| Brand: | Claro | 
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| Height: | 5.73 mm | |
| Jewels: | 18 | |
| Reserve: | 36 hours | |
| Frequency: | 21600 A/h | |
| Winding: | Automatic, Bi-Directional Automatic Winding | |
| Diameter: | 25.60 mm (11.5 ligne) | |
| Complications: | Date, Instant Date Change, Quick Date Correction | |
| Hands: | Central Hour Hand, Central Minute Hand, Central Seconds Hand, Date Window at 3:00 | |
| Production: – 2009 | |||||||||||
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Cal. CL-888 was produced by Claro Watch SA (Semag). It used a Chinese Sea-Gull ST1612 ebauche but was re-manufactured in Switzerland so it could be sold as Swiss Made. Production ended in 2009 once Claro began producing Cal. VB9832. A teardown suggested that it used a Swiss-made hairspring and was refinished with a lighter finish and an extra tension spring on the indirect seconds wheel.
According to the company, “CLARO Watch SA takes new parts and then completely re-works, cleans, measures, sets and tests each part before adding our 100% Swiss-made content. The full assembly is completed, tested and calibrated in our wholly owned factory in Bellinzona.” Claro also claimed that this movement was “re-engineer(ed) an existing calibre that was readily available from the market” and that it was a “long-established calibre from the Far East that was originally developed by a Swiss group.” However, since the ST1612 is based on the Miyota 8215, this is not accurate.