In 1948, ETA even established their own watchmaking school to train horologists looking to learn about the production of movements.
This allowed them to grow into one of the most respected Swiss movement makers in the country. Before Eterna joined the ASUAG, the company was split into two: Eterna became a watchmaker while their movement-making division was renamed to ETA SA.įrom this moment on, ETA SA became one of the first and only manufacturers to create automatic watch movements. Following the Great Depression in 1929, Ébauches SA and several other Swiss watch movement companies had to strategize again, and eventually, the ASUAG (Allgemeine Schweizerische Uhrenindustrie AG) was formed, partly funded by the Swiss government to help secure the country’s leadership in movement manufacture. The latter allowed watch brands to tailor the movements to their own stylings, such as adding an oscillating rotor engraved with their logo. Under this new name, the company became one of Switzerland’s largest producers of watch movements and ébauches (semi-assembled movements).
To survive, they partnered with Fabrique d’horlogerie de Fontainemelon (FHF) and Adolphe Michel SA (AMSA) to form Ébauches SA. The watch movement factory did fairly well at the beginning of its history before eventually struggling due to the economic and production consequences of World War I. The company, originally known as Eterna, was first founded in 1856 in Grenchen, Switzerland by Urs Schild and Joseph Girard. Omega-Speedmaster-3861-Caseback - Credit WatchGecko ETA Movementsįor decades, one of the leaders of Swiss-made movement manufacture has been ETA. Today, we’ll be exploring some of the most popular watch movements around and explaining some of the benefits of each. There’s no shortage of watch movements out there some are the well-known, mass-produced ETA and Sellita movements, while others are created in-house by the watch brand themselves. It is typically a quartz movement (battery-powered) or a mechanical movement (self-winding or manual-winding).
It’s the ticking heart, or the engine if you like, of a timepiece.
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