ling5hk
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Soprod movement in Sarpaneva
I have never heard of Soprod movement. May gurus here enlighten me on the details of Soprod movement which has been housed in Sarpaneva time piece, K1, K2 and K3.
Thank you in advance.
Regards
Ling

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By: MTF : May 4th, 2008-11:06
Soprod is a Swiss manufacturer of movements that supplies ebauches and movement modules to many brands. Soprod’s core business consists of assembling mechanical movements and developing additional modules giving further functionalities to mechanical movem...
Soprod
By: DonCorson : May 4th, 2008-11:38
Soprod is one of those companies that for many decades now have been taking the so-called ébauches from ETA, that is parts kits for a movement from ETA, which they then customize and assemble to a customers wishes. The customization can be decoration, mod...
Sarpaneva Korona
By: ling5hk : May 4th, 2008-17:47
Thanks Don. Your information does clear some doubt. Which means Soprod movement that used by Sarpaneva is in fact an ETA movement which has been supplied to Soprod and further modified and improved by Stephen Sarpaneva. The dial work of Sarpaneva Korona i...
Found this info in my notebook...
By: Kong : May 6th, 2008-01:08
Must have read it some where (during Sept 2007), did not have the reference. These were the pointers I've jotted down: "A10 project was started in 2002. About CHF15M was pumped and 5 years of efforts to have the production version of 'Alternate 10 Movemen...