Is this real?

I’ve set a reminder to validate this prediction. 😁

I do 😁

Only collecting Omega and a single model at that

I find it perplexing that people pay $1000-2000 for the eta/in-house claimers, yet, 50 year old Omega's from the golden ages are still <$1000 - buying non-stop for this reason


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i am not sure who started that "in-house movement" term in the first place
by the time i heard it, it was mostly to frown upon some brands using the outsourced calibers mainly ETA, maybe a rolex salex man started that word to justify their beginning to inflate prices over omegas, who knows?

however, i am sure everyone who has some historical knowledge of swiss watches manufacturing knows that there are suppliers for case, crown, movement, crystal, dial and so on. the senior members in OF know specific examples which company supplies what, like singer dials, oyster case, etc. probably we should make a separate thread of that list? or there may be one already.

probably that is no different than bmw having non-in house zf transmission, range rover having ford engine, delphi components in GM etc

in uk, bently and rolls royce rarely make in-house engine for their cars as far as i know

my point is that "in-house movement" term does not really carry whole a lot of real meaning