Buying Swiss 7750 Reps

[tkakanowski]

I've heard several times that there is no point to buying a Swiss 7750 movement in a given rep watch from China, that its more than likely that i would receive an A7750 and just have been scammed for more. I know that ETA stopped selling to the Chinese factories several years ago, which seems to support this premise. My question is How true is this? Are there people here with first hand experience (ie not looking for 'that happened to my buddy's brother' anecdotes) one way or the other? Is it true of TDs here as well? I would very much prefer to just buy a Swiss ETA up front than buy the rep then replace, but am largely resigned to the latter course of action. Thoughts on this would be appreciated.

 

[Rx4Time]

Can you provide an example that is offering this? The problem with the ETA movements from China is a lot of them are remanufactured and serviced. There's no way to guarantee how well the movement service was done, or if it's a conglomeration of ETA and Chinese replacement parts which is why it's often times better to just get a brand new Asian clone versus ETA from the dealer unless they say specifically it's a brand new movement.

 

[tkakanowski]

Can you provide an example that is offering this? The problem with the ETA movements from China is a lot of them are remanufactured and serviced. There's no way to guarantee how well the movement service was done, or if it's a conglomeration of ETA and Chinese replacement parts which is why it's often times better to just get a brand new Asian clone versus ETA from the dealer unless they say specifically it's a brand new movement.

I'll see if I can dig up something.

 

[tkakanowski]

Can you provide an example that is offering this? The problem with the ETA movements from China is a lot of them are remanufactured and serviced. There's no way to guarantee how well the movement service was done, or if it's a conglomeration of ETA and Chinese replacement parts which is why it's often times better to just get a brand new Asian clone versus ETA from the dealer unless they say specifically it's a brand new movement.

Not really, as I've been biased against them for so long that I just turn a blind eye to them. Here's a link to one at an UNtrusted dealer, but not worth the time I took to paste it here... I'll be paying more attention going forward to see if I can find any better examples, but for a while now I 've shopped for specific factory variants of the watches I'm interested in, so probably not looking in the right places.

 

[fabbrisd]

I am not certain of your "objective" - but let me offer you this. If your objective is Operational Reliability then I suggest you should consider the Swiss Sellita SW500. The Valjoux 7750 movement has (2) design "sticky-points/faults" - day/date change mishandling requiring service reset - chrono reset position issues. In spite of where the 7750 is made - the 7750 movement has those 2 fault points. The Sellita SW500 "new" re-design introduced Basel 2020 has been redesigned to resolve both 7750 design faults. If you are shooting for Accuracy - frankly 7750's have never/ever been "great" - the Sellita SW500 gets interesting - since at the OEM level the SW500 can be Spec'd to either Premium Standard or even up to COSC standard. Remember a Replica is a Replica.

 

[Tucker]

Not really, as I've been biased against them for so long that I just turn a blind eye to them. Here's a link to one at an UNtrusted dealer, but not worth the time I took to paste it here... I'll be paying more attention going forward to see if I can find any better examples, but for a while now I 've shopped for specific factory variants of the watches I'm interested in, so probably not looking in the right places.

There is no way that watch has a Swiss 7750 for $388. It’s a complete scam. I don’t know of any TDs offering watches with a Swiss 7750.

 

[tkakanowski]

I am not certain of your "objective" - but let me offer you this. If your objective is Operational Reliability then I suggest you should consider the Swiss Sellita SW500. The Valjoux 7750 movement has (2) design "sticky-points/faults" - day/date change mishandling requiring service reset - chrono reset position issues. In spite of where the 7750 is made - the 7750 movement has those 2 fault points. The Sellita SW500 "new" re-design introduced Basel 2020 has been redesigned to resolve both 7750 design faults. If you are shooting for Accuracy - frankly 7750's have never/ever been "great" - the Sellita SW500 gets interesting - since at the OEM level the SW500 can be Spec'd to either Premium Standard or even up to COSC standard. Remember a Replica is a Replica.

Interesting, I'll try to dig into the Selita!