I think the bottom line is that the "Swiss Made" appellation, watches and movements, is being taken to the £1,000 plus market.
My personal 'passion' with watches is based around them being superb examples of precision engineering packaged as a useful, attractive and wearable item, therefore an acceptable quality mechanical movement is a must. If we want the smaller, independent, lower mark-up brands that are so popular with the WIS community to continue to be available in the future, I believe we have to start accepting that they won't have ETA movements for much longer. If the likes of Fricker are happy to put out watches with these Seagull movements, that's ok with me. As the demand for better finishing and QC grows along with the size of the market as ETA availability shrinks, hopefully the product will respond to meet the markets requirements.