: Well, I respect your opinion in believing
: in-house. For arguments sake, if somehow
: someday in the future: (1) Rolex decide to
: provide 3135 to other manufacturers, then
: Rolex 3135 is not as good as it is today?
: (2) ETA decide to not supply movement to other
: manufactures, but start to build watches of
: their own (thus in-house), then ETA is
: better than it is today?
: Remember back in the old days (like 50+ years
: ago), virtually EVERY watch was in-house.
: So, in your logic they are all better than
: today's ETA?
1)Rolex never sold their calibres and never will. Rolex wants to have its best movements for their own products its understandable because they are not an ebauche/movement manufacturer. The 3135 never had the brutal stop problem and it has rigorously been tested since 1988
2)Not all brands were manufactures even 50 years ago.Blancpain used AS Ebauches and Lemania movements, Rado used AS ebauches too,Breitling used valjoux/venus/eta and fhf movements/ebauches, early Paneraïs used Rolex and Angelus movements,Tag used Valjoux, Landeron and Eta ebauches,Ebel used valjoux and eta ebauches in the past,Certina used valjoux ebauches for their chronos and some of their movements used an eta base,Longines was manufacture till the mid 60's after that it stopped to make its own movements and sticked to eta/valjoux ebauches, Zodiac used the AS/valjoux ebauches as far as I can remember. Eta will always be considered as movement/ebauches supplier not like Lemania who used to be a watch manufacturer.
For me older inhouse movements are far better than any mass produced eta, why? The craftmanship, the finish, the care braught to the movement and the general durability was better than an eta. See how well performs an omega 30mm, a longines 30ch or an early rolex pereptual 630na or rolex hunter even after all those years and you will see my point.
