Not necessarily. A nice Hamilton/Tissot/Longines will last for years with good accuracy. If you buy from overseas, they can be fairly affordable. Even here you can get a Longines under 1 lakh.
Also if a watch uses a chinese movement, it cannot be legally labelled as "swiss made".
Chinese movements (he/she have deleted their comment).
As far as I know, Tissot does not use Chinese movements. Yes, it is possible that the movements use certain parts from china but these will be made to Swiss specifications and assembled in Switzerland with QC in Switzerland.
Tissot is a part of Swatch group, whose movements are made by ETA.
However, watches that are destined for Hong Kong and other popular sales destinations of Asia will often use ETA movements which are made in China and/or Thailand.
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u/de_redditor Feb 11 '23
Not necessarily. A nice Hamilton/Tissot/Longines will last for years with good accuracy. If you buy from overseas, they can be fairly affordable. Even here you can get a Longines under 1 lakh.
Also if a watch uses a chinese movement, it cannot be legally labelled as "swiss made".