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Re: Making a watch from scratch

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As for obsession with in-house movements, I like to observe to the obsessed that the most in-house brand of them all are... ...Seiko. They even make their own lubricants. (Wearing a nifty Seiko as I type this, but also own a handful of other Japanese, Swiss and German watches.)

Seikos are extremely underrated. Also most people don't know, but they even make watches as intricate as the most expensive Swiss brands. Like this one which retails for a cool $365,000 USD: https://www.grand-seiko.com/us-en/collections/slgt005g Or you can get a nice everyday mechanical watch for as little as a couple hundred.

Seikos are great. I just wish they'd put spring drive into a lot of their cheaper watches.

The majority of expensive watches, even handmade, are only so expensive because of brand...or the fact that the case is solid fucking platinum/gold. That's cheating!

Re: Making a watch from scratch

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> For some of the components it seems like a significant sacrifice in quality to make it yourself. I appreciate people can make their own, but I also think the obsession some folks have with in house movements is misplaced. At a certain level, watches aren't about quality. Only exclusivity.

I would argue that pretty much any mechanical watch isn't about quality as a timepiece these days. Quartz watches work really well for keeping the time, honestly better than any mechanical watch ever will. But that's ok - I still love my mechanical watches out of sheer appreciation for the craftsmanship and engineering that goes into such things. They have their own appeal.

NASA still specify the best analog watch they tested (twice because when congress found out it wasn’t American they made them do it again only to get the same result).

If you are in a critical situation and surrounded by electronics an analog watch can survive conditions like power failure and temp electronics cannot.

Irrelevant to business people but as a safety feature and emergency backup something fully mechanical and accurate could save your life.

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