The ETA 2824-2. The base caliber of 80% of the Swiss Watchmaking Industry.

The ETA 2824-2. The base caliber of 80% of the Swiss Watchmaking Industry. Ebauches, S.A. Became the company, ETA in 1983, from a series of consolidations that happened out of the “Quartz Crisis” in Switzerland. Mechanical watches were quickly becoming phased out due to the much less expensive, and, by some accounts, “funner” quartz watches. SWATCH was the Swiss brand to fully capitalize on the Quartz watch phenomenon and made many different unique and fun…