Quote:
Originally Posted by tony20009
For some reason folks always want a manufacture watch, but they don't usually want to spend $8K+ for one. I can understand that so here is a listing of brands that I can think of and that have at least one model that costs less than $6K. Some of these brands have many models below that price point.
I've emboldened some that I think many folks have never heard of but that are seriously worth looking at. I've put question marks next to the one's I'm not 100% sure they have an in-house movement that is also sanely price, but IIRC, they do.
- Seiko - almost every watch they make is in-house, quartz and automatic, but a few aren't
- Citizen (all)
- Nomos
- Alpina just a couple models are in-house
- Damasko
- Frederique Constant - Alpina's dressy brother but more in-house models too
- Universal Geneve - They do a micro rotor automatic similar to PP's but not as elaborately finished. Of course, it's also not as elaborately priced. All the same, not a lot of folks do automatics that allow one to also see much of the movement.
- Tag - three in-house calibres
- Omega
- Seagull
- Wempe
- Pequignet
- Prim
- Raketa (??)
- Chronoswiss (?)
- Dornbluth (?)
- JLC
- Cartier
- Rolex (Air King & Oyster Perpetual)
- Zeitwinkel
- Paul Gerber (http://ahci.watchprosite.com/show-fo...aker-in-zrich/) - I should be more clear....they do a lot of work on a base ETA and it comes out being far more than your typical dressed up 2824, so...here they are. Their own 100% in house model is more like 3x $6K.
I know there are more that are escaping me right now...
All the best. |
You seem to have missed one of the most highly regarded value in house movements ... A Zenith El Primero 3 hand can certainly be had grey market for less than $6k...And the Elite can be had I believe from an AD for that.