What time is it? Watches and horology

But one the manufacturer can't supply ATM because of ETA's restrictive practice. If they supply less than ten per cent of their order for movements, Steinhart are up the creek until they do the decent thing and fit seiko innards to their watches. (The prolonged patience of customers who have Steinharts on order is, finally, causing the glacial movement of WUS threads to speed up.) If ETA want to take the ball away, good luck and good bye. I won't be looking for another watch with one of their movements again.

I read that ETA just shipped Steinhart 40 movements from their order of 400 without explanation and with a significant delay. They seem to be keeping Tudor and others supplied though. I dont know the facts but it sounds pretty shitty to me.

Id go with an alternative movement asap if I were Gunter Steinhart. Patience will run out very soon. I guess the problem is that he might have a load of cases that take eta movements premade...