2004's COSC breakdown

They issued just over one million COSC certificates last year, apparently down 10% from the year before. With Rolex producing an alleged one million watches, it appears almost 400,000 are not COSC.

ROLEX 628,556
OMEGA 226,796
BREITLING 135,423
PANERAI 26,052
CHOPARD 11,511
ULYSSE NARDIN 11,448
TAG HEUER 7,447
ZENITH 5,073
CORUM 4,991
CHANEL 4,832
TIFFANY 2,826
MIDO 2,411
BULGARI 2,315
PAUL PICOT 2,312
LOUIS VUITTON 1,912
EBEL 1,693
INVICTA 1,026
LONGINES 999
All OTHERS obtained fewer than 900 certificates.

[JJ Irani]

Thanks for the heads-up, Johnny.

Mido, for its size, has surprisingly done pretty well for itself.

JJ

Thanks John - good stuff!

[Gedanken]

Great stuff, John - it would be interesting to see the percentage of these manufacturers' outputs that are COSC rated.

[dman]

Interesting numbers for Panerai since they only make around 35,000 watches a year, and the BASE models are not certified due to the lack of seconds hand.

[Dave Knoll]

You don't need a seconds hand to get certified by COSC....plenty of two handed watches have COSC certs.

It's all accomplished using a scale or mark on the fourth wheel.

[padi56]

Originally Posted by Dave Knoll

You don't need a seconds hand to get certified by COSC....plenty of two handed watches have COSC certs.

It's all accomplished using a scale or mark on the fourth wheel.

Well Dave they say you learn something new every day thanks for information

Originally Posted by dman

Interesting numbers for Panerai since they only make around 35,000 watches a year, and the BASE models are not certified due to the lack of seconds hand.

Daren, I've read speculation that Panerai may be stocking up their movement inventory (i.e. getting more certified in a year than they release to the public) so they don't have to worry about having a good supply of COSC movements in the event the ETA supply runs dry. There is also strong speculation (as I'm sure you know) that they will go wholey in-house for movements. Only Senor Bonati knows for sure.

[dman]

Originally Posted by Dave Knoll

You don't need a seconds hand to get certified by COSC....plenty of two handed watches have COSC certs.

It's all accomplished using a scale or mark on the fourth wheel.

Very cool Dave, I did not know that pal!!

[dman]

Originally Posted by Atomic

Daren, I've read speculation that Panerai may be stocking up their movement inventory (i.e. getting more certified in a year than they release to the public) so they don't have to worry about having a good supply of COSC movements in the event the ETA supply runs dry. There is also strong speculation (as I'm sure you know) that they will go wholey in-house for movements. Only Senor Bonati knows for sure.

Great point John, that way they have "parts" for the future too no matter what direction they take.

You are right about Bonati being the only person who knows when they are gonna start that change too.

[Goodwatch]

Originally Posted by Dave Knoll

You don't need a seconds hand to get certified by COSC....plenty of two handed watches have COSC certs.

It's all accomplished using a scale or mark on the fourth wheel.

Can you please name one example. The whole point of of a movement having chronometer specs is not only that the deviation is known and falls in a certain bandwith, but also making it possible to use the piece as a navigational instrument. (E.g. longtitude calculation and that is a bit hard without a second hand ). But I could be completely wrong here of course.


Take care,

Frans.