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. So I'm just gonna wear it without worrying. It's not expensive to replace anyway
. And from what I've read the Unitas clones are fairly reliable.
Cheers, Sedi

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yes they are use a lot, parnis for one use them by the bucket load and none of my mate's that have bought them have meationed them having issue so yeah and as you say cheap and cheerful one of the reasons I bought and use them a no worry watch for not a lot of money did a thread on them ages back and don't remember any bad feeling towards them due to movements .
the complaints are more on the homage side most of the time so guess someone might have just talked them down because they are cheap of course they are not qc to the same quality of swiss maybe ... but not heard terrible things about it .. it's just a cheap movement thats in a lot of the pilots out there 
but still usable
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My guess (no more) is that the movements are unlikely to be un-oiled, but that oiling might be variable.
Eddie Platts had a couple of models with Chinese movements, and I think I remember Roland Kemmner advising that they were re-oiled before assembly. I can’t swear to the details because it’s some time ago.
On the other hand, small producers have sometimes used Swiss movements that may have been sitting around for years, and there was no saying what state they were in either. A watchmaker once told me that one of my watches, with an ETA movement, had wear consistent with not being serviced for decades, rather than a couple of years from new.
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