[anthonybsd]

http://www.sapphytimes.com/movement/ephoto_show.asp?PhotoID=...

This is just "normal" price. For a large production you can get an even larger discount. It's still a cheap movement.

[ljcn]

And that's a standard quartz; the specs say -10 to 20 s/month.

Still ~10x more accurate than a mechanical watch, but not ~200x more accurate as thermocompensated ones are (as mentioned in the message you were replying to).