Well, with all due respect to Angus, I'd never trust any TD's marketing without validating it myself, first hand. There is no chance you will be able to prove to yourself that the movement is a real Swiss and also verify the quality of any "modifications" they may or may have not done on the original movement - not until you after you've paid all of your 800$ for the watch, waited for a few weeks to receive it, opened the caseback, took the movement out, examined it for authenticity and quality (it could be used, assembled from multiple broken Swiss movements, one of these Swenese monsters with multiple Chinese parts installed in a used Swiss movement, or real Swiss but modified with Chinese part of poor manufacturing quality, lacking oil etc etc etc etc). I'd take the liberty to assume you are new to these and probably not well versed or experienced enough to do any of the above, hence you will have to quickly find a watchsmith whom you trust, who will have to do it for you. Depending on the results of the said inspections, you may have to go back to Angus and try to argue and return the watch, claiming the movement is not up to scratch etc etc. Imagine trying to pull this - and I doubt you will reach an agreement as this is really a subjective view of you/your watchsmith, unless of course, the claim of using a Swiss movement is a blatant lie, it wont be easy. Hence I am with the others - buy the Asian, wear it for a year or so while trying to see if you could make a connection with a decent watchsmiths in your area, and then see if you like the watch well enough to invest 350-400$ into a proper, clean, oiled Swiss movement from a legit source and only then ask your trusted watchsmith to swap the movements. This way you have 100% satisfaction guarantee, know where your parts come from and dont have expectations that may or may not be true and almost impossible to argue with a TD which is thousandths of miles away from you in China...just my 2 cents.
