The Truth About Swiss Made

Certain people confuse what is Swiss Made, sometimes the watch has tagged with made in China and in the same time has a Swiss Made on the dial. Swiss Made is control by law to protect Swiss watch companies. Here we are try to understand what is Swiss Made, Swiss Movement, Swiss Quartz. 

Before that let take a looks at these three pictures and identified it

1. Nivre Coeur de la Sarre

2. STOWA The Ikarus

3. Tissot Men's T033.410.26.053.01  

4, Stuhrling Original Men's 555A.01

 What is Swiss Made?? According to Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH (FH) Swiss Made is :-

• the movement has been assembled in Switzerland
• the movement has been inspected by the manufacturer in Switzerland
• a minimum rate of Swiss value of 60% for quartz watches Swiss Movement
• a minimum rate of Swiss value of 80% for mechanical watches
• no more Swiss manufacture account for at least 50 percent of the total value

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After we knows what is Swiss Made let look back the picture.

1.  Nivrel  Coeur de la Sarre is not Swiss Made but use Swiss movement. Made in Germany but usedSwiss automatic movement
2. STOWA The Ikarus also not Swiss Made, however used ETA2824-2 which is well known Swiss movement
3. Tissot Men's T033.410.26.053.01 is Swiss Made but not automatic but quartz movement, and has Swiss Made on it dial
4. Stuhrling Original Men's 555A.01 is not an Swiss Made, only used Swiss quartz movement.

Another important thing about Swiss Made is Chronometer. Below are 7 top Swiss Made meet chronometer standards in 2012:-

1. Rolex
2. Omega
3. Breitling
4. Tissot
5. Panerai
6. Panerai
7. Chopard           

So now we can conclude what is Swiss Made and its movement generally. Click +1 for this article