ETA will stop selling movements in their component form (where the party buying it can tweak & build themselves). They will still sell complete movements to companies outside Swatch, it'll just mean maybe a bit more cost to do those mods as they may have to disassemble first.
Also, there are several other movement manufactures that have been getting bigger & bigger shares of the market recently. I expect they'll pick up a lot of the slack from ETA.
IMO the 2010 ETA "shut-down" will be akin to the Y2K stuff.... A lot of hype building up to it & then we'll hardly know when it passes.... :wink:
Also, there are several other movement manufactures that have been getting bigger & bigger shares of the market recently. I expect they'll pick up a lot of the slack from ETA.
IMO the 2010 ETA "shut-down" will be akin to the Y2K stuff.... A lot of hype building up to it & then we'll hardly know when it passes.... :wink:
