Sellita (Sellita Watch Co. SA) is a

Swiss Swiss may refer to: * the adjectival form of Switzerland * Swiss people Places * Swiss, Missouri * Swiss, North Carolina *Swiss, West Virginia * Swiss, Wisconsin Other uses *Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports *Swiss Internation ...

manufacturer of mechanical

watch A watch is a portable timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person. It is designed to keep a consistent movement despite the motions caused by the person's activities. A wristwatch is designed to be worn around the wrist, attached by ...

movements Movement may refer to: Common uses * Movement (clockwork), the internal mechanism of a timepiece * Motion, commonly referred to as movement Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * "Movement" (short story), a short story by Nancy Fu ...

based in

La Chaux-de-Fonds La Chaux-de-Fonds () is a Swiss city in the canton of Neuchâtel. It is located in the Jura mountains at an altitude of 1000 m, a few kilometers south of the French border. After Geneva, Lausanne and Fribourg, it is the fourth largest city loc ...

in the canton of

Neuchâtel , neighboring_municipalities= Auvernier, Boudry, Chabrey (VD), Colombier, Cressier, Cudrefin (VD), Delley-Portalban (FR), Enges, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Hauterive, Saint-Blaise, Savagnier , twintowns = Aarau (Switzerland), Besançon (France), ...

. Founded in 1950, Sellita operated as one of

ETA Eta (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἦτα ''ē̂ta'' or ell, ήτα ''ita'' ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel . Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative in most dialects, ...

's major outsourced assembly company for their movements until 2003. Since then, it has been developing its own movements based on ETA calibers with expired patent rights and has managed to become one of the main movement manufacturers of the Swiss watchmaking industry.

Movements

Hublot Hublot () is a Swiss luxury watchmaker founded in 1980 by Italian Carlo Crocco. The company operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of the French luxury conglomerate LVMH. History A scion of the Italian Binda Group dynasty, best known for mak ...

, IWC,

Lilienthal Berlin Lilienthal Berlin is a German watch manufacturer based in the German capital Berlin. Lilienthal Berlin was founded in 2015 by Jacques Colman and Michael Gilli. The company name refers to the German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal. The Lilientha ...

, Oris,

Raymond Weil Raymond Weil Genève () is a Swiss luxury watchmaker, founded in 1976 in Geneva. It is a family company founded by Raymond Weil and Simone Bédat. Simone Bedat and her son left the company in 1996 to form Bedat_&_Co Bedat & Co is a Swiss watc ...

Sinn In the philosophy of language, the distinction between sense and reference was an idea of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege in 1892 (in his paper "On Sense and Reference"; German: "Über Sinn und Bedeutung"), reflecting the ...

, and

TAG Heuer TAG Heuer S.A. ( ) is a Swiss luxury watchmaker that designs, manufactures and markets watches and fashion accessories, as well as eyewear and mobile phones manufactured under license by other companies and carrying the TAG Heuer brand name. Th ...

are among the brands that utilize Sellita's movements or slightly modified versions to power their watches. * SW 200/215/400 (based on

2824-2 and ETA 2836-2) * SW 300/1000 (based on ETA 2892-2) * SW 500/510/600 (based on

Valjoux Valjoux (for ''Vallée de Joux'', "Joux Valley") is a Swiss Made, Swiss manufacturer of mechanical watch movement (clockwork), movements. It is known primarily for chronograph ébauche movements that are used in a number of mid- to high-range mec ...

7750 a.k.a. ETA 7750)

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