Davosa Caliber DAV 3032

Davosa caliber DAV 3032 is an automatic watch movement GMT (second time zone) complication. Watches with this movement are considered caller or office style GMTs because the 24 hour GMT hand can be set while the main (local) time stays in place.

Davosa’s official description of this movement:

“DAV 3032 automatic winding | bidirectional winding ball bearing rotor, quick date correction, second stop device, Ø 25.6 mm, H 4.1 mm, 21 jewels, 28.800 A/h | power reserve 50-56h | hours, minutes, central second, date, GMT second time zone.” –Source

Although, on the same product page which the excerpt above was found, Davosa shows a picture of a DAV 3050 (ETA 7750) chronograph movement:

Editor’s Commentary: It’s astonishing how many watch brands take advantage of the ignorance of the horology community with laziness and smoke and mirrors marketing. When talking about a specific caliber on a product page, it seems that the right thing to do is to show a picture of the correct movement – not a more intricate and complicated movement that isn’t used in the watch being described. There should be no excuse for showing an entirely different movement, especially when the brand has all of the watches at their disposal. How difficult is it to schedule a photoshoot for each piece and arrange the content on the website accordingly? We’re talking about companies that we trust to assemble a $1,590 product, we should also be able to trust their ability to represent the product accurately.

Base Caliber:

It appears that Davosa is not transparent about the base caliber they are using for the DAV 3032. From the official description on their site, it sounds like an ETA 2893-2 with 21 jewels, however, the power reserve of 50-56 hours sounds like a Sellita SW330-1 with the Optimization Barrel installed. The caliber confusion comes from the fact that the SW330-1 has 25 jewels, not 21.

On the brand’s official movement page, Davosa says this about the movements found in their watches:

“All DAV calibers are made in Switzerland by well-known movement manufacturers such as ETA, Sellita, Soprod and others. Every movement receives our utmost attention in terms of both materials and quality. Precision, reliability and level of performance are the key features of all our products.” –Source

Adding Soprod to the list of possibilities opens it up to being a Soprod C125, which is another GMT option with the same dimensions as the DAV 3032/ETA 2893-2/SW330-1. Yet, the C125 also has 25 jewels.

Since the brand does not provide any movement images on their product pages, the mystery continues. A mystery that any serious watch enthusiast should take into consideration when spending money on a watch at any price point.

Additional Resources:

• More Davosa watch movements