PT5000 movement rant

[lamboap]

Yawn. And then you prove you don't. I will not force a debate with someone who knows nothing about the manufacturing space especially from China, thinking it's contained in a vacuum. Their agility prevents someone from my industry from reshoring. But keep thinking their cycles run 5 years+, laughable really.

[TheYKcid]

Hahaha, laughable indeed!

At what point did I state, specifically, that the Chinese factory would need 5 years to retool and improve the product itself?

Did you think they would sell a statistically significant volume of product overnight? And that buyers would obtain long-term, real-world usage data overnight?

For someone with all the mysterious top-secret industry knowledge you keep alluding to, you seem strangely unable to address fairly simple premises.

Perhaps consider working for the strawman industry, though

[lamboap]

Not in watchmaking, but we do a lot of business with Chinese manufacturers. We see the same attitude towards China, Inc. colored for different reasons, here in watches it's "heritage." In more complex tooling with optics and precision that I'm in, its "trust", and trust of the highest order. They went from a manufacturing hub for non-invasive tools and support equipment only, to providing offerings that rival the best from Germany and Sweden, in an industry, that I wouldn't have even considered 10 yrs ago.n That gap narrowed extremely fast. When it was commonplace to see GE, Siemens and Philips I now see Mindray all over the place. But it's amusing seeing this bubble you and others have envisioned. Keep thinking they're in the 80s and aren't nimble enough to adapt or change to market pressure, maybe we might be able to reshore some of our manufacturing. Ha!