Q&A with Sellita in Switzerland | Chrono24 Visits

Подписаться 161 тыс.

Просмотров 46 тыс.

50% 1

Together with ETA, Sellita is the most important and well-known watch movement manufacturer. Popular watch brands like TAG Heuer, Sinn, and Oris trust in these movements designed and produced in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Chrono24 was lucky enough to interview Dr. Sébastien Chaulmontet, Sellita’s head of innovation and marketing, and ask him the questions YOU shared on our social media and RU-vid channels. Find out what Sébastien Chaulmontet has to say about whether Sellita movements are as good as those from ETA, and whether the movement makers copy one another. The chronograph enthusiast, who owns more than 1,000 watches himself, also describes Sellita’s newest innovations and challenges in the watch world.
Music: www.epidemicsound.com
Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to our channel here: / @chrono24official
Chrono24 Website: www.chrono24.com
Facebook: / chrono24
Instagram: / chrono24
Twitter: / chrono24
Pinterest: / chrono24
iPhone App: itunes.apple.com/us/app/chron...
Android App: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
Want to learn more? Sign up for our newsletter here: www.chrono24.com/newsletter/s...
#chrono24 #sellita #switzerland
00:00 Intro
00:40 What's new at Sellita?
01:56 Question 1
03:20 Question 2
06:38 Question 3
09:29 Question 4
12:32 Question 5
16:46 Question 6
18:00 Question 7
19:19 Question 8
21:10 Question 9
23:03 Question 10
24:07 Question 11
25:16 Question 12
26:08 Question 13
26:25 Question 14
28:03 Question 15
32:39 Outro

Развлечения

Опубликовано:

5 авг 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 134

@Fischi4711 Год назад

This was one of the best interviews I recently watched. I find it always refreshing, to hear industry insights from somebody knowledgeable without bullshit bingo marketing stories.

@thereissomecoolstuff Год назад

This is a remarkable interview. Every question answered expertly and transparently...very impressed.

@joshuaychung Год назад

And calmly, I might add. There was a question about whether Selita 200 will be "fixed" to be more like 2824-2 (which is already an old movement). He began with, well, we fixed that 12 years ago, but he went on to answer it anyways.

@theaussiewhinger Год назад

Great interview and interviewee. I think a lot of people don't really understand Sellita. They really are not just an ETA clone manufacturer. I hope that the new and exciting movements Dr Sebastien spoke about will become more widely available in brands like Tag Heuer, Oris etc.

@Chrono24Official Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@JimmieJohn 10 месяцев назад

This dude is full of shiii

@airbhidhmacpharlain 4 месяца назад

I am an avid outdoorsman, and very tough on wrist watches. While I've been pleased with quartz field watches from several brands, every one of them stopped when, unpredictably their batteries died 'exactly' when I was reliant on them; so, I thought I would try one with an automatic movement and purchased a $1,200 Seiko diver - attractive and robust, 6R35 movement good for seventy hours . . . but miserably inaccurate losing thirty seconds daily. I returned it to Seiko for regulating three different times, with no improvment. Next, I purchased a Marathon MSAR with their proprietary version of the Sellita 200-1 movement, and not only has that movement proven robust and reliable, it only loses one to two seconds daily on average. I couldn't be happier with my purchase. Thank you Sellita (and of course, Marathon) for a wonderful product, and outstanding value for money spent!

@johnnyboy1586 9 дней назад

I had a seiko sports 100 bought in the early 80s ,super reliable quartz movement and it had the function of going into economy mode went th battery was running low which would show by the second hand moving in 2 second intervals giving you plenty of warning the the battery getting low, in the 40 years of ownership it kept perfect time ans never had to be servest ,past it on to my son and it still keeps perfect time

@JJ-fb1pw Год назад

Great interview, someone who knows their stuff and is not just from a marketing team. Good job Chrono24.

@vdbdg Год назад

Excellent video that sets the record straight on many misconceptions perpetuated by forum cowboys

@lamaludwig1470 Год назад

well said 🙂

@flemmingsorensen5470 Год назад

Spot on 👍👍👍👍👍

@larryc Год назад

I like the update to the sw330. Really enjoy the 56 hour power reserve without sacrificing the 4HZ beat rate! I also agree with him about the quick set date being more useful than a jumping hour hand in day-to-day life for most people.

@donaldneo4317 Год назад

The bread and butter SW200 need a PR upgrade too! 38hrs is terrible in today's standard.

@chriscon8463 Год назад

I’m not transiting time zones frequently, but it’s useful for me to know what time it is in another time zone. An “office GMT” is fine for what I need! I suspect this is the case for half the GMT watch crowd.

@baze3SC Год назад

@@chriscon8463 Yep, plenty of people need to sync with colleagues in a different time zone nowadays. Although a rotating bezel with twelve hour marks on it is sufficient for that purpose. To be absolutely honest though I could do without either cause I just remember the time difference.

@duc996desmo 2 месяца назад

@@donaldneo4317 did't you saw him say its 42/43 hours now?

@superfast30 Год назад

By far the most informative watch related video Ive seen in years. Thank you so much for this!

@flemmingsorensen5470 Год назад

Fantastic !!! Great interview - and what a fantastic company. This gentleman is very open in regards to the technical topics, and equally so on the business topics. Very impressive indeed. I was a Sellita fan before, and now even more so!🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭

@Chrono24Official Год назад

Our pleasure! Don't forget to subscribe to our channel to stay tuned! :)

@milanchristi7939 Год назад

Great interview with great answers. I'm a big Sellita fan. Bang for buck!!

@piotrszmidel Год назад

Good job,great interview👍Would be nice to see Soprod,Ronda and La Joux-Perret too someday.

@Chrono24Official Год назад

Let's see what we can do about that 🙂

@mitchmitchell9588 Год назад

La Joux-Perret please. Citizen is slowly moving then into a very competitive position.

@MartlRS Год назад

And they have quite a interesting history.😅

@tsol9097 10 дней назад

Really great interview - you can reall tell Sabastien really understands his stuff.

@watchreviews4k Год назад

Interesting content. Keep up the good work on your channel. Regards, WR4K.

@alexscharoff5028 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for this fantastic interview! It nice to hear that they are open to supply everybody with movements and spare parts!

@Roddy1965 10 месяцев назад

Openess and transparency, best marketing tool ever. Fantastic interview and much better understand the industry and Sellita.

@juniorjohnson5961 Год назад

I'm glad he spoke about Silicon hairspring a lot of people believe it's better he explains why it's not 👍

@Tribalius Год назад

Amen!

@auang Год назад

As a child, I played with the metal waste from the factory in the backyard of the Certina in Grenchen. all these watch small parts have fired my imagination. i have been wearing a certina ds for 40 years.

@Chrono24Official Год назад

Love this!

@ghengiskoan Год назад

Well done! Very informative despite viewer questions.

@looplop Год назад

Thanks for this! Love these insights!

@davidcrandall4958 Год назад

Great interview!Smart person talking to smart person! I would like more of this kind of content!

@STEVEARABIA1 Год назад

I didn’t know the history of Sellita and ETA. Great interview.

@demetrioskosmas9695 Год назад

Great movements, real workhorses.

@Canteaus Год назад

Amazing interview! This guy was super transparent, knowledgeable, and really working hard to preserve & improve the swiss movement industry! bravo and looking forward to what sellita offers in the future!

@Chrono24Official Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@tiberiuvincze8288 Год назад

Hello, best interview and put Sellita in a new power position !

@stu632 Год назад

Excellent interview and Thomas knows his stuff.

@RaulTibe Год назад

A quality interview with some honest answers. Really liked it : )

@karlh6700 Год назад

Fantastic,eye opening interview,thank you!

@Csibu89 Год назад

Both Balázs and Sébastien have this tendency to be straight to the point, no BS, while still presenting incredible enthusiasm towards watchmaking, just without the sugarcoating. Great interview!

@Andrew-rc3vh Год назад

The whole concept of a mechanical watch in the 21st century is BS. A fool and their money...

@Csibu89 Год назад

@@Andrew-rc3vh i agree and i am still a fan of mechanical watches. It makes no sense from a rational standpoint, but i guess it is more an emotional thing.

@Andrew-rc3vh Год назад

@@Csibu89 De Beers made a fortune out of an emotional thing.

@alexr.3919 Год назад

Fantastic interview, thank you very much

@baze3SC Год назад

Very informative and interesting! Thank you.

@Me-pz5by Год назад

Now I want to buy more watches with Sellita movement 🙂👍

@adrianwright6311 Год назад

Great interview, very interesting to listen to. I also love Sebastian’s shirt, with a cutout for his watch. 😊

@gackerman99 3 месяца назад

man this guy knows his stuff. awesome.

@jeroennishikigoi1164 Год назад

Great episode!!!

@gizmomac1520 Год назад

Good work!! 👏🙌 (Also, I love how the watch makers are wearing a smart watch while assembling the watch hahah)

@thereissomecoolstuff Год назад

Geez, right?...there would be a memo, especially when there are cameras on..

@mr.personal-ity Год назад

They aren't watchmakers though, they're just workers on an assembly line.

@mitchmitchell9588 Год назад

I would rather watch a technical and informative interview (like this) then am interview with an Internet “celebrity” about their watch choices and modeling gigs.

@watchmetwist Год назад

Great video, thank you!

@andrewsamuel368 Год назад

Swiss Teddy Baldassarre?

@Bhatakti_Hawas Год назад

Make a chronograph movement with column wheel and vertical clutch

@lemmontree1 Год назад

Very informative, thank you!

@josephmarucci3528 Год назад

Outstanding

@TheMrFishnDucks Год назад

Awesome video. Keep up the good work.

@davidcrandall4958 Год назад

Amazing!

@FrickedUp 7 месяцев назад

'dilutes the Swiss-ness" is my favourite quote from this video.

@eucitizen78 Год назад

Interesting ,thank you 👍

@wulfgadebusch9586 Год назад

very interesting interview

@f_m_b_watch9182 Год назад

Very interesting 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@jolness1 Год назад

I much prefer the mobile hour hand, especially on a gmt. If I need to change the date, I can spin the hour hand around 2 times. Even if it’s been a couple weeks, it’s still quick.

@massl Год назад

First world problem: Ways of how to set the date 🙈 Still a good interview. Very interesting! :)

@Tribalius Год назад

Hahahhaa 😂

@masterwatch 7 месяцев назад

very interesting, great video.

@backcountrybrian9336 8 месяцев назад

Best quote from the entire video. "Don't go too far, otherwise you'll make a quartz watch..."

@MasterOfWTF Год назад

Anyone know the the model number for the column wheel flyback Chronograph movement he mentioned? Can’t seem to find any info for it.

@pennfootball71 Год назад

What movement caliber number will have a column wheel and flyback chrono ???

@inlandwatchreviews5745 6 месяцев назад

I am getting a watch with a Sellita SW-200-1. I was wondering about the problem with hand winding and the ratchet wheel teeth breaking.

@randombloke10 5 месяцев назад

I’ve had my SW220-1 for 8 years, I hand wind a fair bit more often as the watch is regularly second fiddle to my Apple Watches, the feel of the wind isn’t the greatest but it’s been perfectly reliable 🙂

@ronelljones3327 Год назад

Just purchased a watch with selita sw200-1

@dannysimenauer5745 Год назад

From an engineering/design point of view, what factors prevents Sellita from making movements that run for a full week? Or even run for a month? I know how a watch works, but I am curious to learn what factors prevent the movement from running significantly longer then 62 hours.

@Chrono24Official Год назад

A lot of it comes down to barrel capacity. Watches that can run for that long often have oversized barrels or multiple barrels (inside of rather large watch cases that would be too big for most people).

@johnjames77 Год назад

it is great to hear a Sellita does not want to compete with its customers like so many in the auto parts industry do. With the advent of the internet many companies bit the hand that built them and sold direct to retail customers.

@EvanDempsey Год назад

I liike this guy. He's got moxy. I had an oudated view of Sellita and he changed it.

@gchi247 Год назад

The irony of the employees wearing apple watches 😂

@JasonFerguson17t Год назад

This is 100% on the mark with the GMT function. I won’t buy a GMT if it doesn’t have a quickset date.

@D4nielH Год назад

Next stop; ETA’s factory?

@gusseisern1151 Год назад

Who is wachting this in 2023 ?

@matthewgates4130 9 месяцев назад

5:27 now I love my Islander Republic GMT even more...if u didn't get on boy u missed out!

@dustingaddis2423 Год назад

Also, the question about making their own watches - both Seiko and Citizen are doing what they said "no one else is doing". Both sell movements to other brands and produce their own watches.

@cy9nvs 5 месяцев назад

They definitely didn't solve the issue with teeth breaking on the SW-220 with the .1 version, it's still happening, there are countless examples of that. Although, I think it isn't a big deal and probably mainly comes down to people winding it too quickly and with way too much force.

@jodysilvia2 Год назад

I would be a customer for the jumping hour hand.

@TalkingTimepieces Год назад

One thing he got very wrong was that you have to choose between "home time" (flying local hour hand) and quick-set date. The Tag Heuer Carrera 2 GMT has both, and it isn't the only one. Why didn't he know that, especially considering his position?

@TalkingTimepieces Год назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D5_6kFhq338.html

@torquey88 Год назад

From what I could make out from videos of it on the internet (yours included), that seems to behave just like a 2893, but with the hour hand and the GMT hand interchanged - in the sense that when in crown position 2, turning the crown in one direction changes the date and the opposite changes the hour hand (instead of the GMT), and only in one direction.

@TalkingTimepieces Год назад

@@torquey88 exactly. The local hour changes, and the date changes. It isn't the either-or thing he presents it as.

@chaulmontetsebastien2761 Год назад

Hello, The movement you are mentioning is not a full-fledged home time. A real home time display should be able to be set forward AND backward while simultaneously dragging the date in both directions (see Rolex and Omega). Because the home time indication needs both direction of the crown in position 1, the traditional date quick-setting gets lost. The movement you are mentioning doesn’t work as described and is something between a GMT and home time. The home time indication can only be adjusted forward on this particular movement. If you turn the crown backward it corrects the date only. So if you want to set back the time, you have to make two full turns forward (because of 12/24h) and then adjusted the date manually. So every time you want to set the time backwards you loose the right date and have to make several manipulations … it is not particularly practical and, to the best of my knowledge, the only movement to operate this way.

@TalkingTimepieces Год назад

@@chaulmontetsebastien2761 it has a flying local hour hand. You can try to parse it, but that is the fact. It only goes in one direction to allow a quickset date in the other. You can still set it to local time without hacking the movement.

@notgoodyear7072 Год назад

Sellita, the swiss sweatshop.

@ivan_nagar Год назад

nice interview with Andrew Garfield

@dustingaddis2423 Год назад

The teeth breaking issue has NOT been resolved over 10 years ago. I warrantied a watch earlier this year that had this problem.

@baze3SC Год назад

Are you sure it had SW200-1 and not SW200 stocked from an earlier batch? The movement type is engraved just under the balance wheel (if you have a see-through case).

@dustingaddis2423 Год назад

@@baze3SC Positive. It was in a Christopher Ward Sealander, and it felt gritty when winding it when it was brand new. It was my first 'swiss' movement so I wasn't sure if that feeling was normal or not. Once I sent it back and had it repaired it felt much smoother when winding. The problem may not be as common as it once was, but it's still very common. These movements are far less reliable than a cheap Seiko 4R series movements.

@baze3SC Год назад

@@dustingaddis2423 Interesting, good to know. I've never experienced it myself but it's something to be aware of.

@moes7862 Год назад

Sellita will make the " sonnerie " ?

@MeestroDavid Год назад

"It's eternal . . . as long as you have spare parts"

@KnobCRICK Год назад

I didnt think Seth Green would operate a company like Sellita

@Adam-ut9nt Год назад

Ah...that's why Tissot change from silicium to nivachron. Good move before more and more people complaint on the silicium

@Nefville Год назад

Good interview but I'm disappointed with the answer to the 2824-2 issue. It is still very much a problem, they must know about this. I have personally had 2 SW-200-2s with this issue both bought in the last 3 years. The 2824 movement design it seems to me is faulty, I was avoiding it but now I will avoid it like the plague. And its clones.

@micomrkaic Год назад

I disagree on true GMT. If they made an affordable true GMT I would buy it in a moment, probably more than one. However, the office GMT does nothing for me and whenever I see Sellita GMT, I immediately unplug. I'm sure I'm not alone in this.

@zipitar9018 8 месяцев назад

Seiko 24 and 26 jewels movement is better than sellita 26 jewels , and miyota 9 series better than any super expensive rolex movements

@tomasinacovell4293 Год назад

Hopefully we'll get our silicon parts form Korea or China.

@larsthorwald3338 Год назад

Movement wish list: 100% accuracy everywhere in the world all the time with total autonomy and zero intervention required. ...oh wait. That's my Casio. hahaha

@Tribalius Год назад

Hahahhaa

@JayzBeerz 6 месяцев назад

I’ll take a Japanese movement over any Swiss movement any day.

@peasantrobot Год назад

I have an sw200-1 mechanism, I turn it by balancing it every night... it stopped working because of this - I guess that problematic gear lost her teeth and debris is blocking other gears . The worst mechanism, unworthy of "Switzerland" brand (am ordinary Japanese mechanism NH35A, has no problems turning it by hand). Invicta switched to using Ronda mechanisms.

@Enrico- Год назад

What? Not sure what you said but If you hand-wound your automatic watch everyday the teeth on ratchet wheel will break. You shouldn't do it. It's self-winding watch, get a manual watch if you want to wind it yourself.

@peasantrobot Год назад

@@Enrico- sorry man, it is both manual and automatic, as of its technical specifications. Anyway, if you read well, you'll see that I said that sw200-1 was wound by balancing it, mainly because I knew about its problems. Still, the wheel broke. Sellita admitted that it was a bad design.

@obiyahu8889 Год назад

@@peasantrobot Good enough that even Tudor and Breitling and Tag Huer use it.

@Marty004Cimb Год назад

I have Oris Aquis and Davosa Ternos, both with SW200-1 over 2 years and never had an issue with teeth breaking. And I manually wind them a few turns when they stop.

@JimmieJohn 10 месяцев назад

Should have asked him why you can’t hand wind the P.O.S. Known as the Sellita SW200-1

@zipitar9018 8 месяцев назад

Swiss made is gimmick now, no brass copper movements its steel movements cheap like Japanese chinese movements

@meow.avocadoandhishappylif3848 Год назад

The staff working on mechanical watch wear a iwatch, ridiculous?

@thereissomecoolstuff Год назад

Trump said it best "you're fired!"

@peterdegelaen Год назад

Do you think everyone working at Rolls Royce drives a Rolls Royce?

@thereissomecoolstuff Год назад

@@peterdegelaen they have a keychain at least. It's about appearance. If people notice and comment it's a negative. It is trivial but real. I'd fire them personally, I don't know the labor market there. In America we have 5 million more people here in the last 2 years so lots of non English speaking workers. It's actually 5.5 million.

@peterdegelaen Год назад

@@thereissomecoolstuff I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

@thereissomecoolstuff Год назад

@@peterdegelaen ditto....

@TheJessfletcher17 Год назад

The employee wearing the Apple watch should be fired

@sergeyyatskevitch3617 9 месяцев назад

Good interview, but the movements are not good. The one I got with my Oris Aquis is pretty shitty, actually. After about 3 years I got the dreaded “helicopter rotor”. In my collection, which is mostly TAG Heuer and Omega chronographs, it is the only Sellita-based watch, and it looks like it is the worst.