Tudor is now selling its movements (perhaps older news)

[Etschell]

Thoughts?

https://www.fratellowatches.com/norq...-with-kenissi/

"And why not? The movement is great! It’s no secret that Kenissi has strong ties to Tudor (as well as creating some of Chanel’s more exciting calibers). With those kinds of credentials, it is no surprise that Norqain wanted to work with the manufacture; with promising releases like the Norqain Independence 20 watch, it is becoming increasingly obvious why Kenissi decided to green-light the partnership."

https://www.ablogtowatch.com/norqain...-tudor-chanel/

"Founded in 2018, Norqain watches just announced that they are partnering with Kenissi. If you’ll recall, Kenissi is the movement manufacture that is the “industrial arm” of Rolex-owned Tudor and is 20% owned by Chanel. As of now, Norqain has introduced two movements (a three-hand and a GMT) that will be followed up with new watches some time in June."

[Vincent65]

Funny how these watch blog blokes (Rob Nudds/Fratello... Bilal Khan/a blog [not] to watch)
keep saying "manufacture" (which is a verb meaning make something), when they should be writing manufacturer, which is a noun which means the person or company which makes something.

[GBD]

I think it's great that more brands will have access to the 70hr chronometer movement. There's some discussion elsewhere that Kenissi sharing the MT56XX movement will somehow dilute the Tudor brand, but I don't think so. The only thing it really means is that movement is not proprietary to Tudor, but it hasn't been since Kenissi supplied it to Chanel and Breitling.

Norqain will get the GMT movement soon, and one question is whether they'll address the date issue. I'd be reluctant to purchase a Norqain GMT knowing how problematic the movement has been.

[padi56]

Originally Posted by Etschell

Thoughts?

https://www.fratellowatches.com/norq...-with-kenissi/

"And why not? The movement is great! It’s no secret that Kenissi has strong ties to Tudor (as well as creating some of Chanel’s more exciting calibers). With those kinds of credentials, it is no surprise that Norqain wanted to work with the manufacture; with promising releases like the Norqain Independence 20 watch, it is becoming increasingly obvious why Kenissi decided to green-light the partnership."

https://www.ablogtowatch.com/norqain...-tudor-chanel/

"Founded in 2018, Norqain watches just announced that they are partnering with Kenissi. If you’ll recall, Kenissi is the movement manufacture that is the “industrial arm” of Rolex-owned Tudor and is 20% owned by Chanel. As of now, Norqain has introduced two movements (a three-hand and a GMT) that will be followed up with new watches some time in June."

Very very very old news.

[Tools]

It is an expected outcome.

A few years back, ETA proclaimed that they would no longer provide basic movements for non-Swatch manufacturers. Rolex almost immediately bought up Sellita parts and shares, since these are replacements for ETA movements. However, the handwriting was on the wall and Rolex/Tudor began their own enterprise to establish a steady and reliable supply of movements for their own watches. Tudor built up their own industrial base for movements, along with other investors, and named the enterprise "Kenissi".

Recently Chanel bought into 20% of Kenissi, likely to also get out from under the ETA thumb.

Tudor is also building a new manufacturing facility to vacate the joint Rolex/Tudor facility. The new facility will house both Tudor watches and Kenissi movements.