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About ETA 7750 You Wanna Know

April 26, 2010
By Brooks
About ETA 7750 You Wanna Know

How to use Dial and hands The normal ETA 7750 watch A chronograph consists of a movement with traditional watch functions added stop watch functions. Caliber 7750 also indicates the date and day of week. To the above you see the nomal watch functions, hour and minutehand, small secondhand at 9 o’clock as date and day of week. The ETA...
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What Does Jewels Mean in Watches?

April 12, 2010
By Brooks

Most of top grade watches have jewels(Rubies, mostly) inlayed in their movements, 17 jewels, 21 jewels or 25 jewels, such words often could be seen in watches’ certifications, but what does these jewels mean in whatches anyway? Well, besides jewels themselves’ beauty and rarity, jewels in watches movement has real functional use: reduce friction. Comparing...
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ETA Movement List

March 16, 2010
By Brooks
ETA Movement List

As the biggest finished and semi-finished watch movements producer in the world, ETA Movement plays a very important role in Swiss watch industry. Especially after its successive consolidation with other three Swiss movement companies Lemania, Valjoux, and Peseux, ETA movement got the irreplaceable position in Swiss even worldwide watch industry. Besides providing watch movements to...
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Quartz Movement

July 6, 2009
By Brooks
Quartz Movement

A quartz watch is one that measures time by means of a miroscopic piece of synthetic quartz. The quartz vibrates very quickly in response to an electric charge; it is these vibrations that enable the watch to keep time. Quartz watches have either an analog dial, with rotating hands, or a digital lcd display....
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Watch Movements

June 2, 2009
By Brooks

The majority of the watches sold today have quartz movements, such as The best way to explain the differences between watch movements is to compare them to mechanical watches which were first introduced in 1910, such as Rolex replica and Ferrari replica watches. Mechanical: Watches use a balance wheel for time measurement and a mainspring for...
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