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Author: UrbanWatch - Replies: 2 - Views: 14388
Chinese Seagull movements
The Tianjin Seagull Watch Group (Chinese: 天津海鸥) is a watchmaking company located in Tianjin, China. Founded in 1955, it is the world's largest manufacturer of mechanical watch movements, producing one quarter of total global production by volume. Quite something for starters I would say... and all of this has been documented very well on wikipedia (excerpts from that site in this post). 

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Author: UrbanWatch - Replies: 3 - Views: 16341
Chinese Tourbillon movements
Yes! There are cheap Tourbillons, they will cost you not somewhere in the region of 20.000 USD but just slightly over 3000 USD... 

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The ST8000SA will cost you...

Polished steel
Sapphire crystal front and back
Alligator strap with adjustable folding buckle
19 Jewels
Diameter: 40mm
Water resistant to 5 ATM (50 meters)
Manual winding

Price: 3,865 € | 3,050 £ | 29,000 DKK

And here is a nice review on it..

Firstly, in terms of accuracy, the watch easily pa
Author: Collectionist - Replies: 7 - Views: 19516
Ball movements & ETA crisis
ETA will be selling a declining number of movements to non-Swatch companies until they are relieved of the obligation in 2020. That means that a lot of companies will have to develop in house movements. Lots of people think that Ball has already done this, but this is not the case. Ball uses ebauches from ETA or Valjoux.

Below is a table outlining these adaptations (and you can download it too):

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