with a similarity of more than 95%. The biggest difference is the movement of the watch, so what movement does the replica watch use?

By Gordon WuPublished 3 years ago 4 min read

First, the real Swiss movement

Many watch friends have just started to play with replica watches. They have very little knowledge about watch movements. When buying replica watches, they feel that they have to install Swiss movements. ! But unfortunately, this type of cousin is very likely to be tricked by rhetoric merchants. Why?

First of all, the Swiss movement is divided into two categories, one is the brand’s own movement, and the other is the ETA general basic movement.

1. The brand's own movement refers to the movement that a Swiss watch brand produces by itself, and then only uses it for watches under its own brand.

For example: Audemars Piguet 3120 movement, Rolex 3135 movement, Hublot 4100 movement, Omega's exclusive patented coaxial escapement series movement and so on. It is completely impossible for these brands to produce their own movements in the market.

2. ETA general basic movement.

The basic movement includes semi-finished products and finished products. The semi-finished products are mainly the blanks of the movement. Then different Swiss watch brands purchase the corresponding semi-finished movements and process them into their own movements.

For example: Longines CAL.L619 movement, the basic movement is ETA2892-A2.

The finished movement is the common ETA2824, ETA2836, ETA2892, etc. We are familiar with Swiss movements, and many Swiss brand watches also directly use the basic finished movements, such as Tissot, Mido, Hamilton, Longines, Tudor and many watch styles, even Omega , IWC and some models of Panerai also have finished movements with ETA.

Seeing this, some watch friends will say, can the replica watch also use the Swiss finished basic movement? I can only say that if you are a local tyrant and have high requirements, the Swiss movement is worth choosing. However, due to cost constraints, replica watches rarely use Swiss movements. The major factories in Zhanxi mainly use domestic seagulls and Japanese Citizen movements. After all, most of my friends want to spend the least amount of money and play a replica watch they like.

There are hundreds of replica watches issued every day in the Zhanxi market, and there are not many watches that are actually equipped with Swiss movements. Moreover, there are very few replica watch manufacturers that provide Swiss movement options from the factory. If you want the Swiss movement, it is basically reconfigured in the station west market, and then assembled and tested for shipment. At the same time, Swiss movements are mainly limited to the common ETA and SW three-hand movements. Therefore, if you are an enthusiast gamer with a sufficient budget and high requirements for playing watches, the Swiss movement is a very good choice.

Second, Tianjin Seagull Movement, Shanghai Movement

In the high-end replica watch, the domestic seagull and Shanghai movement are the choices of most replica watch factories, and some businesses will also call it an imitation Swiss movement. For example, the Seagull ST2130 and Hangzhou 6300 are actually imitations of the Swiss ETA2824-2 movement.

Because many of ETA's movement patents have expired, domestic movement factories can produce such movements, and the structure is no different from ETA's movement structure. The difference between them is mainly in the details of polishing and the quality of the assembly process, but the domestic movement factory is also completely good enough, and it is also very common to control the daily error within 10 seconds.

1. Domestic 2824, 2836, and 2892 are the movements used in commonly used three-hand replica watches. The replica watch generally chooses the movement factory such as Seagull and Hangzhou.

2. The domestic 7750 movement is the most commonly used chronograph replica movement. The domestic ones are mainly Shanghai and Dandong movement factories.

Many friends who have bought imitation watches may have started with low-end imitation watches of less than 200 or 300 yuan, and found that the movement is very rubbish, the travel time is inaccurate, the daily error is large, and even the watch breaks within a few days, so they preconceived that all Domestic mechanical watch movements are garbage.

For example, the Seagull movement is exported overseas and recognized internationally, but it is denied by most watch Xiaobai, which is a very ridiculous thing in itself!

Third, the Japanese movement

At present, more and more high-end replica watches in the west market of Guangzhou Railway Station have also begun to use movements imported from Japan, mainly the mechanical movements of Citizen and Seiko are punctual and stable, similar to Swiss movements, but the price is only It is a little more expensive than the domestic high-end Seagull movement.

For example, the most used replica watch is the Citizen 9015 movement. The De Ville series from the mks factory, the IWC Portofino series. The Jaeger-LeCoultre Moon Phase Master of the ZF factory also changed the 9015 movement to the splint. The JF factory Audemars Piguet 15400 series uses the 9015 movement to change the Audemars Piguet 3120 movement. There are too many replica watch styles, and it is impossible to give examples one by one.

The replica watches of big factories like N factory, ZF factory, JF factory, MKS factory either use Japanese movements, or most of them use seagulls and Shanghai!

Friends, do you all know high imitation replica watches?

Do you also love to have your own luxury watch, but it doesn't cost a fortune?

But it is hard to buy in the market because it is infringing.

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